NEWS in package ‘bit64’

Changes in version 4.0.5

BUG FIXES

PKG_LIBS=-lm added to Makevars (fixes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1763127 thanks to Elliott Sales de Andrade)

Changes in version 4.0.4

BUG FIXES

runif64() no longer long long overflows for the maximum integer64 range
UBSAN false alarms removed with __attribute__((no_sanitize("signed-integer-overflow")))
added temporary flags to Makefile for UBSAN checks

Changes in version 4.0.3

BUG FIXES

added Makefile with temporary -flto and removed LTO error regarding runif_integer64

Changes in version 4.0.2

BUG FIXES

now DESCRIPTION URL points to github

Changes in version 4.0.1

BUG FIXES

removed pragma because no longer needed with recent compilers
removed a clang warning

Changes in version 4.0.0

NEW FEATURES

new method all.equal.integer64 (contributed by Leonardo Silvestri)

USER VISIBLE CHANGES

license has been extendend from GPL-2 to GPL-2 | GPL-3
still.identical is now exported from package bit

BUG FIXES

removed unused SEXP ret_ from r_ram_integer64_sortnut and r_ram_integer64_ordernut (LTO problems reported by Brian Ripley)
min, max and range now give correct results for multiple arguments (reported by Colin Umanski)
r_ram_integer64_ordertab_asc and r_ram_integer64_sortordertab_asc now properly PROTECT their shortened return vector before R_Busy(0) (Thanks to Tomas Kalibera)
operations on zero length integer64 now return zero length integer64 instead of throwing an error (reported by Xianying Tan)
match.integer64 (and %in%) now coerce the second argument to integer64 instead of throwing an error (reported by Xianying Tan)
zero-length integer64() no longer prints as 'character(0)' (reported by Xianying Tan)

Changes in version 0.9-8

NEW FEATURES

New function runif64 which can sample from finite and infinite populations (wish of Dan Reznik)
New methods as.integer64.bitstring and print.bitstring (wish of Dan Reznik)

USER VISIBLE CHANGES

[.integer64 now returns NA where the subscripts require this (contributed by Leonardo Silvestri)
binary operators now handle attributes more like R (new binattr() code contributed by Leonardo Silvestri)
as.bitstring.integer64 now returns its string vector with class 'bitstring'
round.integer64 with a negative digits argument now rounds like round(integer) would do (wish of Ian Lyttle)
range.integer64 now has an argument finite=FALSE for compatibility with range.default (wish of Sergio Oller)

BUG FIXES

calculating hashbits in hashfun, hashmap, hashmaptab and hashmapuni now gives 0 instead of stopping (bug reported by Jakob Schelbert)

Changes in version 0.9-7

BUG FIXES

All .Call routines are now registered

Changes in version 0.9-6

NEW FEATURES

New method str.integer64 shows the integer64 and no longer the underlying double (wish of Matt Dowle)
New integer64 methods is.nan, is.finite, is.infinite (wish of Florent Angly)

USER VISIBLE CHANGES

as.integer64.double and as.double.integer64 now have an argument keep.names=FALSE (wish of Dirk Edelbüttel and Leonardo Silvestri)

BUG FIXES

We now protect our SEXP return-vector before calling R_Busy (reported by Thjomas Kalibera)
median.integer64 now gets a ... argument if the generic has it (wish of Kurt Hornik)
we migrated all files to UTF-8

Changes in version 0.9-5

USER VISIBLE CHANGES

The following functions are converted to S3 generics and mask package:base :, is.double, match, %in%, rank, order
NA_integer64_ is now available and exported

BUG FIXES

ramsort.integer64 no longer complains about misssing return value when stable || optimize == "time" (reported by Dan Southern)
removed a harmless warning on request of CRAN maintainers gcc had complained about using %lli format which is not supported under the windows MCPP compiler, under which %lli and thus as.character.integer64 will fail.
now uses R's RNG instead of the system RNG

Changes in version 0.9-4

BUG FIXES

The packages now uses clone(x) instead of x[]
log(x) tests no longer fail under valgrind (Thanks to Heisenberg it only failed under Valgrind)
UBSAN should no longer complain about left shift

Changes in version 0.9-3

USER VISIBLE CHANGES

The following functions are converted to S3 generics and mask package:base :, is.double, match, %in%, rank, order
table.integer64 now automatically converts non-integer64 arguments to integer64 rather than stopping on error (but gives a warning for each column)
table.integer64 called with return="table" returns empty cells now with 0 rather than NA
%in%.integer64 no longer has arguments 'nunique' and 'method' in order to match the generic with only two arguments 'x', 'table' and ...

BUG FIXES

c(x,x,x) failed with integer64 type because R no longer copies the arguments in list(...) as from R-3.0.2 . Presumably now the ugly workaround in table.integer64 is no longer needed but that has NOT been fixed yet
round.integer64 no longer removes the "integer64" class attribute (reported by Dan Southern)

Changes in version 0.9-2

BUG FIXES

match.integer64 (and %in%.integer64) now call correctly with method="hashpos" and method="hashrev"
removed platform specific timing code that was not needed and prevented compiling under MacOS

Changes in version 0.9-1

NEW FEATURES

new methods for 'match', '%in%', 'duplicated', 'unique', 'table' , 'sort', 'order', 'rank', 'quantile', 'median' and 'summary'
new generics and methods for data management: 'unipos' (positions of the unique values) , 'tiepos' (positions of ties) , 'keypos' (positions of values in a sorted unique table) and derived methods 'as.factor' and 'as.ordered'
new generic caching scheme, see ?cache and ?hashcache
new low level functions for fast sorting, ordering and hashing, see ?sortnut and ?hashmap

USER VISIBLE CHANGES

the package is back on CRAN. Method 'as.vector.integer64' has been removed at request of the CRAN maintainer. The starting point for this request was: 'matrix(integer64())' does not work. The result of removing 'as.vector.integer64' is a deterioration: 'array(integer64())' does not work anymore. You can restore 'as.vector.integer64' if you prefer.
package 'bit64' now shares generics for low-level sorting with package 'ff' and depends on package 'bit' for those generics

Changes in version 0.8-3

FIXES

removed chonst char warning (thanks to Murray Stokely)
reduced R dependency down to version 2.12.1 (wish of Murray Stokely)