A new release 0.2.14 of RcppCCTZ is now on CRAN, in Debian and built for r2u.
RcppCCTZ uses Rcpp to bring CCTZ to R. CCTZ is a C++ library for translating between absolute and civil times using the rules of a time zone. In fact, it is two libraries. One for dealing with civil time: human-readable dates and times, and one for converting between between absolute and civil times via time zones. And while CCTZ is made by Google(rs), it is not an official Google product. The RcppCCTZ page has a few usage examples and details. This package was the first CRAN package to use CCTZ; by now several others packages (four the last time we counted) include its sources too. Not ideal, but beyond our control.
This version updates to a new upstream release, and brings some small local edits. CRAN and R-devel were stumbled over us still mentioning C++11 in SystemRequirements (yes, this package is old enough for that to have mattered once). As that is a false positive—the package compiles well under any recent standard—we removed the mention. The key changes since the last CRAN release are summarised below.
Changes in version 0.2.14 (2026-01-08)
Courtesy of my CRANberries, there is a diffstat report relative to to the previous version. More details are at the RcppCCTZ page; code, issue tickets etc at the GitHub repository.
This post by Dirk Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box blog. If you like this or other open-source work I do, you can sponsor me at GitHub.
Version 0.0.24 of RcppSpdlog arrived on CRAN today, has been been uploaded to Debian, and also been built for r2u. This follows an upstream release on Sunday which we incorporated immediately, but CRAN was still closed for the winter break until yesterday. RcppSpdlog bundles spdlog, a wonderful header-only C++ logging library with all the bells and whistles you would want that was written by Gabi Melman, and also includes fmt by Victor Zverovich. You can learn more at the nice package documention site.
This release updates the code to the version 1.17.0 of spdlog which was released yesterday morning, and includes version 12.1.0 of fmt. No other changes besides tweaks to the documentation site (that was updated to using altdoc last release) have been made.
The NEWS entry for this release follows.
Changes in RcppSpdlog version 0.0.24 (2026-01-07)
- Upgraded to upstream release spdlog 1.17.0 (including fmt 12.1.0)
Courtesy of my CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report detailing changes. More detailed information is on the RcppSpdlog page, or the package documention site.
This post by Dirk Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box blog. If you like this or other open-source work I do, you can sponsor me at GitHub.