News for Package RcppRedis

Changes in version 0.2.6 (2025-06-24)

• The commands DEL, LREM and LMOVE have been added

• The continuous integration setup was updated once more

• The pub/sub publisher now supports a type argument similar to the listener, this allows string message publishing for non-R subscribers

Changes in version 0.2.5 (2025-03-26)

• The continuous integration setup was updated several times

• Badges and URLs in README.md have been updated

• An updated interface from RApiSerialize is now used, and a versioned dependency on version 0.1.4 or later has been added

• The DESCRIPTION file now uses Authors@R

• Two possible bashisms have been converted in configure.ac

• The (fallback if needed) build of libhiredis.a now sets -DNDEBUG, four uses of sprintf converted to snprintf

Changes in version 0.2.4 (2023-08-19)

• Add missing alias for ‘RcppRedis-package’ to rhiredis.Rd.

• Remove Suggests: rredis which triggers a NOTE nag as it is only on an ‘Additional_repositories’.

Changes in version 0.2.3 (2023-03-08)

• No longer set a C++ compilation standard as the default choices by R are sufficient for the package.

• Switch include to Rcpp/Rcpp which signals use of all Rcpp features including Modules.

Changes in version 0.2.2 (2022-10-31)

• Thanks to a suggestion by Paul Murrell, the real-time chart demo now uses dev.hold() and.flush() for flicker-free updates.

• One function prototype was updated for clang-15.

• GitHub Actions were updated to checkout version 3.

Changes in version 0.2.1 (2022-04-09)

• The rredis package can be installed via the repo listed in Additional_repositories; the pubsub.R test file makes rredis optional and conditional; all demos now note that the optional rredis package is installable via the drat listed in Additional_repositories.

• The fallback-compilation of hiredis has been forced to override compilation flags because CRAN knows better than upstream.

• The GLOBEX pub/sub example has small updates.

Changes in version 0.2.0 (2022-03-08)

• Two simple C++11 features remove needs for BH and lexical_cast() (Dirk in #45 addressing #44).

• Redis pub/sub is now supported (Dirk in #43, Bryan in #46).

• Bryan Lewis is now a coauthor.

• Added pub/sub examples for single and multiple Globex symbols.

• The included hiredis sources have been updated to release 1.0.2.

• Two vignettes have been added to introduce Redis and to described a live market-monitoring application included in directory pubsub/.

• The UCRT build was updated per a suggestion by Tomas.

Changes in version 0.1.11 (2021-06-26)

• The CI setup was updated to use run.sh from r-ci (Dirk).

• A new function quit can be used to close a connection (Dirk).

• The windows build was updated to libhiredis 1.0.0, and UCRT support was added (Jeroen in #42).

Changes in version 0.1.10 (2020-01-16)

• The package now uses tinytest for unit tests (Dirk in #41).

Changes in version 0.1.9 (2018-10-27)

• The configure setup is more robust with respect to the C++ setup [CRAN request].

• The Travis builds was updated to R 3.5 along with all others (#34).

• A new Redis function hexists was added (Whit Armstrong in #35).

• The hiredis library source is now included, and built on all systems unwilling or unable to provide it (#36).

• Added hash functions HDEL, HLEN, HKEYS, and HGETALL (Whit Armstrong in #38).

Changes in version 0.1.8 (2017-09-09)

• A new file init.c was added with calls to R_registerRoutines() and R_useDynamicSymbols()

• Symbol registration is enabled in useDynLib

• Travis CI was updated to using run.sh

• The (optional MessagePack) code was updated for MsgPack 2.*

Changes in version 0.1.7 (2016-04-27)

• Added support for timeout constructor argument (PR #14 by Russell Pierce)

• Added new commands exists, ltrim, expire and pexpire along with unit tests (PR #16 by Russell Pierce)

• Return NULL for empty keys in serialized get for consistency with lpop and rpop (also PR #16 by Russell Pierce)

• Minor corrections to get code and hget and hset documentation (also PR #16 by Russell Pierce)

• Error conditions are now properly forwarded as R errors (PR #22 by Russell Pierce)

• Results from Redis commands are now checked for NULL (PR #23 by Russell Pierce)

• MessagePack encoding can now be used which requires MessagePackage headers of version 1.0 or later; the (optional) RcppMsgPack package can be used.

Changes in version 0.1.6 (2015-10-05)

• Added support (including new unit tests) for lpop, rpop, lpush, rpush as well as auth via augmented constructor (all thanks to PRs #11 and #13 by Russell Pierce)

• Added ping command and unit test

Changes in version 0.1.5 (2015-07-17)

• Another minor fix to unit test setup for rredis.

Changes in version 0.1.4 (2015-07-04)

• Minor update to unit test setup for rredis.

• No longer list URLs to Redis as automated CRAN tests for URL validity choke on redirects.

Changes in version 0.1.3 (2014-12-10)

• Bug fix setting correct return type of zcount

Changes in version 0.1.2 (2014-11-06)

• New commands execv, hset, hget, sadd, srem, and smembers contributed by John Laing and Whit Armstrong over pull requests #3 and #4.

Changes in version 0.1.1 (2014-06-09)

• Now with Windows support thanks to the installation of builds of the hiredis library (created by John Buonagurio) at CRAN / win-builder (thanks to Uwe Ligges)

• Added support for new command zcount

Changes in version 0.1.0 (2014-05-10)

• Initial CRAN upload