• Fixes for CRAN
  • Fixes for CRAN
  • feather_metadata() now handles paths with ~ in them.

  • Fix warnings on CRAN due to (unused) GNU Makefiles.

  • Use tibble::tibble() in place of the deprecated dplyr::data_frame().

  • Fixes for PROTECT error found by rchk.

  • Use native routine registration

  • Fix test failure due to UTF-8 encoded paths on Windows.

Bug fixes and minor features

  • Fixes for gcc-4.4 compilation.

Underlying feather library changes

  • Feather files are now padded to 64-bit alignment. Feather 0.3 will read feather files created by the previous version, but this will not be true for future versions of feather.

  • Support for > 2 Gb files on 32-bit windows.

  • Now works with earlier version of C++.

Bug fixes and minor features

  • Automatically close open file handles making it possible to read in hundreds of feather files in the same session (@krlmlr, #178)

  • Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.

  • Fixed protection bugs that lead to unpredictable crashes (#150, #204).

  • Time fields are now imported as class hms/difftime (#119).

  • Timestamp (POSIXct) fields now correctly restore missing values (#157).

  • UTF-8 field names are correctly imported (#198)