0.9.5

Release 0.9.5 of the TileDB R package with support for the TileDB Embedded library version 2.3.3 (or earlier or later: tested with dev, 2.2.9, 2.1.6, 2.0.8)

Entries from the NEWS.md file follow:

tiledb 0.9.5

• This release of the R package builds against TileDB 2.3.3, but has also been tested against previous releases and the development version.

Improvements

• A query condition parser was added for use with standard (non-quoted) R expressions (#267)

• Windows UCRT builds at CRAN are now supported (#268)

• Use of TileDB Embedded was upgraded to release 2.3.2 (#270), and again to 2.3.3 (#280)

• The vacuum and consolidation helper functions now use time stamp support (#271)

• The time-travel array opening support was updated to start and end timestamps (#272)

• Tests for both vacuuming and consolidation 'time traveling' were added (#273)

• Nullable string string attribute support was improved (#274)

• Ascii columns attribute support was added (#276)

• The query parser heuristic was improved to cover ascii strings (#277)

• Array opening uses improvemed array state consideration skippingg re-openings for better performance (#279)

Bug Fixes

• Domain size information gathering has been corrected for uint32, uint64, and int64 attribute domains (#266)

• Timesteps for time-traveling unit tests were adjusted to not trip up macOS continuous integration tests (#275)

• String array buffer size calculation was corrected also allowing for all-string arrays (#278)

0.9.4

Release 0.9.4 of the TileDB R package with support for the TileDB Embedded library version 2.3.1 (or earlier or later: tested with 2.3.0, 2.2.9, 2.1.6, 2.0.8)

Entries from the NEWS.md file follow:

tiledb 0.9.4

• This release of the R package builds against TileDB 2.3.1, but has also been tested against previous releases and the development version.

Improvements

• The build defaults to TileDB Embedded 2.3.* (unless another version is found during build, or explicitly selected) (#258, #264)

• Query condition support is available for TileDB 2.3.0 or later, allowing (possibly multiple) numerical constraints on attributes (#261)

• Multi-dimensional arrays can now be returned from (dense) arrays via a new option (#263)

• The package is now natively supported on Arm64 ("M1") macOS system (#264)

Bug Fixes

• Dense arrays with more than two dimensions can now be written (#260)

0.9.3

A new release 0.9.3 of the TileDB R package with support for the TileDB Embedded library version 2.2.9 (or earlier or later: tested with 2.3.0, 2.1.6, 2.0.8)

Entries from the NEWS.md file follow:

tiledb 0.9.3

• This release of the R package builds against TileDB 2.2.9, but has also been tested against previous releases as well as the development version.

Improvements

• Continuous integration at GitHub is now faster as suggested packages are no longer installed (#250)

• Arrays can now be written incrementally via the higher-level replacement function arr[] <- obj (#251)

• The default column layout for arrays written via fromDataFrame is now column-order (#254)

Bug Fixes

• The call to vaccum not correctly calls the library function to vaccum instead of the consolidation function (#252)

• When several columns are selected via selected_ranges, a potentially necessary reordering is done for a query (#253)

• Dense subarrays can be written for tiledb_array (#256)

0.9.2

A new release 0.9.2 of the TileDB R package with support for the TileDB Embedded library version 2.2.9 (or earlier or later: tested with 2.3.0, 2.1.6, 2.0.8)

Entries from the NEWS.md file follow:

tiledb 0.9.2

• This release of the R package builds against TileDB 2.2.9, but has also been tested against previous releases as well as the development version.

Improvements

• Matrix objects can now be returned under range selections (#247)

• Matrix return get turned on and off with setter / getter functions (#248)

Bug Fixes

• Unit tests of character columns in data frames accomodate R versions prior to R 4.0.0 in all cases (#243)

• Dimension reduction for attribute-selected columns was incorrect in some cases (#245)

• Attribute-selected columns were using incorrect dimension data types in some cases (#246)

0.9.1

A new release 0.9.1 of the TileDB R package with support for the TileDB Embedded library version 2.2.9 (or earlier or later: tested with 2.3.0, 2.1.6, 2.0.8)

Entries from the NEWS.md file follow:

tiledb 0.9.1

• This release of the R package builds against TileDB 2.2.9, but has also been tested against previous releases as well as the development version.

Improvements

• A new vignette show use of TileDB array via RMariaDB and the MyTile extension to MariaDB (#221)

• Matrices can now be returned directly from suitable two-dimensional TileDB arrays (#225)

• More data types are supported in the non-empty domain accessor function (#229)

• The DESCRIPTION, README.md and pkgdown site were updated (#230)

• Creation of TileDB arrays from data.frame object has been made more robust (#238)

• On startup, versions numbers of the R package and the TileDB Embedded library are displayed (#239)

• The pkgdown website now shows the ChangeLog derived from this NEWS file (#240)

Bug Fixes

• Two tests with datetime comparisons which fail only on one macOS system are now conditional (#216)

• Result sets with all-character column now fall back to estimated result sizes (#217)

• Setup of support for duplicate values in sparse arrays has been corrected (#223)

• Error messages concerning an array types and selection mismatch are now clearer (#224)

• Writes from data.frame objects to dense array revert back to column-major order (#226)

• Tests of sparse writes to dense matrices now use UNORDERED layout (#228)

• Data.frame returns of selected columns now coversion dimensions as well (#231)

• Schema creation has been generalized and made more robust (#232)

• Selection of dimension ranges now maps date and datetime values correctly (#233, #241)

• Selection and setting of dimension ranges has been generalized and made more robust (#235, #236)

0.9.0

A new release 0.9.0 of the TileDB R package with support for the TileDB Embedded library version 2.2.4 (or later, also tested with 2.1.6 + 2.0.8)

Entries from the NEWS.md file follow:

0.9.0

• This release of the R package builds against TileDB 2.2.4, but has also been tested against two previous release series as well as the development version.

