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watcher 0.1.5

CRAN release: 2025-12-01

  • Fixed issue on Windows where watching with a latency < 1 caused high CPU usage (#32, thanks @RichardHooijmaijers).

watcher 0.1.4

CRAN release: 2025-07-16

  • Watcher can now use a system ‘libfswatch’ installed in a non-standard location (#28).

watcher 0.1.3

CRAN release: 2025-04-09

  • watcher() now accepts a vector for the path argument to monitor multiple files or directories (#16).

  • Fixes Windows bi-arch source builds for R <= 4.1 using rtools40 and earlier (#19).

watcher 0.1.2

CRAN release: 2025-02-25

  • Adds $get_path() and $is_running() methods to the Watcher R6 class.
    • Use these rather than the fields path and running, as they have been made private.

watcher 0.1.1

CRAN release: 2025-02-10

  • Updates bundled ‘libfswatch’ source package to 1.19.0-dev.

watcher 0.1.0

CRAN release: 2025-02-06

  • Initial CRAN release.