RProtoBuf 0.4.8: Windows support for proto3

Issue ticket #20 demonstrated that we had not yet set up Windows for version 3 of Google Protocol Buffers ("Protobuf") — while the other platforms support it. So I made the change, and there is release 0.4.8.

RProtoBuf provides R bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers ("Protobuf") data encoding and serialization library used and released by Google, and deployed as a language and operating-system agnostic protocol by numerous projects.

The NEWS file summarises the release as follows:

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

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

CRANberries also provides a diff to the previous release. The RProtoBuf page has an older package vignette, a ‘quick’ overview vignette, a unit test summary vignette, and the pre-print for the JSS paper. Questions, comments etc should go to the GitHub issue tracker off the GitHub repo.

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