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Perform post-CRAN-release routine tasks

Source: R/github.R
post_release.Rd

After a CRAN release is accepted, commit and tag the release, bump the package version to the next patch dev version, prepend a new header to NEWS.md, push to the remote repository, and create a GitHub release with the news items of this version.

Usage

post_release()

Details

The version number X.Y is extracted from the Version field in DESCRIPTION. For example, if the current version is 0.58, the repo will be tagged as v0.58. The patch version is then bumped to 0.58.1, and a new header is prepended to NEWS.md.