NEWS

RcppRedis 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’.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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).

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.*

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.

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

Minor update to unit test setup for rredis.
No longer list URLs to Redis as automated CRAN tests for URL validity choke on redirects.

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

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