A new RcppTOML release is now on CRAN. RcppTOML brings TOML to R.

TOML is a file format that is most suitable for configurations, as it is meant to be edited by humans but read by computers. It emphasizes strong readability for humans while at the same time supporting strong typing as well as immediate and clear error reports. On small typos you get parse errors, rather than silently corrupted garbage. Much preferable to any and all of XML, JSON or YAML – though sadly these may be too ubiquitous now. TOML has been making inroads with projects such as the Hugo static blog compiler, or the Cargo system of Crates (aka “packages”) for the Rust language.

Václav Hausenblas sent a number of excellent and very focused PRs helping with some input format corner cases, as well as with one test. We added support for the wonderful new tinytest package. The detailed list of changes in this incremental version is below.

Changes in version 0.1.6 (2019-06-25)

• Propagate the escape switch to calls of getTable() and getArray() (Václav Hausenblas in #32 completing #26). Hausenblas in #36 completing #26)

• The README.md file now mentions TOML v0.5.0 support (Watal Iwasaki in #35 addressing #33).

• Encodings in arrays is to UTF-8 for character (Václav Hausenblas in #36 completing #28)

• The package now use tinytest (Dirk in #38 fixing #37, also Václav in #39).

Courtesy of CRANberries, there is a diffstat report for this release.

More information is on the RcppTOML page page. Issues and bugreports should go to the GitHub issue tracker.

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