CRAN 0.8.0 (#747)

* chore: prepare v0.8.0 CRAN release

Bump version to 0.8.0, rename the NEWS development heading, and
update cran-comments.md for this release. The revdep section is a
placeholder until the revdep-v0.8.0 workflow finishes.

* docs: add v0.8.0 revdep results to cran-comments

* chore: exclude tests from CRAN tarball

* fix: namespace utils::type.convert in array_plot

Clears the R CMD check NOTE about an undefined global function,
introduced with tinyplot.array() in #746.

* submission note and revert rbuildignore

Author: grantmcdermott

CRAN-SUBMISSION

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-Version: 0.7.0
-Date: 2026-07-03 02:03:54 UTC
-SHA: 421110cd2d7a1d282ec6d81f195a50de4d2ce752
+Version: 0.8.0
+Date: 2026-09-27 22:46:58 UTC
+SHA: 77fa3d7cbcfd3cfd6a286984e783161ee67fcc83

DESCRIPTION

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Package: tinyplot
 Type: Package
 Title: Lightweight Extension of the Base R Graphics System
-Version: 0.7.0.99
-Date: 2026-07-02
+Version: 0.8.0
+Date: 2026-09-27
 Authors@R: 
   c(
     person(

NEWS.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ _If you are viewing this file on CRAN, please check the
 [latest NEWS](https://grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/NEWS.html) on our website
 where the formatting is also better._
 
-## Development version
+## v0.8.0
 
 ### Breaking changes
 

R/tinyplot.matrix.R

@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ array_plot = function(x, y = NULL, type = NULL, legend = NULL, facet = NULL,
       lvls = if (is.null(lvls)) {
         seq_len(dims[1])
       } else {
-        type.convert(lvls, as.is = TRUE)
+        utils::type.convert(lvls, as.is = TRUE)
       }
       by = if (is.numeric(lvls)) {
         lvls[as.vector(slice.index(x, 1))]

cran-comments.md

@@ -1,12 +1,18 @@
 ## Overview
 
-**tinyplot** v0.7.0 is a feature release. It brings major updates to our theming
-logic and aesthetic stylings, several new plot types and `tinyplot.*` methods,
-and various other enhancements and bug fixes. See NEWS.md for the full list of
-changes.
+**tinyplot** v0.8.0 is a feature release. It adds several new plot types
+(hexbin, tile, heatmap, sina), a new `tinyplot.array()` method, substantial
+facet enhancements, new arguments for ordering and labelling categorical
+variables, performance improvements, and many bug fixes. See NEWS.md for the
+full list of changes.
+
+This release includes one minor breaking change: line types now order
+categorical `x` data by factor levels, rather than order of appearance, for
+consistency with other plot types. The old behaviour remains available via
+an explicit argument.
 
 ## Test environments
-macOS (local)
+Arch Linux (local)
 GitHub Actions (ubuntu-24.04): release, devel
 Win Builder
 
@@ -16,7 +22,7 @@ Win Builder
 
 ## Reverse dependency checks
 
-We ran reverse-dependency checks on all 12 CRAN revdeps. All packages that
+We ran reverse-dependency checks on all 16 CRAN revdeps. All packages that
 could be checked showed no status change from the current CRAN version of
 tinyplot. One package, 'RTMB', failed to install in our CI environment under
 both the old and new versions of tinyplot (identical ERROR, unrelated to this
@@ -27,4 +33,4 @@ P.S. We continue to run a comprehensive test suite comprising hundreds of test
 snapshots (i.e., SVG images) as part of our CI development workflow. See:
 https://github.com/grantmcdermott/tinyplot/tree/main/inst/tinytest/_tinysnapshot
 However, we have removed these test snapshots from our CRAN submission to reduce
-the size of of install target and stay within CRAN's recommend size limits.
+the size of the install target and stay within CRAN's recommended size limits.