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yaml (development version)

  • Fixes for C API compliance.

  • Switched from CHANGELOG to NEWS.md.

yaml 2.3.10

CRAN release: 2024-07-26

  • Added necessary includes for stdio.h and stddef.h.

yaml 2.3.9

CRAN release: 2024-07-05

  • Edited documentation.

yaml 2.3.8

CRAN release: 2023-12-11

  • Added verbatim_logical helper function.

yaml 2.3.7

CRAN release: 2023-01-23

  • clang deprecated sprintf. Changed in included clib to snprintf.

yaml 2.3.6

CRAN release: 2022-10-18

  • C deprecated functions with no prototypes, these were added.

yaml 2.3.5

CRAN release: 2022-02-21

  • Patch to put back in libyaml modifications that as.yaml relied on.

yaml 2.3.4

CRAN release: 2022-02-17

  • Added read_yaml parameter readLines.warn that defaults to TRUE for overriding warnings about incomplete files.

yaml 2.3.3

  • Fixed Bug #99, support for BUILTINSXP functions as handlers.

yaml 2.3.2

  • Removed some code that got reverted in the libyaml 0.2.5 merge at 2.2.4 release.

yaml 2.3.1

  • Added omap support for output using proper tag.

yaml 2.3.0

  • Made eval.expr default to FALSE.

yaml 2.2.4

  • Updated libyaml code from 0.2.5.

yaml 2.2.3

  • Added attribute quote support for strings (#72, #109).

yaml 2.2.2

CRAN release: 2022-01-25

yaml 2.2.1

CRAN release: 2020-02-01

  • Added merge.precedence option to yaml.load.
  • Fixed improper handling of explicit !bool tag (reported by Luke Goodsell).
  • Fixed memory issue flagged by valgrind.
  • Updated LibYAML to 0.2.2.
  • Fixed some -Wall warnings to appease CRAN.

yaml 2.2.0

CRAN release: 2018-07-25

  • Added custom handlers to as.yaml.
  • Added processing of ‘verbatim’ class in as.yaml.
  • Added processing of ‘tag’ class in as.yaml.
  • Changed examples/tests to write to tempfiles to appease CRAN.
  • Fixed as.yaml representation of very small negative floating point numbers (reported by Ryan Welch).
  • Properly ignore a map key that would override a key from a merged map (reported by Bradley Saul).
  • Gracefully fail compilation if GCC fast-math flag is enabled (reported by Dmitriy Selivanov).
  • Switched from testthat to RUnit for unit testing since RUnit has fewer dependencies and does not require compilation.

yaml 2.1.19

CRAN release: 2018-05-01

  • Fixed unserialization issues with int#base60 tag (reported by Nancy Irisarri).
  • Added eval.expr option to yaml.load function.
  • Fixed issue with error.label argument (patch by Gregory R. Warnes).
  • Fixed a few garbage collection protection issues.

yaml 2.1.18

CRAN release: 2018-03-08

  • Fixed protection stack bugs (reported by Rich FitzJohn).

yaml 2.1.17

CRAN release: 2018-02-27

  • Rewrote parsing functionality using pairlists instead of a self-managed protection stack in order to appease rchk.
  • Use MARK_NOT_MUTABLE instead of SET_NAMED, which is deprecated.
  • Show warning when duplicate map key is ignored during a merge.

yaml 2.1.16

CRAN release: 2017-12-12

  • Fixed error checking bug regarding number conversions.

yaml 2.1.15

CRAN release: 2017-12-01

  • Improved handling of UTF-8 encoded files.
  • Added Github URL to description file.
  • Added read_yaml and write_yaml convenience functions.
  • Added error.label parameter to yaml.load and yaml.load_file.
  • Recognize floating point numbers without leading 0.
  • Fixed nested list issue.
  • Show warning for integer/real overflow.

yaml 2.1.14

CRAN release: 2016-11-12

  • Marked character input/output as UTF-8 (patch submitted by Yihui Xie).
  • Updated LibYAML to 0.1.7.

