NEWS.md

In rextendr: Call Rust Code from R using the 'extendr' Crate

rextend 0.3.1

• Update package templates to work with Rust >= 1.70 (#285)

rextendr 0.3.0

• Ilia Kosenkov is now the official maintainer.

• Josiah Parry is now a contributor.

• Support Rtools43 (#231).

• rextendr has migrated to the use of cli for raising errors and warnings.

• Developer note: new helper function local_quiet_cli() introduced in R/utils.R to simplify silencing cli output.

New features

• A new function rust_sitrep() that prints out a short report on the currently installed Rust toolchain (#274).

• A new function write_license_note() to generate LICENSE.note file from Cargo.toml (#271).

• extendr_fn_options parameter of rust_source() controls what type of options are emitted to #[extendr()] attribute (#252).

• use_dev_extendr flag makes rust_source() family of functions compile code using development version of extendr. Development configuration is stored as an option named rextendr.extendr_dev_deps (#251).

• features parameter of rust_source() now correctly enables features in extendr-api and references required crates. features not available in release version of extendr raises a warning (#249).

• A <pkg_name>-win.def file containing DLL exports is created by rextendr::use_extendr(). It is used during linking phase on Windows and solves the problem of compiling very large projects, such as polars (#212)

• Support extendr macro with options (#128).

• rust_source() got features argument to specify Cargo features to activate (#140).

• rextendr::document() now sets the envvars that devtools::document() sets, e.g. NOT_CRAN (#135).

rextendr 0.2.0

First official release.

rextendr documentation built on July 9, 2023, 5:54 p.m.