This patch release of workflowr includes minor improvements, updated documentation, bug fixes, and lots of internal refactoring.

Minor improvements

• Workflowr functions check if the working directory exists (idea from@pcarbo,#185)

• wflow_use_github() can now create repositories for GitHub organizations using the new argumentorganization. However, GitLab Groups should still be specified with the argumentusername forwflow_use_gitlab() (bug report from@stephens999,#186)

• Any workflowr function that prompts for user input will continue to re-prompt until valid input has been entered (or canceled by hitting the keyEsc) (idea from@pcarbo)

• All functions that commit to the Git repository first check for the availability of the Git variables user.name and user.email (either global or local), which are required for creating a commit (#85)

• The workflowr icon is displayed in browser tabs of workflowr websites (idea from@pcarbo)

Updated documentation

• Document that GitLab.com provides private repositories with access control to the source code repository and the website (#187)

• Update URL to RStudio-specific instructions for installing pandoc (bug report from@PietrH,#190)

• Document in the FAQ vignette how to include an external image using an absolute URL to the image hosted on another website (idea from@JiaxiangBU,#159)

• Document how to embed Shiny apps withknitr::include_app() andshinyapps.io (idea from@rsimon64,#130)

• Update the FAQ on including external images to account for the breaking change inknitr::include_graphics() introduced in knitr version 1.28 (bug report from@ditordccaa,#103)

• Add FAQ entry on how to use a Git hosting site that uses the HTTP protocol (idea from@antass,#163)

Bug fixes

• Fix Windows-specific bug that caused the table of past versions to be missing from the workflowr report (bug introduced in version 1.5.0)

Internal refactoring

• Internal refactoring for increased speed and improved error handling of input arguments

• Check for class withinherits() (#189)

• Switch to use pandoc option--include-in-header to insert workflowr-specific CSS and other metadata (surprisingly--include-before-body works fine)