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Thanks to two patches by Murray Stokely, we
have a nice new minor release 0.2.2 of
RProtoBuf
out on
CRAN.
RProtoBuf
provides
GNU R
bindings for
the
Google Protobuf data encoding
library used and released by Google.
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The NEWS file entry follows below:
0.2.2 2011-01-11
o 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
And courtesy of
CRANberries, here is
the
diff to the previous release 0.2.1:
ChangeLog | 35 DESCRIPTION | 8 R/00classes.R | 11 R/internals.R | 7 R/wrapper_EnumDescriptor.R | 6 inst/NEWS | 12 inst/THANKS |only inst/doc/Makefile | 4 inst/doc/RProtoBuf-quickref.pdf |binary inst/doc/RProtoBuf-unitTests.pdf |binary inst/doc/RProtoBuf.pdf | 2362 +++++++++----------- inst/doc/unitTests-results/RProtoBuf-unitTests.html | 20 inst/doc/unitTests-results/RProtoBuf-unitTests.txt | 23 inst/unitTests/runit.addressbook.R | 11 inst/unitTests/runit.enums.R |only inst/unitTests/runit.golden.message.R | 7 inst/unitTests/runit.import.R |only man/EnumDescriptor-class.Rd | 42 man/EnumValueDescriptor-class.Rd | 23 man/readProtoFiles.Rd | 3 src/DescriptorPoolLookup.cpp | 26 src/S4_classes.h | 6 src/wrapper_EnumDescriptor.cpp | 25 src/wrapper_EnumValueDescriptor.cpp | 25 24 files changed, 1357 insertions(+), 1299 deletions(-)
As always, there is more information at the RProtoBuf page which has a draft package vignette, a ‘quick’ overview vignette and a unit test summary vignette. Questions, comments etc should go to the rprotobuf mailing list off the RProtoBuf page at R-Forge.
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