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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2018/11/03#rprotobuf_0.4.12+13"> Thinking inside the box </a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<p>A new release 0.4.13 of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rprotobuf.html" target="_blank">RProtoBuf</a> got onto <a rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.r-project.org/" target="_blank">CRAN</a> a few hours ago. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rprotobuf.html" target="_blank">RProtoBuf</a> provides <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.r-project.org/" target="_blank">R</a> with bindings for the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/google/protobuf" target="_blank">Google Protocol Buffers (“ProtoBuf”)</a> data encoding and serialization library used and released by Google, and deployed fairly widely in numerous projects as a language and operating-system agnostic protocol.</p>
<p>It would also appear that I failed to blog about release 0.4.12 from July. Both releases contain a number of very nice and focused contributed pull requests – see below for more – as well as some standard packaging maintenance.</p>
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<h4>Changes in RProtoBuf version 0.4.13 (2018-11-03)</h4>
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<p>The <code>configure</code> setup is more robust with respect to the C++ setup (CRAN request).</p>
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<p><code>POSIXlt</code> elements are now properly serialized too (Jeffrey Shen in <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rprotobuf/pull/48" target="_blank">#48</a> and <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rprotobuf/pull/50" target="_blank">#50</a> fixing <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rprotobuf/issues/47" target="_blank">#47</a>)</p>
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<p>Added two Dockerfiles for continuous integration and use; see <a rel="nofollow" href="https://cloud.docker.com/swarm/rprotobuf/repository/list" target="_blank">this url</a> for more.</p>
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<h4>Changes in RProtoBuf version 0.4.12 (2018-07-11)</h4>
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<p>Recursive serialization of sublists returning themselves is now recognised (Jeffrey Shen in <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rprotobuf/pull/38" target="_blank">#38</a> fixing <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rprotobuf/issues/37" target="_blank">#37</a>)</p>
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<p>New function <code>readProtoFiles2</code> to be consistent with <code>protoc</code> (Siddhartha Bagaria in <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rprotobuf/pull/40" target="_blank">#40</a> fixing <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rprotobuf/issues/39" target="_blank">#39</a>)</p>
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<p>Update Windows binary library used (Maciej Lach and Jeroen Ooms in <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rprotobuf/pull/42" target="_blank">#42</a> and follow-up commits)</p>
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<p>New unit tests for new functionality (Siddhartha Bagaria in <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rprotobuf/pull/45" target="_blank">#45</a>)</p>
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<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/" target="_blank">CRANberries</a> also provides a <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/2018/11/03#RProtoBuf_0.4.13" target="_blank">diff to the previous release</a>. The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rprotobuf.html" target="_blank">RProtoBuf</a> page has copies of the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rprotobuf/RProtoBuf-intro.pdf" target="_blank">(older) package vignette</a>, the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rprotobuf/RProtoBuf-quickref.pdf" target="_blank">‘quick’ overview vignette</a>, a <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rprotobuf/RProtoBuf-unitTests.pdf" target="_blank">unit test summary vignette</a>, and the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/RProtoBuf/vignettes/RProtoBuf-paper.pdf" target="_blank">pre-print for the JSS paper</a>. Questions, comments etc should go to the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rprotobuf/issues" target="_blank">GitHub issue tracker</a> off the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rprotobuf" target="_blank">GitHub repo</a>.</p>
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This post by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/" target="_blank">Dirk Eddelbuettel</a> originated on his <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/" target="_blank">Thinking inside the box</a> blog. Please report excessive re-aggregation in third-party for-profit settings.</p>
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