release 1.7.1 to sync with BioC (#223)

closes #203

.github/CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ Your input is deeply valued, whether an issue, a pull request, or even feedback,
 
 [👶 Getting started](#getting-started)
 
-[📔 Code of Conduct](#code-of-conduct)
-
 [🗃 License](#license)
 
 [📜 Issues](#issues)
@@ -26,10 +24,6 @@ Your input is deeply valued, whether an issue, a pull request, or even feedback,
 
 Please refer the project [documentation][docs] for a brief introduction. Please also see other [articles][articles] within the project documentation for additional information.
 
-## Code of Conduct
-
-A [Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) governs this project. Participants and contributors are expected to follow the rules outlined therein.
-
 ## License
 
 All your contributions will be covered by this project's [license][license].

.github/workflows/check.yaml

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ jobs:
     secrets:
       REPO_GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.REPO_GITHUB_TOKEN }}
     with:
-      enable-bioccheck: true
+      enable-bioccheck: false
   coverage:
     name: Coverage 📔
     uses: insightsengineering/r.pkg.template/.github/workflows/test-coverage.yaml@main

DESCRIPTION

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: hermes
 Title: Preprocessing, analyzing, and reporting of RNA-seq data
-Version: 1.0.1.9023
+Version: 1.7.1
 Date: 2024-02-13
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Daniel", "Sabanés Bové", , "daniel.sabanes_bove@roche.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ URL: https://insightsengineering.github.io/hermes/
 BugReports: https://github.com/insightsengineering/hermes/issues
 Depends:
     ggfortify,
-    R (>= 3.5),
+    R (>= 4.1),
     SummarizedExperiment (>= 1.16)
 Imports:
     assertthat,

NEWS.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# hermes 1.0.1.9023
+# hermes 1.7.1
 
 ### Enhancements
 * New plotting function `draw_heatmap` to produce heatmaps of (normalized) counts.
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 * The utility function `df_cols_to_factor` now also converts existing factors to having explicit missing levels.
 * Version bump on `forcats` dependency.
 * Removed `ggplot2` deprecation warning `..count..`. 
+
 # hermes 1.0.1
 
 ### Enhancements