A new (mostly maintenance) release 0.2.3 of RcppTOML is now on CRAN.
TOMLis a file format that is most suitable for configurations, as it is meant to be edited by humans but read by computers. It emphasizes strong readability for humans while at the same time supporting strong typing as well as immediate and clear error reports. On small typos you get parse errors, rather than silently corrupted garbage. Much preferable to any and all of XML, JSON or YAML – though sadly these may be too ubiquitous now. TOML is frequently being used with the projects such as the Hugo static blog compiler, or the Cargo system of Crates (aka “packages”) for the Rust language.
This release was tickled by another CRAN request: just like yesterday’s and the RcppDate release two days ago, it responds to the esoteric ‘whitespace in literal operator’ depreceation warning. We alerted upstream too.
The short summary of changes follows.
Changes in version 0.2.3 (2025-03-08)
Correct the minimum version of Rcpp to 1.0.8 (Walter Somerville)
The package now uses Authors@R as mandated by CRAN
Updated 'whitespace in literal' issue upsetting clang++-20
Continuous integration updates including simpler r-ci setup
Courtesy of my CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report for this release. For questions, suggestions, or issues please use the issue tracker at the GitHub repo.
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