Dirk Eddelbuettel: tidyCpp 0.0.9 on CRAN: More (forced) Maintenance

Another maintenance release of the tidyCpp
package arrived on CRAN this morning. The packages offers a clean C++
layer (as well as one small C++ helper class) on top of the C API for R
which aims to make use of this robust (if awkward) C API a little easier
and more consistent. See the vignette for motivating
examples.

This release follows a similar release in
November and had its hand forced by rather abrupt and forced
overnight changes in R-devel, this time the removal of
VECTOR_PTR in [this commit]. The release also contains
changes accumulated since the last release (including some kindly
contritbuted by Ivan) and those are signs that the R Core team can do
more coordinated release management when they try a little harder.

Changes are summarize in the NEWS entry that follows.

Changes in tidyCpp
version 0.0.9 (2026-03-03)

• Several vignette typos have been corrected (#4 addressing
  #3)

• A badge for r-universe has been added to the README.md

• The vignette is now served via GitHub Pages and that version is
  referenced in the README.

• Two entry points reintroduced and redefined using permitted R API
  function (Ivan Krylov in #5).

• Another entry has been removed to match R-devel API
  changes.

• Six new attributes helpers have been added for R 4.6.0 or
  later.

• VECTOR_PTR_RO(x) replaces the removed
  VECTOR_PTR, a warning or deprecation period would have been
  nice here.

Thanks to my CRANberries, there
is also a diffstat report for this
release. For questions, suggestions, or issues please use the issue tracker
at the GitHub
repo.

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