Ball of Yarn

Breaking changes

• Internal JavaScript functions used by the extension have been significantly changed.
• JavaScript initialization procedure has been further refined.

Features

• Optimized the underlying code handling insertion and execution of R code. (#118)
• Implemented a custom JSON format for code cell data and option sharing between Quarto and webR. (#120)
• Redesigned non-interactive cells to provide improved reliability and visual cues. (#120)
• Interactive cells now have a toolbar above them that provides three actions: Run Code, Start Over, and Copy. (#91)
• Initial code cell option support (#104, #117, #125, #151):
  • quarto-webr: context and autorun.
  • Attributes: label and classes.
  • Figures: fig-cap, dpi, fig-width, fig-height, out-width, & out-height.
  • Cell output: warning/message, results, and output
• Added repos document meta option key to specify custom package repositories containing compiled R WASM Packages not found in the main webR repository (#124, #132).

Changes

• Added new CSS IDs governing the webR initialization state. (#110)
• Added shim that overrides install.packages() with webr::install() through webr::shim_install() this requires webR v0.2.2 to be in use. (#122)
• Added the keyboard shortcut for Run Code -- Shift + Enter -- to mouseover text for the Run Code button. (#91)
• Allow {webr-r} code cell to propagate into Quarto markdown formats for hugo-md. (#150, h/t @ClaudiuPapasteri)
• Updated the version of the MonacoEditor from 0.43.0 to 0.45.0. (#130)
• Updated the version of the FontAwesome from 6.4.2 to 6.5.1. (#131)

Bugfixes

• Prevented HTML output being shown as HTML by replacing HTML characters like <, >, &, etc., with their corresponding HTML entities. (#115, h/t @gvelasq)
• Fixed display of text found after a code cell in RevealJS appearing off the page. (#102, #106)
• Fixed setup and output contexts not syncing with values found in packages. (#114, #105, #88)
• Fixed unexpected input error appearing spuriously on Windows machines by enforcing the end-of-line (EOL) character to be LF (\n) and, thus preventing CRLF (\r\n) from entering the picture. (#94 huge thank you and h/t to @ute. Thanks also to @alexCardazzi for initial reporting).

Documentation

• New section discussing code cell options in {webr-r} cells.
• New section with demos of the Quarto extension's features. (#128)
• Added a demo on non-interactive code cells. (#128)
• Added a demo on using custom repositories to install R WASM package binaries. (#128)
• Added a demo for showing initial code cell option support. (#141)
• Added a demo for showing autorunning interactive code cells.
• Modified the RevealJS presentation YAML to include an option to disable the webR status message header (#110)
• Updated blog posts on community examples page (#135)
• Updated Hiding and Executing Code
  to use panel sets when displaying output from {quarto-webr} and showing the underlying code.
• Minor documentation tweaks.

Deployment

• Added an instructive error message regarding whether template files are missing. (#107)