We’re pleased to announce the release of quarto-webr version 0.3.7! This release brings a number of new features, bug fixes, and documentation updates to the extension. Most notably, we’ve added a lock feature so that only one code cell runs at a time, preventing simultaneous execution conflicts. Additionally, we’ve added a visual spinning indicator to emphasize what code cell is currently running or what package is being installed. We’ve further improved documentation and deployment processes to make it easier to use the extension.
For more details on the changes, please see the news entry below
quarto-webr news file entry for version 0.3.7 (2023-09-24)
Features
- Added a Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) to ensure that only one code cell runs at a time, preventing simultaneous execution conflicts.
- With this enhancement, you can now enjoy smoother and more predictable execution of your code, without interference from concurrently running code cells.
- Added a visual spinning indicator to emphasize what code cell is currently running. (#64, #17)
- Improved status updates about installing R packages specified in the document’s
packagekey. (#68) - Fully supported
pagerevent types. (#58)- With this update, looking at R help documentation for a function is now possible.
Bugfixes
Documentation
- Added an
examples/directory containing examples for HTML Documents, Books, and Websites. (#53) - Added a documentation page that contains the extension updates and release dates.
- Added an FAQ page covering questions from posit::conf(2023). (#56)
Deployment
- Switched from Quarto’s publishing action to individually rendering projects, merging output, and, then, publishing. (#73)
- By using a custom publish action, we can retain a single repository with nested quarto projects (e.g. A website project that also contains a book.)