News for Package RProtoBuf

Changes in version 0.2.6 (2012-10-04)

• Applied several more patches by Murray to

  • correct '_' and '__' mismatches in wrapper calls

  • update a few manual pages for style, and add examples

  • fix a bug where NAs were silently treated as TRUE for logical/bool types

  • fix a bug that caused crashes when adding vectors to optional fields

  • fix bugs in readASCII that returned empty protocol buffers when the file or connection could not be opened

  • distinguish between non-existant and not-set fieldswith has() by returning NULL in the former case.

  • fix a bug that caused non-deterministic behavior when setting a repeated message field in a protobuf to a single Message.

  • add unit tests for all of the above.

• Added Murray to Authors: field in DESCRIPTION

• Removed old and unconvincing example on RProtoBuf for storage and serialization in an imagined HighFrequencyFinance context

Changes in version 0.2.5 (2012-08-08)

• Applied patches by Murray to

  • correctly deal with nested Protocol Buffer definitions, and also add new unit test for this

  • test a a protocol buffer for missing required fields before serializing it, also add a unit test

  • add a small stylistic fix and examples to the 'add.Rd' manual page

• Moved inst/doc/ to vignettes/ per newer CRAN Policy

Changes in version 0.2.4 (2012-05-15)

• Applied several patches kindly supplied by Murray Stokely to

  • properly work with repeated strings

  • correct C++ function naming in a few instances

  • add an example of ascii export/import of messages

• Suppport g++-4.7 and stricter #include file checking by adding unistd

• Made small improvements to the startup code

Changes in version 0.2.3 (2011-04-12)

• Protect UINT64 and INT64 with '#ifdef RCPP_HAS_LONG_LONG' which itself is valid with either g++ <= 4.4, or newer versions if the -std=c++0x is used

• The documentation Makefile now uses the $R_HOME environment variable

• The documentation Makefile no longer calls clean in the all target

Changes in version 0.2.2 (2011-01-11)

• Applied two patches by Murray Stokely which

  • correct a typo preventing some functions from being called,

  • add bounds checking in call to google protobuf library,

  • add a new name method

  • add a tiny unit test for the above

  • add more graceful error handling

  • add support for import patterns other than .proto$,

  • add simple reading file that does not exist (exception) test

  • add simple repeated field unit test

Changes in version 0.2.1 (2010-10-18)

• Support for raw bytes added thanks to a patch by Koert Kuipers

Changes in version 0.2.0 (2010-09-10)

• Second release with numerous internal changes made possible by changes in Rcpp

Changes in version 0.1-0 (2010-02-01)

• Initial CRAN release