NEWS

periscope2 0.3.0 (2025-09-04)

Added new module ?downloadableReactTable based on reactable package and downloadFile module

Added openxlsx2 support while keeping openxlsx to support legacy apps and backwards compatibility. writexl package is used as last resort.
Updated ?logViewerOutput module to display log data using ?downloadableReactTable.
Added loglevel filtering according to level chosen- Added loglevel filtering according to level chosen
Added new feature to ?downloadFile module to control whether row names are to be written for tabular data.

Updated set_app_parameters method documentation to displayed html tags correctly
Updated package documentation to fix docType deprecation warning
Updated logger module internal documentation

Re-factored header layout to be more flexible with menu items
Updated modules default values
downloadableTable module server parameters "filenameroot" can now support character, reactive expression or a function to return file name
Introduced load_announcements method to create announcement alert at predefined generated app ui div
Deprecated title parameter in set_app_parameters, use periscope2::add_ui_header(title) instead

Hide download button if downloaddatafxn or downloadtypes are empty for downloadableTable module
Hide download button if downloadfxns or downloadtypes are empty for downloadablePlot module
Capitalized left tooltip text

Introduced application theme configuration file generator RStudio add-in
Enabled full usage of bootstrap4 variables customization in periscope_style.yaml (refer to vignette("migrate_to_v0_2_0", package = "periscope2"))

Allowed header to have navbar menu
Renamed createAlert method to be createPSAlert to avoid confusion with bs4Dash::createAlert (refer to vignette("migrate_to_v0_2_0", package = "periscope2"))
Display alert with status icon correctly when there is no alert title
Allowed html tags inside tooltip function

Used shinyWidgets::show_alert to display application info
Relocated Announcements and header alerts bar to be above navbar instead of inside it
Updated sidebars related CSS to avoid CX z-index issues
Updated sample app default theme colors to improve accessibility

Removed operator ":::" usage from documentation examples
- Formatted documentation examples to have less blank spaces and be human readable at the same time as much as possible

DESCRIPTION file changes:
- Applied CRAN review notes for listed packages names in title and description fields
- Rephrased "Description" Field and added references to mentioned APIs
Package documentation changes:
- Updated different functions documentations with runnable example
Package code changes:
- Refactored any global assignment "<<-" usage, no code is modifying the global environment
- Refactored installed.packages function usage and used find.package function