A new maintenance release 0.4.23 of RProtoBuf arrived on CRAN earlier today, about one year after the previous update. RProtoBuf provides R with bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers (“ProtoBuf”) data encoding and serialization library used and released by Google, and deployed very widely in numerous projects as a language and operating-system agnostic protocol.
This release brings a number of contributed PRs which are truly
appreciate. As the package dates back fifteen+ years, some code corners
can be crufty which was addressed in several PRs, as were two updates
for ongoing changes / new releases of ProtoBuf itself. I also
made the usual changes one does to continuous integrations, README
badges and URL as well as correcting one issue the
checkbashism script complained about.
The following section from the NEWS.Rd file has full details.
Changes in RProtoBuf version 0.4.23 (2022-12-13)
More robust tests using
toTextFormat()(Xufei Tan in #99 addressing #98)Various standard packaging updates to CI and badges (Dirk)
Improvements to string construction in error messages (Michael Chirico in #102 and #103)
Accommodate ProtoBuf 26.x and later (Matteo Gianella in #104)
Accommodate ProtoBuf 6.30.9 and later (Lev Kandel in #106)
Correct
bashismissues inconfigure.ac(Dirk)
Thanks to my CRANberries, there is a diff to the previous release. The RProtoBuf page has copies of the (older) package vignette, the ‘quick’ overview vignette, and the pre-print of our JSS paper. Questions, comments etc should go to the GitHub issue tracker off the GitHub repo.
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