Dirk Eddelbuettel: RProtoBuf 0.4.25 on CRAN: Mostly Maintenance

A new maintenance release 0.4.25 of RProtoBuf
arrived on CRAN today. 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 brings an update to a header use force by R-devel, the
usual set of continunous integration updates, and a large overhaul of
URLs as CRAN is now running
more powerful checks. As a benefit the three vignettes have all been
refreshed. they are now also delivered via the new
Rcpp::asis() vignette builder that permits pre-made pdf
files to be used easily.

The following section from the NEWS.Rd file has full details.

Changes in
RProtoBuf version 0.4.25 (2026-01-11)

• Several routine updates to continuous integration script

• Include ObjectTable.h instead of
  Callback.h to accommodate R 4.6.0

• Switch vignettes to Rcpp::asis driver, update
  references

Thanks to my CRANberries, there
is a 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.

This post by Dirk
Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box
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