A new version of RcppAPT — our interface from R to the C++ library behind the awesome apt, apt-get, apt-cache, … commands and their cache powering Debian, Ubuntu and the like — is now on CRAN.

We changed the package to require C++11 compilation as newer Debian systems with g++-6 and the current libapt-pkg-dev library cannot build under the C++98 standard which CRAN imposes (and let’s not get into why …). Once set to C++11 we have no issues. We also added more examples to the manual pages, and turned on code coverage.

A bit more information about the package is available here as well as as the GitHub repo.

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