0.4.12

Changes in RProtoBuf version 0.4.12 (2018-07-11)

• Recursive serialization of sublists returning themselves is now recognised (Jeffrey Shen in #38 fixing #37)

• New function readProtoFiles2 to be consistent with protoc (Siddhartha Bagaria in #40 fixixing #39)

• Update Windows binary library used (Maciej Lach and Jeroen Ooms in #42 and follow-up commits)

• New unit tests for new functionality (Siddhartha Bagaria in #45)

Release 0.4.10

Changes in RProtoBuf version 0.4.10 (2017-08-13)

• More careful operation in deserializer checking for a valid class attribute (Jeffey Shen in #29 fixing #28)

• At the request of CRAN, correct one .Call() argument to PACKAGE=; update routine registration accordingly

Release 0.4.9

Changes in RProtoBuf version 0.4.9 (2017-03-06)

• A new file init.c was added with calls to R_registerRoutines() and R_useDynamicSymbols()

• Symbol registration is enabled in useDynLib

• Several missing PACKAGE= arguments were added to the corresponding .Call invocations

• Two (internal) C++ functions were renamed with suffix _cpp to disambiguate them from R functions with the same name

• All of above were part of #26

• Some editing corrections were made to the introductory vignette (David Kretch in #25)

• The 'configure.ac' file was updated, and renamed from the older converntion 'configure.in', along with 'src/Makevars'. (PR #24 fixing #23)

Release 0.4.8

Changes in RProtoBuf version 0.4.8 (2017-01-17)

• Windows builds now use the proto3 library as well (PR #21 fixing #20)

Release 0.4.7

Changes in RProtoBuf version 0.4.7 (2016-10-27)

• At the request of CRAN, two documentation instances referring to the Omegehat repository were updated to http://omeghat.net

Release 0.4.6

Changes in RProtoBuf version 0.4.6 (2016-09-08)

• Support for serializing zero-length objects was added (PR #18 addressing #13)

• S4 objects are natively encoded (also PR #18)

• The vignette based on the JSS paper no longer uses a macro available only with the R-devel version of jss.cls, and hence builds on all R versions

Release 0.4.5

Changes in RProtoBuf version 0.4.5 (2016-08-29)

• Support for version 3 of the Protcol Buffers API

• Added 'syntax = "proto2";' to all proto files (PR #17)

• Updated Travis CI script to test against both versions 2 and 3 using custom-built .deb packages of version 3 (PR #16)

• Improved build system with support for custom CXXFLAGS (Craig Radcliffe in PR #15)

Release 0.4.4

Changes in RProtoBuf version 0.4.4 (2016-07-10)

• New vignette based on JSS publication (v71 i02)

• Some documentation enhancements were made, as well as other minor cleanups to file modes and operations

• Unit-test vignette no longer writes to /tmp per CRAN request

• The new Windows toolchain (based on g++ 4.9.*) is supported

Release 0.4.3

Changes in RProtoBuf version 0.4.3 (2015-08-25)

• Declare additional imports from methods in NAMESPACE.

• Travis CI tests now run faster as all CRAN dependencies are installed as binaries.

• The tools/winlibs.R script now tests for R (< 3.3.0) before calling the (soon-to-be phased out) setInternet2() function.

• Several small edits were made to DESCRIPTION to clarify library dependencies, provide additonal references and conform to now-current R packaging standards.

Release 0.4.2

Changes in RProtoBuf version 0.4.2 (2014-12-10)

• Address changes suggested by anonymous reviewers for our Journal of Statistical Software submission.

• Make Descriptor and EnumDescriptor objects subsettable with "[[".

• Add length() method for Descriptor objects.

• Add names() method for Message, Descriptor, and EnumDescriptor objects.

• Clarify order of returned list for descriptor objects in as.list documentation.

• Correct the definition of as.list for EnumDescriptors to return a proper list instead of a named vector.

• Update the default print methods to use cat() with fill=TRUE instead of show() to eliminate the confusing [1] since the classes in RProtoBuf are not vectorized.

• Add support for serializing function, language, and environment objects by falling back to R's native serialization with serialize_pb and unserialize_pb to make it easy to serialize into a Protocol Buffer all of the more than 100 datasets which come with R.

• Use normalizePath instead of creating a temporary file with file.create when getting absolute path names.

• Add unit tests for all of the above.