A new release of the inline package got to CRAN today, following and further updating the recent update from earlier in the month. inline facilitates writing code in-line in simple string expressions or short files. The package was used quite extensively by Rcpp in the days before Rcpp Attributes arrived on the scene providing an even better alternative for its use cases. inline is still used by rstan and a number of other packages.
This release builds on and extends the work of the recent 0.3.18 release and tweaks some of the test. We cannot fully test all platforms used by CRAN so some times iterations such as this one are needed. The package was uploaded a few days ago, but it sometimes takes a few days to clarify changes over email to the CRAN maintainers whose work is still greatly appreciated.
The NEWS
extract follows and details the changes some more.
Changes in inline version 0.3.19 (2021-05-25)
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A new release of the inline package got to CRAN today. inline facilitates writing code in-line in simple string expressions or short files. The package was used quite extensively by Rcpp in the days before Rcpp Attributes arrived on the scene proving an even better alternative for its use cases. inline is still used by rstan and a number of other packages.
Johannes Ranke, who uses and stresses inline via his package mkin, updated the loading/unloading of DLLs which, following updates in R-devel, was failing some tests. As luck will have it, this new version appears to still fail on two of the platforms we do not actually have easy access to so another version may be coming “shortly”.
See below for a detailed list of changes extracted from the NEWS
file.
Changes in inline version 0.3.18 (2021-05-17)
Courtesy of my CRANberries, there is a comparison to the previous release.
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A new release of the inline package arrived on CRAN this evening and has already been shipped to Debian as well. inline facilitates writing code in-line in simple string expressions or short files. The package was used quite extensively by Rcpp in the days before Rcpp Attributes arrived on the scene proving an even better alternative for its use cases. inline is still use by rstan and a number of other packages.
One of those other packages is mkin, and its author Johannes Ranke overhauled the saving and re-loading of C functions part with a really well-done set of contributions. In the process we also added unit testing via the lovely tinytest, and changed to continuous integration setup to r-ci.
See below for a detailed list of changes extracted from the NEWS
file.
Changes in inline version 0.3.17 (2020-11-30)
Unit testing is now supported via tinytest (Johannes in #15 addressing #14).
CI was updated to use focal and run.sh from r-ci on Travis and GitHub Actions (Dirk)
The writing and reading of compiled code was refactored and extended (Johannes in #16 fixing #13).
Some minor problems related to CRAN checks and tests were corrected (Johannes and Dirk in #17, Johannes in #18, #19, #20).
Small stylistic updates have been applied to some R and Rd files (Dirk).
Courtesy of my CRANberries, there is a comparison to the previous release.
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A new minor release of the inline package just arrived on CRAN. inline facilitates writing code in-line in simple string expressions or short files. The package is mature and stable, and can be considered to be in maintenance mode: Rcpp used it extensively in the vrey early days before Rcpp Attributes provided an even better alternative. Seveal other package still rely on inline.
One of these package is rstan, and Ben Goodrich updated our use of system()
to system2()
allowing for better error diagnostics. We also did a bit of standard maintenance to Travis CI and the README.md file.
See below for a detailed list of changes extracted from the NEWS
file.
Changes in inline version 0.3.16 (2020-09-06)
Maintenance updates to README.md standardizing badges (Dirk).
Maintenance update to Travis CI setup (Dirk).
Switch to using
system2()
for better error diagnostics (Ben Goodrich in #12).
Courtesy of CRANberries, there is a comparison to the previous release.
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A maintenance release of the inline package arrived on CRAN today. inline facilitates writing code in-line in simple string expressions or short files. The package is mature and in maintenance mode: Rcpp used it greatly for several years but then moved on to Rcpp Attributes so we have a much limited need for extensions to inline. But a number of other package have a hard dependence on it, so we do of course look after it as part of the open source social contract (which is a name I just made up, but you get the idea...)
