Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

cli 3.3.0

CRAN release: 2022-04-25

• style_hyperlink() no longer breaks if the env varible VTE_VERSION is of the form \d{4}, i.e., 4 consecutive numbers (#441, @michaelchirico)

• ansi_*() functions support ANSI hyperlinks again (#444).

• Turning off ANSI colors via the cli.num_colors option or the R_CLI_NUM_COLORS or the NO_COLOR environment variable now also turns off ANSI hyperlinks (#447).

• symbol now only has two variants: UTF-8 and ASCII. There are no special variants for RStudio and Windows RGui any more (#424).

cli 3.2.0

CRAN release: 2022-02-14

Breaking change

• The cli_theme_dark option is now known as cli.theme_dark, to be consistent with all other cli option names (#380).

Other changes

• The preferred names of the S3 clases ansi_string, ansi_style, boxx, rule and tree now have cli_ prefix: cli_ansi_string, etc. This will help avoiding name conflicts with other packages eventually, but for now the old names are kept as well, for compatibility.

• cli_abort() has been updated to work nicely with rlang 1.0. The default call and backtrace soft-truncation are set to .envir (which itself is set to the immediate caller of cli_abort() by default).

  Line formatting now happens lazily at display time via rlang::cnd_message() (which is called by the conditionMessage() method for rlang errors).

• New hash_sha256() function to calculate SHA-256 hashes. New hash_raw_*(), hash_obj_*() and hash_file_*() functions to calculate various hashes of raw vectors, R objects and files.

• You can use the new cli.default_num_colors option to set the default number of ANSI colors, only if ANSI support is otherwise detected. See the details in the manual of num_ansi_colors().

• You can set the new ESS_BACKGROUND_MODE environment variable to dark to indicate dark mode.

• cli now handles quotes and comment characters better in the semantion cli_*() functions that perform glue string interpolation (#370).

cli 3.1.1

CRAN release: 2022-01-20

• style_hyperlink() gains a params= argument (#384).

cli 3.1.0

CRAN release: 2021-10-27

Breaking changes

• The C progress bar API now uses double instead of int as the data type of the progress units (#335).

New features

• Several improvements and changes in the ansi_*() functions:

  • most ansi_*() functions are now implemented in C and they are much faster (#316).
  • they handle NA values better.
  • many functions now use UTF-8 graphemes by default instead of code points. E.g. ansi_nchar() counts graphemes, etc.
  • they convert their input to UTF-8 and always return UTF-8 encoded strings.
  • new function ansi_simplify() to remove superfluous ANSI tags.
  • new function ansi_html() to convert ANSI-highlighted strings to HTML.
  • ansi_has_any() and ansi_strip() now have sgr and csi arguments to look for SGR tags, CSI tags, or both.

• New functions that handle UTF-8 encoded strings correctly: utf8_graphemes(), utf8_nchar(), utf8_substr().

• Support for palettes, including a colorblind friendly palette. See ?ansi_palettes for details.

• True color support: num_ansi_colors() now detects terminals with 24 bit color support, and make_ansi_style() uses the exact RGB colors on these terminals (#208).

• The new col_br_*() and bg_br_() functions create bright versions of eight base ANSI colors (#327).

• New function code_highlight() to syntax highlight R code. It supports several themes out of the box, see code_theme_list() (#348).

• New functions for hashing: hash_animal(), hash_emoji() and hash_md5().

• New diff_chr() and diff_str() functions to calculate the difference of character vectors and letters of strings.

Smaller improvements

• Progress bars with clear = FALSE now print the last, completed, state properly.

• The progress bar for Shiny apps now handles output from cli_progress_output().

• Progress variables in C format_done strings work correctly now (#337).

• cli_dl() now works with an empty description, and gives a better error for invalid input (#347).

• rule() is now works better if the labels have ANSI markup.

• cli_spark objects now have format() and print() methods.

• cli_process_done() now does not error without a process (#351).

• ANSI markup is now supported in RStudio jobs (#353).

• The lack of ANSI support is now again correctly detected if there is an active sink() (#366).

cli 3.0.1

CRAN release: 2021-07-17

• ansi_strtrim() now correctly keeps NA values (#309).

• format_inline() now uses the correct environment (@rundel, #314).

cli 3.0.0

CRAN release: 2021-06-30

• New functions for progress bars, please see the new articles at https://cli.r-lib.org/articles/ for details.

• New cli_abort(), cli_warn() and cli_inform() functions, to throw errors with cli pluralization and styling.

• New format_inline() function to format a cli string without emitting it (#278).

cli 2.5.0

CRAN release: 2021-04-26

• New style_no_*() functions to locally undo styling. New col_none() and bg_none() functions to locally undo text color and background color.

• It is now possible to undo text and background color in a theme, by setting them to NULL or "none".

• cli_memo() was renamed to cli_bullets(), as it is by default formatted as a bullet list (#250).

• New ansi_toupper(), ansi_tolower and ansi_chartr() functions, the ANSI styling aware variants of toupper(), tolower() and chartr() (#248).

• New test_that_cli() helper function to write testthat tests for cli output.

• tree() now does not produce warnings for tibbles (#238).

• New inline style: .cls to format class names, e.g. "{.var fit} must be an {.cls lm} object".

cli 2.4.0

CRAN release: 2021-04-05

• New cli_memo() function to create a list of items or tasks.

