A new version of the RcppAPT
package arrived on CRAN earlier
today. RcppAPT
connects R to the C++ library behind the awesome apt,
apt-get, apt-cache, … commands (and their
cache) which powering Debian, Ubuntu and other derivative
distributions.
RcppAPT
allows you to query the (Debian or Ubuntu) package dependency graph at
will, with build-dependencies (if you have deb-src
entries), reverse dependencies, and all other goodies. See the vignette
and examples for illustrations.
This release moves the C++ compilation standard from C++11 to C++17. I had removed the setting for C++11 last year as compilation ‘by compiler default’ worked well enough. But the version at CRAN still carried, which started to lead to build failures on Debian unstable so it was time for an update. And rather than implicitly relying on C++17 as selected by the last two R releases, we made it explicit. Otherwise a few of the regular package and repository updates have been made, but no new code or features were added The NEWS entries follow.
Changes in version 0.0.10 (2024-11-29)
Package maintenance updating continuous integration script versions as well as coverage link from README, and switching to Authors@R
C++ compilation standards updated to C++17 to comply with libapt-pkg
Courtesy of my CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report for this release. A bit more information about the package is available here as well as at the GitHub repo. If you like this or other open-source work I do, you can now sponsor me at GitHub.
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