yaml 2.1.13

CRAN release: 2014-06-12

  • Fixed integer overflow issue.
  • Explicitly cast pointers from char to yaml_char_t, and vice versa.

yaml 2.1.12

CRAN release: 2014-06-11

  • Properly emit factors with NAs (bug submitted by Jenny Bryan).
  • Updated LibYAML to 0.1.6.

yaml 2.1.11

CRAN release: 2014-03-15

  • Updated LibYAML to 0.1.5.

yaml 2.1.10

CRAN release: 2014-01-04

  • Properly escape names in data frames and lists (bug submitted by Paul Hodor).
  • Removed extra digit in Windows when formatting exponential numbers.

yaml 2.1.9

CRAN release: 2013-12-29

  • CRAN maintainers changed memcpy to memmove.

yaml 2.1.8

CRAN release: 2013-08-23

  • Properly emit and consume numeric values in scientific notation (bug submitted by Gergely Daróczi).
  • Added ‘precision’ argument to as.yaml to control how many digits are printed when emitting.

yaml 2.1.7

CRAN release: 2013-03-05

  • Properly emit and consume special values: Inf, -Inf, NaN, NA, TRUE, and FALSE (bug submitted by Richard Cotton).
    • Inf is emitted as .inf.
    • -Inf as -.inf.
    • NaN as .nan.
    • TRUE is now emitted as yes, and FALSE as no.
  • Because the YAML specification does not specify how to handle NA values, the various NA types are emitted as follows:
    • NA: .na
    • NA_real_: .na.real
    • NA_integer_: .na.integer
    • NA_character_: .na.character

yaml 2.1.6

CRAN release: 2013-01-18

  • Added unicode option to as.yaml() (bug submissions by Gergely Daróczi and Aleksandar Blagotić).

yaml 2.1.5

CRAN release: 2012-11-15

  • Fixed yaml.load() ignoring explicit quotes around strings (bug submitted by Jonas Zimmermann).
  • Fixed as.yaml() not quoting strings that need to be quoted.

yaml 2.1.4

CRAN release: 2012-04-05

  • Replaced lang5() function for backwards compatibility with R < 2.12.0 (bug submitted by Philipp Hofmann).

yaml 2.1.3

CRAN release: 2012-01-31

  • Fixed as.yaml() converting numeric vectors incorrectly (bug submitted by Markus Göker).

yaml 2.1.2

CRAN release: 2012-01-17

  • Fixed multiple anchor bug (bug submitted by apshaar).

yaml 2.1.1

CRAN release: 2011-12-08

  • Removed redundant yaml-package help page.
  • Fixed solaris compilation error.
  • Removed printf/assert symbols from the compiled library.

yaml 2.1.0

CRAN release: 2011-12-03

  • Rewrote as.yaml in C (using libyaml’s emitter).
  • Removed the pre.indent option to as.yaml, mainly because libyaml doesn’t support pre-indention and I’m not sure the option is useful anymore; will revisit if requested.

yaml 2.0.0

CRAN release: 2011-11-12

  • Switched from the Syck parser to the libyaml (0.1.4) parser.
  • Sequences of sequences no longer collapse when they contain the same type; ex: yaml.load("[1, [2, 3], 4]") returns list(1L, c(2L, 3L), 4L).

yaml 1.2.0

CRAN release: 2011-06-17

  • Added support for loading R expressions (using the !expr tag).
  • Added multiline string support.
  • Added support for nameless lists in as.yaml (converts to a sequence).

yaml 1.1.0

CRAN release: 2009-09-12

  • Added support for omaps.
  • Added yaml.load_file function to read from files/connections.
  • Using format instead of as.character now in as.yaml.default.

yaml 1.0.2

CRAN release: 2009-08-26

  • Fixed as.yaml bug where a nested empty list wasn’t converted correctly.

yaml 1.0.1

CRAN release: 2008-11-14

  • yaml.load will now load empty documents (bug submitted by Jeff Klingner).
  • as.yaml will return '[]' for empty objects (patch submitted by Brendan O’Connor).
  • as.yaml will now create valid YAML for a list that contains a list of length one (bug submitted by Gabor Grothendieck).