• New cli::cli() function to create a single cli message from multiple cli calls (#170).

• cli now highlights weird names, e.g. path names with leading or trailing space (#227).

• Styling is fixed at several places. In particular, nested lists should be now formatted better (#221).

• New spark_bar() and spark_line() functions to draw small bar or line charts.

cli 2.3.1

CRAN release: 2021-02-23

• ANSI color support detection works correctly now in older RStudio, and also on older R versions.

• cli_h1(), cli_h2() and cli_h3() now work with multiple glue substitutions (#218).

cli 2.3.0

CRAN release: 2021-01-31

• boxx() now correctly calculates the width of the box for non-ASCII characters.

• New ansi_trimws() and ansi_strwrap() functions, they are similar to trimws() and strwrap() but work on ANSI strings.

• New ansi_columns() function to format ANSI strings in multiple columns.

• ansi_substr(), ansi_substring(), ansi_strsplit(), ansi_align() now always return cli_ansi_string objects.

• ansi_nchar(), ansi_align(), ansi_strtrim() and the new ansi_strwrap() as well handle wide Unicode correctly, according to their display width.

• boxx() can now add headers and footers to boxes.

cli 2.2.0

CRAN release: 2020-11-20

• New style_hyperlink() function to add hyperlinks, on terminals that support them.

• cli_format_method() now works properly in knitr, and other environments that catch message conditions (#159).

• ANSI strings created by col_*, bg_* and style_* now also add the character class to the result. This fixes issues with code that expect character objects.

• New functions to manipulate ANSI strings: ansi_aling(), ansi_has_any(), ansi_nchar(), ansi_regex(), ansi_strip(), ansi_strsplit(), ansi_substr(), ansi_substring().

cli 2.1.0

CRAN release: 2020-10-12

• New cli_vec() function to allow easier formatting of collapsed vectors. It is now also possible to use styling to set the collapsing parameters (#129).

• New pluralize() function to perform pluralization without generating cli output (#155).

• console_width() works better now in RStudio, and also in terminals.

• Styling of verbatim text work properly now (#147, @tzakharko).

• Messages (i.e. message conditions) coming from cli now have the cliMessage class, so you can easily suppress them without suppressing other messages (#156).

• cli prints the output to stderr() now, if there is an output or message sink. This is to make interactive and non-interactive sessions consistent (#153).

• Pluralization works correctly now if the last alternative is the empty string (#158).

• cli now caches the result of the dark background detection in iTerm on macOS. Reload cli to delete the cache (#131).

• The is_dynamic_tty(), is_ansi_tty() and ansi_hide_cursor() and related functions now default to the "auto" stream, which is automatically selected to be either stdout() or stderr(). See the manual for details (#144).

• The default theme now quotes file names, paths, email addresses if they don’t start or end with an alphanumeric character or a slash. This is to make it easier to spot names that start or end with a space (#167).

• make_spinner() clears the line properly now (@tzakharko, #164).

• Semantic cli functions now automatically replace Unicode non-breaking space characters (\u00a0) with regular space characters, right before output. They are still used to calculate the line breaks, but not outputted (#161).

• Progress bars now respect is_dynamic_tty() and do not output \r when this is false (@jimhester, #177)

cli 2.0.2

CRAN release: 2020-02-28

• The status bar now does not simplify multiple spaces by a single space.

• cli now does not crash if it fails to detect whether the RStudio theme is a dark theme (#138).

• cli now works better with wide Unicode characters, for example emojis. In particular, a status bar containing emojis is cleared properly (#133).

• The status bar now does not flicker when updated, in terminals (#135).

cli 2.0.1

CRAN release: 2020-01-08

• Symbols (symbol$*) are now correctly printed in RStudio on Windows (#124).

• The default theme for cli_code() output looks better now, especially in RStudio (#123).

• Remove spurious newline after a cli_process_start() was cleared manually, and also at the end of the function.

• Use Oxford comma when listing 3 or more items (@jonocarroll, #128).

cli 2.0.0

CRAN release: 2019-12-09

Semantic command line interface tools

cli 2.0.0 has a new set of functions that help creating a CLI using a set of higher level elements: headings, paragraphs, lists, alerts, code blocks, etc. The formatting of all elements can be customized via themes. See the “Building a semantic CLI” article on the package web site: https://cli.r-lib.org

Bug fixes:

• Fix a bug in is_dynamic_tty(), setting R_CLI_DYNAMIC="FALSE" now properly turns dynamic tty off (#70).

cli 1.1.0

CRAN release: 2019-03-19

• cli has now functions to add ANSI styles to text. These use the crayon package internally, and provide a simpler interface. See the col_*, bg_*, style_* and also the make_ansi_style() and combine_ansi_styles() functions (#51).

• New is_dynamic_tty() function detects if \r should be used for a stream (#62).

• New is_ansi_tty() function detects if ANSI control sequences can be used for a stream.

• New ansi_hide_cursor(), ansi_show_cursor() and ansi_with_hidden_cursor() functions to hide and show the cursor in terminals.

• New make_spinner() function helps integrating spinners into your functions.

• Now symbol always uses ASCII symbols when the cli.unicode option is set to FALSE.

cli 1.0.0

CRAN release: 2017-11-05

First public release.