Dirk Eddelbuettel: RProtoBuf 0.4.26 on CRAN: More Maintenance

A new maintenance release 0.4.26 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. The new release is also
already as a binary via r2u.

This release brings an update to aid in an ongoing Rcpp transitions from
Rf_error to Rcpp::stop, and includes a few
more minor cleanups including one contributed by Michael.

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

Changes in
RProtoBuf version 0.4.26 (2026-03-06)

• Minor cleanup in DESCRIPTION depends and imports

• Remove obsolete check for utils::.DollarNames
  (Michael Chirico in #111)

• Replace Rf_error with Rcpp::stop, turn
  remaining one into (Rf_error) (Dirk in #112)

• Update configure test to check for RProtoBuf 3.3.0
  or later

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.

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Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box
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