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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2017/02/13#rcpptoml_0.1.1"> Thinking inside the box </a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<p>Following up on the somewhat important <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2017/01/05#rcpptoml_0.1.0">RcppTOML 0.1.0 releaseas</a> which brought <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rcpp.toml.html">RcppTOML</a> to Windows, we have a first minor update 0.1.1. Two things changed: once again updated upstream code from <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://chara.cs.illinois.edu/sites/cgeigle/">Chase Geigle</a>‘s <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/skystrife/cpptoml">cpptoml</a> which now supports Date types too, and we added the ability to parse TOML from strings as opposed to only from files.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/toml-lang/toml">TOML</a> is a file format that is most suitable for configurations, as it is meant to be <em>edited by humans</em> but read by computers. It emphasizes <em>strong readability for humans</em> while at the same time supporting <em>strong typing</em> as well as <em>immediate and clear error reports</em>. On small typos you get parse errors, rather than silently corrupted garbage. Much preferable to any and all of XML, JSON or YAML — though sadly these may be too ubiquitous now.<br>
<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/toml-lang/toml">TOML</a> is making good inroads with newer and more flexible projects such as the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://gohugo.io/">Hugo</a> static blog compiler, or the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://crates.io/">Cargo</a> system of Crates (aka &quot;packages&quot;) for the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/">Rust language</a>.</p>
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<h4>Changes in version 0.1.1 (2017-xx-yy)</h4>
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<p>Synchronized multiple times with ccptoml upstream adding support for local datetime and local date and more (PR <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rcpptoml/pull/9">#9</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rcpptoml/pull/10">#10</a>, PR <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rcpptoml/pull/11">#11</a>)</p>
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<p>Dates are now first class types, some support for local versus UTC times was added (though it may be adviseable to stick with UTC)</p>
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<p>Parsing from (R) character variables is now supported as well</p>
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<p>Output from <code>print.toml</code> no longer prints extra newlines</p>
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<p>Courtesy of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/">CRANberries</a>, there is a diffstat report for <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/2017/02/13#RcppTOML_0.1.1">this release</a>.</p>
<p>More information and examples are on the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rcpp.toml.html">RcppTOML page</a>. Issues and bugreports should go to the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rcpptoml/issues">GitHub issue tracker</a>.</p>
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This post by <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/">Dirk Eddelbuettel</a> originated on his <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/">Thinking inside the box</a> blog. Please report excessive re-aggregation in third-party for-profit settings.</p>
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