Changelog • tugboat

tugboat 0.1.5

CRAN release: 2025-11-10

Resolves #17. This was a Windows-specific issue where RStudio would lock down the .Rproj file, causing docker buildx build to fail.
Adds a verbose argument to build(). This will print the full build call that is being executed. This can potentially be helpful when debugging build errors.
Resolves #16. This provides slightly more efficient Binder builds and handles build errors more cleanly.

CRAN release: 2025-10-31

Adds preliminary Binder support. See the new binderize() function and its corresponding documentation.
Adds a new argument optimize_pak = TRUE to the create() function. This argument should almost never need to be set to FALSE, but in some cases our method of optimizing package installation with pak can fail, in which case setting optimize_pak = FALSE reverts to the older, more fail-proof method and can alleviate those issues.

CRAN release: 2025-09-27

Added better support for binaries via pak. Still some limitations when using less common Linux distributions (e.g. Alpine) or older distributions (e.g. Debian 11). However, for up-to-date Debian and Ubuntu distributions, this should be fairly seemless and should result in potentially huge installation speedups. See PPM documentation and related GitHub issues for some light bedtime reading on this subject.

Added argument verbose to the tugboat::create() function. If verbose = TRUE, the resulting Dockerfile will be printed to the R console.

CRAN release: 2024-12-17

In tugboat::build() the default value for the build_context is now build_context = here::here() instead of build_context = dirname(dockerfile). This resolves a potential issue where, if the user saves the Dockerfile in a different directory than the build context, tugboat::build() incorrectly infers the build context as the directory containing the Dockerfile. Now tugboat::build() will infer the build context as the current project directory regardless of the Dockerfile location. As always, the user can explicitly specify both of these arguments to override the default values.
tugboat::create() will now execute renv::install() before renv::snapshot() when running in non-interactive mode. This resolves the issue where renv::snapshot() won’t snapshot packages that are not installed when being run non-interactively, thus potentially leaving essential packages out of the Docker image.
tugboat no longer relies on the dockerfiler package. This allows support for a much wider range of base images and minimizes the dependencies for tugboat.

CRAN release: 2024-12-09