CRAN release 0.9.2

nanonext 0.9.2

This version contains performance enhancements which have resulted in potentially breaking changes; please review carefully and only update when ready.

New Features

• base64dec() argument 'convert' now accepts NA as an input, which unserializes back to the original object.

Updates

• The argument 'keep.raw' for all receive functions is deprecated. This is as raw vectors are no longer created as part of unserialisation or data conversion.
• Higher performance send and receive of serialized R objects.
  • For receive functions, attempting to unserialise a non-serialised message will now error with 'unknown input format' rather than fall back to a raw message vector.
• ncurl() etc. gain higher performance raw to character conversion, resulting in the following changes:
  • Attempting to convert non-text data with embedded nuls will now error instead of silently returning NULL.
  • For efficiency, when 'convert' = TRUE, a raw vector is no longer stored at $raw.
• Higher performance cryptographic hash and base64 conversion functions.
  • Attributes are now taken into account for scalar strings and raw vectors to ensure unique hashes.
• Experimental threaded function timed_signal() removed.
• Requires R >= 3.5 to ensure R serialization version 3.