A new release of the inline package got to CRAN today marking the first release in three and half years. inline facilitates writing code in-line in simple string expressions or short files. The package was used quite extensively by Rcpp in the very early 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 was tickled by changing in r-devel just this week, and
the corresponding ‘please fix or else’ email I received this morning.
R_NO_REMAP is now the default in r-devel, and while we had
already converted most (old-style) calls into the API to using the now
mandatory Rf_ prefix, the package contained few remaining
cases in examples as well as one in code generation. The release also
contains a helpful contributed PR making an error message a little
clearer, plus several small and common maintenance changed around
continuous integration, package layout and the repository.
The NEWS extract follows and details the changes some
more.
Changes in inline version 0.3.20 (2024-11-10)
Error message formatting is improved for
compileCode(Alexis Derumigny in #25)Switch to using Authors@R, other general packaging maintenance for continuous integration and repository
Use
Rf_in a handful of cases as R-devel now mandates it
Thanks to my CRANberries, you can also look at a diff to the previous release Questions, comments etc should go to the rcpp-devel mailing list off the R-Forge page. Bugs reports are welcome at the GitHub issue tracker as well (where one can also search among open or closed issues).
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