RProtoBuf 0.4.17: Robustified

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A new release 0.4.17 of RProtoBuf is now on CRAN. RProtoBuf provides R with bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers (“ProtoBuf”) data encoding and serialization library used and released by Google, and deployed very widely in numerous projects as a language and operating-system agnostic protocol.

This release contains small polishes related to the release 0.4.16 which added JSON support for messages, and switched to ByteSizeLong. This release now makes sure JSON functionality is only tested where available (on version 3 of the Protocol Buffers library), and that ByteSizeLong is only called where available (version 3.6.0 or later). Of course, older versions build as before and remain fully supported.

Changes in RProtoBuf version 0.4.17 (2020-03-xx)

  • Condition use of ByteSizeLong() on building with ProtoBuf 3.6.0 or later (Dirk in #71 fixing #70).

  • The JSON unit tests are skipped if ProtoBuf 2.* is used (Dirk, also #71).

  • The configure script now extracts the version from the DESCRIPTION file ( (Dirk, also #71).

CRANberries provides the usual diff to the previous release. The RProtoBuf page has copies of the (older) package vignette, the ‘quick’ overview vignette, and the pre-print of our JSS paper. Questions, comments etc should go to the GitHub issue tracker off the GitHub repo.

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