update NEWS.md and download.Rmd

Author: Miachol

DESCRIPTION

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Version: 0.3.6
 Authors@R: person("Jianfeng", "Li", email = "lee_jianfeng@sjtu.edu.cn", role = c("aut", "cre"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-2349-208X"))
 Maintainer: Jianfeng Li <lee_jianfeng@sjtu.edu.cn>
 Description:
-    Can be used to integrate massive bioinformatics tool/script and database. It provides the R functions and Shiny web application. Hundreds of bioinformatics tool/script and database have been included.
+    Can be used to integrate massive bioinformatics resources, such as tool/script and database. It provides the R functions and Shiny web application. Hundreds of bioinformatics tool/script and database have been included.
 Depends:
     R (>= 3.3.0)
 URL: https://github.com/JhuangLab/BioInstaller

NEWS.md

@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+# BioInstaller 0.3.6
+
+## New features
+
+* add copy\_plugins and copy\_configs functions to restore 
+  the plugins and config
+* use fromJSON to access the github APIs, 
+  which can avoid the SSL problem on windows platform
+
 # BioInstaller 0.3.5.7000
 
 ## Minor bugs fixed

vignettes/BioInstaller.Rmd

@@ -130,8 +130,11 @@ Tips:
 
 ```{r}
 download.dir <- sprintf('%s/github_demo_local', tempdir())
+tryCatch({
 install.bioinfo('github_demo', download.dir = download.dir, download.only = TRUE, verbose = FALSE)
-install.bioinfo('github_demo', local.source = download.dir)
+install.bioinfo('github_demo', local.source = download.dir)}, error = function(e) {
+  message("Please check the SSL or connection with GitHub")
+})
 
 download.dir <- sprintf('%s/demo_local', tempdir())
 install.bioinfo('demo_2', download.dir = download.dir, download.only = TRUE, verbose = FALSE)

vignettes/download.Rmd

@@ -30,6 +30,17 @@ CRAN: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=BioInstaller
 
 ## JhuangLab host
 
+### BioInstaller 0.3.6
+
+Download [here](http://bioinfo.rjh.com.cn/download/bioinstaller/bioinstaller/v0.3.6.tar.gz).
+
+#### New features
+
+* add copy\_plugins and copy\_configs functions to restore 
+  the plugins and config
+* use fromJSON to access the github APIs, 
+  which can avoid the SSL problem on windows platform
+
 ### v0.3.5.7000
 
 Download [here](http://bioinfo.rjh.com.cn/download/bioinstaller/bioinstaller/v0.3.5.7000.tar.gz).