This release was triggered by a (as usual very reasonable) CRAN request to update the per-package manual page which had become stale. We now use Rd macros, you can see the diff for just that file at GitHub; I also include it below. My pkgKitten package-creation helper uses the same scheme, I wholeheartedly recommend it -- as the diff shows, it makes things a lot simpler.
Some other changes reflect both two user-contributed pull request, as well as standard minor package update issues. See below for a detailed list of changes extracted from the NEWS
file.
Changes in inline version 0.3.15 (2018-05-18)
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The inline package facilitates writing code in-line in simple string expressions or short files. The package is mature and in maintenance mode: Rcpp used it greatly for several years but then moved on to Rcpp Attributes so we have a much limited need for extensions to inline.
But we now have a new inline version 0.3.14. It brings both a few minor code updates since the last release in 2013, but also new extensions to both support Fortran better (for several flavours including f95) and to make working with dynamic library files easier. These were contributed by long-time R author Karline Soetaert who thereby became a package co-author. Also, the package moved to GitHub sometime last year and now lives in this repo.
See below for a detailed list of changes extracted from the NEWS
file.
Changes in inline version 0.3.14 (2015-04-11)
Removed call to
Rcpp::RcppLdFlags()
which is no longer neededWith move of repository to GitHub, added a
.travis.yml
file and corresponding entry in.Rbuildignore
Replaced calls to
require()
with calls torequireNamespace()
; also updated one callMuch improved support for Fortran and Fortran95 thanks to Karline Soetaert who became a package co-author
New helper functions
writeDynLib
andreadDynLib
as well as new methodscode
(also by Karline)
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Changes in inline version 0.3.13 (2013-08-08)
Applied contributed patch by Mikhail Umorin which corrects
cfunction()
in the case of alist
of signature and body arguments.
Courtesy of CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report for the most recent release. A few more details are available at the R-Forge page.
package.skeleton()
. The complete NEWS entry is below.
Changes in inline version 0.3.12 (2013-06-12)
Align
package.skeleton
with the R-devel version of the function which no longer has aNAMESPACE
argument.Remove copy of LGPL in source archive as
R CMD check
now complains about it. License status continues to be specified in fileDESCRIPTION
.
Courtesy of CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report for the most recent release. A few more details are available at the R-Forge page.
Changes in inline version 0.3.11 (2013-02-26)
Fix bug in
cfunction
for.C
convention with raw vectors.Correct
cfunction
to use.Platform$dynlib.ext
as the file extension for the library file (unless on Windows).Allow
rcpp
wrapper to pass another plugin (as eg RcppArmadillo)Changes in inline version 0.3.10 (2012-10-03)
getDynLib()
error message corrected as suggested by Yasir SuhailAdded
rcpp()
wrapper forcxxfunction()
which setsplugin="Rcpp"
Converted NEWS to NEWS.Rd
New maintainer, after having coordinated releases (along with Romain) since 0.3.5 in June 2010
Changes in inline version 0.3.9 (2012-10-02)
Uncoordinating hijacking of package by CRAN maintainers with a single word change in
cfunction.R
to prevent an error under an unreleased version of R
Courtesy of CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report for the most recent release. A few more details are available at the R-Forge page.
This version adds an internal performance enhancement which is obtained by making due with fewer reads. The short NEWS file entry follows:
0.3.8 2010-12-07 o faster cfunction and cxxfunction by loading and resolving the routine at "compile" time
It fixes a minor bug: when package.skeleton()
was called to
convert one or more functions created with this package into a package, the
corner case of just a single submitted function failed. This is now corrected.
Otherwise this release is unchanged from the previous release 0.3.6 from
August.
This is some ways a continuation of the 0.3.4 release I had made in December. That release had opened the door for the wide use of inline in our Rcpp package. And just how Rcpp has grown, we now have needs beyond the initial change. See the post on Romain's blog for details, but in a nutshell we are now gaining
Last but not least, our thanks to Oleg Sklyar for letting us extend his amazing inline package for use by Rcpp.