Changelog

  • V.1.0.1 (2023-01-10)
    • Replace deprecated numpy.bool8 with numpy.bool_
    • Upgraded installation instructions in INSTALL file (more up-to-date R and Rserve)
    • Added Dockerfile for installing R and Rserve into container (used for github actions)
    • Enabled github actions for testing
  • V 1.0.0 (2022-10-13)
    • Added docu for secure connection to Rserve via SSH tunnel
    • Updated meta data for pyRserve package
    • Added deprecation warning for Python 2
    • Corrected links to documentation
  • V 1.0.0b3 (2021-06-25)
    Brought usage of pytest into the year 2021.
    • use fixtures for setting up an Rserve connection
    • put fixtures into conftest.py
    • added command line option for controlling rserve startup
    • properly named rserve-test.conf file.
  • V 1.0.0b2 (2021-06-22)
    • Added missing version.txt file to wheel
  • V 1.0.0b1 (2021-06-22)
    • Updated and cleanup documentation
    • Updated for more recent versions of R and Rserve
    • Added pre-commit hooks
    • Separated packages for dev/testing from production ones
    • Enhanced handling of NA values (thanks to Max Taggart)
    • Fixed numpy deprecation warnings (thanks to chaddcw)
  • V 0.9.2 (2019-12-19)
    • Replaced deprecated numpy.fromstring with numpy.frombuffer
    • Flake8/pep8 cleanup
    • Refactored exception hierarchy
  • V 0.9.1 (2017-05-19)
  • V 0.9.0 (2016-04-11)
    • Full support for data objects larger than 2**24 bytes
    • Maximum size of message sent to Rserv can now be 2**64 bytes
  • V 0.8.4 (2015-09-06)
    • fixed missing requirements.txt in MANIFEST.in
    • fixed bug in installer (setup.py)
  • V 0.8.3 (2015-09-04)
    • Fixed exception catching for Python 3.4 (thanks to eeue56)
    • Some pep8 cleanups
    • explicit initialization of a number of instance variables in some classes
    • cleanup of import statements in test modules
    • Allow for message sizes greater than 4GB coming from R server
  • V 0.8.2 (2015-07-11)
    • Added support for S4 objects (generated when e.g. creating a db object in R)
  • V 0.8.1 (2014-07-17)
    • Fixed errors in the documentation, updated outdated parts
    • For unittesting run Rserve on different port from the default 6311 to avoid clashes with regular Rserve running on the same server
    • Fixed but when passing a R-function as argument to a function call (e.g. to sapply), added unittest for this
  • V 0.8.0 (2014-06-26)
    • Added support for remote shutdown of Rserve (thanks to Uwe Schmitt)
    • Added support for Out-Of-Bounds (OOB) messages (thanks to Philipp alias flying-sheep)
  • V 0.7.3 (2013-08-01)
    • Added missing MANIFEST.in to produce a complete tgz package (now includes docs etc)
    • Fixed bug on x64 machines when handling integers larger than 2**31
  • V 0.7.2 (2013-07-19)
    • Tested with Python 3.3.x, R 3.0.1 and Rserve 1.7.0
    • Updated documentation accordingly
    • Code cleanup for pep8 (mostly)
    • Marked code as production stable
  • V 0.7.1 (2013-06-23)
    • Added link to new GitHub repository
    • fixed URL to documentation
  • V 0.7.0 (2013-02-25)
    • Fixed problem when receiving very large result sets from R (added support for XT_LARGE header flag)
    • Correctly translate multi-dimensional R arrays into numpy arrays (preserve axes the right way) Removed ‘arrayOrder’ keyword argument as a consequence. THIS IS AN API CHANGE - PLEASE CHECK AND ADAPT YOUR CODE, ESPECIALLY IF YOU USE MULTI-DIM ARRAYS!!
    • Support for conn.voidEval and conn.eval and new ‘defaultVoid’-kw argument in the connect() function
    • Fixed bug in receiving multi-dimensional boolean (logical) arrays from R
    • Added support for multi-dimensional string arrays
    • added support for XT_VECTOR_EXPR type generated e.g. via “expression()” in R (will return a list with the expression content as list content)
    • windows users can now connect to localhost by pyRserve.connect() (omitting ‘localhost’ parameter)
  • V 0.6.0 (2012-06-25)
    • support for Python3.x
    • Python versions <= 2.5 no more supported (due to Py3 support)
    • support for unicode strings in Python 2.x
    • full support complex numbers, partial support for 64bit integers and arrays
    • suport for Fortran-style ordering of numpy arrays
    • elements of single-item arrays are now translated to native python data types
    • much improved documentation
    • better unit test coverage
    • usage of the deprecated conn(<eval-string>) is no more possible
    • pyRserve.rconnect() now also removed
  • V 0.5.2 (2011-12-02)
    • Fixed problem with 32bit integers being mistakenly rendered into 64bit integers on 64bit machines
  • V 0.5.1 (2011-11-22)
    • Fixed improper DeprecationWarning when evaluating R statements via conn.r(…)
  • V 0.5 (2011-10-03)
    • Renamed pyRserve.rconnect() to pyRserve.connect(). The former still works but shows a DeprecationWarning
    • String evaluation should now only be executed on the namespace directly, not on the connection object anymore. The latter still works but shows a DeprecationWarning.
    • New kw argument atomicArray=True added to pyRserve.connect() for preventing single valued arrays from being converted into atomic python data types.
  • V 0.4 (2011-09-20)
    • Added support for nested function calls. E.g. conn.r.t.test( ….) now works.
    • Proper support for boolean variables and vectors
  • V 0.3 (2010-06-08)
    • Added conversion of more complex R structures into Python
    • Updated documentation (installation, manual)
  • V 0.2 (2010-03-19) Fixed rendering of TaggedArrays
  • V 0.1 (2010-01-10) Initial version