R: Increment package version

use_version {usethis} | R Documentation

## Increment package version

### Description

`use_version()` increments the "Version" field in `DESCRIPTION`, adds a new heading to `NEWS.md` (if it exists), and commits those changes (if package uses Git).

`use_dev_version()` increments to a development version, e.g. from 1.0.0 to 1.0.0.9000. If the existing version is already a development version with four components, it does nothing. Thin wrapper around `use_version()`.

### Usage

    use_version(which = NULL)

    use_dev_version()

### Arguments

`which` | A string specifying which level to increment, one of: "major", "minor", "patch", "dev". If `NULL`, user can choose interactively.

### See Also

The version section of R Packages.

### Examples

    ## Not run:
    ## for interactive selection, do this:
    use_version()

    ## request a specific type of increment
    use_version("minor")
    use_dev_version()

    ## End(Not run)

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