CRAN 0.5.0

pander 0.5.0 (2014-10-27)

This is a major release with 200+ new commits since last version: v0.3.8...v0.5.0

Special thanks goes to Roman Tsegelskyi, who worked hard on various
parts of the package in Google Summer of Code 2014.

New features:

• no need to specify the asis option in knitr chunks any more when calling pander
• show Pandoc command on error for easier debugging in document conversion
• supporting tables with more than 3 dimensions by converting those to 2D with ftable
• optionally keep line breaks inside of cells (keep.line.breaks)
• optionally remove any markup from the table (plain.ascii)
• optionally do not highlight rownames (emphasize.rownames)
• flexible column width of tables
• Pandoc reference class updates on enabling the new features of the package

New classes supported by the pander generic S3 method:

• CrossTable
• ts
• formula
• coxph
• zoo
• lme
• aovlist
• sessionInfo
• mtable
• survfit
• stat.table
• smooth.spline
• clogit
• rlm
• function
• microbenchmark

Updates:

• dual licensing the package with AGPLv3 and OSL based on user requrest
• defaults to cairo graphics device if available
• removed the pandoc alias for pander to avoid conflict with knitr pkg
• replayPlot workaround for distributed R instances
• partial Rcpp rewrite of pandoc.table for increased performance

Fixes:

• avoid stacking of markup characters in helper functions
• remove dummy image files on Windows (#57)
• simple and rmarkdown tables cannot be split (#60)
• fix Windows path issues when looking for Pandoc
• p function does not fail any more on NULL
• POSIXltx typo