update docs + news

Author: mllg

NEWS.md

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
   User scripts might need to explicitly attach `data.table` via `library()` now.
 * Fixes for `ClusterFunctionsMulticore`.
 * Removed a workaround for `system2()` for R-devel (to be released as R-4.0.0).
+* New configuration option `compress` to select the compression algorithm (passed down to `saveRDS()`).
 
 # batchtools 0.9.11
 

R/Registry.R

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 #'   \item{\code{temp.dir}:}{Path to directory to use for temporary registries.}
 #'   \item{\code{sleep}:}{Custom sleep function. See \code{\link{waitForJobs}}.}
 #'   \item{\code{expire.after}:}{Number of iterations before treating jobs as expired in \code{\link{waitForJobs}}.}
+#'   \item{\code{compress}:}{Compression algorithm to use via \code{\link{saveRDS}}.}
 #' }
 #'
 #' @param file.dir [\code{character(1)}]\cr