Next CRAN release

[mjskay]

(this issue is never closed, just re-used for the next release)

• check for existing problems on CRAN checks for ggdist
• double-check CRAN policies
• check package for large files: output from devtools::build() is less than 5MB
• remove any Remotes in DESCRIPTION and downgrade those packages back to CRAN versions
• update R and all packages
  • devtools::install_dev_deps()
  • update.packages(ask = FALSE)
• bump version and date: usethis::use_version()
  • in DESCRIPTION
  • in NEWS
• devtools::check(remote = TRUE, manual = TRUE)
• check tests on {tidybayes} manually
• revdepcheck::revdep_check(num_workers = 6)
  • if any packages time out, add them back with revdep_add() then run with a large timeout, e.g. revdepcheck::revdep_check(num_workers = 6, timeout = as.difftime(500, units = "mins"))
• update NEWS
• spelling::spell_check_package()
  • spelling::update_wordlist()
• urlchecker::url_check()
  • on failures, urlchecker::url_update()
• lintr::lint_package()
• devtools::document()
• devtools::install()
• rebuild README
• pkgdown::clean_site()
• pkgdown::build_site(run_dont_run = TRUE)
• devtools::check(remote = TRUE, manual = TRUE)
  • R-release, on Windows
  • Whatever platforms on Github actions
• devtools::check_win_release()
• devtools::check_win_devel()
• devtools::check_win_oldrelease()
• write cran-comments.md
• devtools::release()

After package goes live on CRAN:

• merge dev onto master and cran
• tag release
• double check zenodo entry
  • authors
  • license (GPL >= 3)
  • title (ggdist: Visualizations of distributions and uncertainty)
  • NSF award 2126598
  • related VIS paper: is published in 10.1109/TVCG.2023.3327195
• revdepcheck::revdep_reset()
• bump to a new dev version on dev branch
• skeet

Template loosely based on r-lib/usethis#338