Dirk Eddelbuettel: RApiDatetime 0.0.11 on CRAN: Micro-Maintenance

A new (micro) maintenance release of our RApiDatetime
package is now on CRAN, coming
only a good week after the 0.0.10
release which itself had a two year gap to its predecessor
release.

RApiDatetime
provides a number of entry points for C-level functions of the R API for
Date and Datetime calculations. The functions
asPOSIXlt and asPOSIXct convert between long
and compact datetime representation, formatPOSIXlt and
Rstrptime convert to and from character strings, and
POSIXlt2D and D2POSIXlt convert between
Date and POSIXlt datetime. Lastly,
asDatePOSIXct converts to a date type. All these functions
are rather useful, but were not previously exported by R for C-level use
by other packages. Which this package aims to change.

This release adds a single (and ) around one variable as the
rchk container and service by Tomas now flagged this. Which
is … somewhat peculiar, as this is old code also ‘borrowed’ from R
itself but no point arguing so I just added this.

Details of the release follow based on the NEWS file.

Changes in
RApiDatetime version 0.0.11 (2026-01-19)

• Add PROTECT (and UNPROTECT) to appease rchk

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

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