A new release 0.2.5 of
RProtoBuf
is now on CRAN.
RProtoBuf
provides GNU R
bindings for the
Google Protobuf data encoding
library used and released by Google.

This release once again contains a number of patches kindly contributed by
Murray Stokely, as well as some updates
to conform to CRAN Policy changes.

The NEWS file entry follows below:

Changes in version 0.2.5 (2012-08-08)

• Applied patches by Murray to

  • correctly deal with nested Protocol Buffer definitions, and
    also add new unit test for this

  • test a a protocol buffer for missing required fields before
    serializing it, also add a unit test

  • add a small stylistic fix and examples to the ‘add.Rd’ manual page

• Moved inst/doc/ to vignettes/ per newer CRAN Policy

CRANberries also provides a

diff to the previous release 0.243.
More information is 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.