Improvements

• The older implementations tiledb_dense and tiledb_sparse are now marked as deprecated in favor of tiledb_array. No removal date is set or planned yet, but it is recommended to migrate to new code. (#180)

• Updated the underlying TileDB library to use TileDB 2.1.2 on macOS and Linux (when no system library is found) (#181)

• There is extended support for array creation directly from DataFrame objects. (#182)

• Internal TileDB performance statistics can now be exported 'raw' in JSON format (for TileDB versions greater than 2.0.3). (#183, #186)

• The vignette was updated with respect to the preferred used of tiledb_array. (#184)

• The Hilbert cell layout added recently to TileDB Embbeded is supported. (#185)

• Virtual File System functions now use the default VFS object which allows for a simpler interface (#187)

• TileDB Array Dimension support has been extended to more data types (#188)

• Datetime support for Dimensions and Attributes has been extended (#189)

• The API coverage has been increased alongside an update of the documentation (#190)

• The Array schema can now be accessed and printed directly from a URI (#191)

• The accessor for the estimated array result size was updated with the updaded API (#192)

• Initial Arrow support for importing and exporting vector has been added (#193, #199)

• Support for the default TileDB Embedded library was set to 2.1.3 and 2.1.4 (#194, #195)

• The package documentation was updated and extended (#196)

• Support for 'time-traveling' access to arrays was extended (#197)

• Support for the default TileDB Embedded library was set to 2.1.5 and 2.1.6 (#198, #200)

• Support for the default TileDB Embedded library was set to 2.2.0 and 2.2.1 (#201, #202)

• The vignettes were updated and extended (#203)

• The fromDataFrame() function was extended (#204)

• Some unit tests were conditioned on having TileDB Embedded 2.1.0 or later (#205)

• Support for the default TileDB Embedded library was set to 2.2.2 and 2.2.3 (#206, #208)

• The default TileDB Embedded library version is now set centrally (#207)

• Support was added to write and read sparse matrices directly via higher-level functions (#209)

• Arrow array and schema allocation and deallocation helper functions were added (#210)

• Support for Nullable vectors has been added (#211)

• Support for the default TileDB Embedded library has been set to 2.2.4 (#212)

• Small tweaks to timezone and factor settings in unit tests, and vignette (#213, #214, #215)

0.8.2

A new release 0.8.2 of the TileDB R package with extended support for the TileDB Embedded library version 2.1.1 and later.

Entries from the NEWS.md file follow:

0.8.2

• This release of the R package builds against TileDB 2.1.1, but has also been tested against previous releases as well as the development version.

Improvements

Bug Fixes

• The tiledb_stats_reset() function is now exported, and tiledb_stats_print() has been re-added as a wrapper to tiledb_stats_dump() (#174)

• Configuration options for compute and input/output concurrency set only the new TileDB 2.1 configuration options; documentation on how to checking values has been expanded. (#175)

• The download.file() use now (re-)sets the timeout to the standard value to accomodate uses where a lower value may be set such as some CRAN builders (#176)

• Build scripts have been updated for use of TileDB 2.1.1 on Windows, macOS and Linux (when no system library is found) (#178)

0.8.1

A new release 0.8.1 of the TileDB R package with extended support for the TileDB Embedded library version 2.1.0 and later.

Entries from the NEWS.md file follow:

0.8.1

• This release of the R package supports TileDB 2.1.0, but has also been tested against the previous release TileDB 2.0.8.

Improvements

• R-based metadata accessors have been extended to also support tiledb_array arrays (#169)

• configure now also checks the hardware platform before attempting a download of a prebuilt library (#170)

• SystemRequirements: in the DESCRIPTION file has been expanded (#170)

Bug Fixes

• A typo in the manual page source, copied three more times, has been corrected (#167)

0.8.0

A new release 0.8.0 of the R package with extended support for the TileDB Embedded library version 2.0.*.

Entries from the NEWS.md file follow:

0.8.0

• This release of the R package supports TileDB 2.0.8, but has also been tested against the previous release TileDB 1.7.7.

Improvements

• A new function limitTileDBCores() controls resource use, it is being used in tests (#139)

• The function tiledb_get_context() is now exported (#140)

• A new S4 class tiledb_vfs provides access to the virtual file system functionality (#140)

• Functionality of selected_ranges() was extended (#142)

• More (signed and unsigned) integer types are supported as dimension types in sparse arrays (#143), as well as in dense arrays (#144) and as attributes (#144)

• A new S4 class tiledb_query offers access to the query object functionality in the underlying library (#145, #161)

• Examples are running with a lowered thread count setting per CRAN Policies (#152)

• External pointer objects now use explicitly set finalizers (#149)

• Users can explicitly select a TileDB Embedded shared library built to be used (#151)

• Compile-time configuration was refactored and changes (#158)

• Windows builds are now possible also using TileDB Embedded build 2.0.8 (#159, #164)

• Continuous integration now uses Azure for macOS and Linux (#160) and GitHub Actions for Windows (#162,#165)

Bug Fixes

• Conda builds no longer call install_name_tool (#133, #146)

• Downloading the prebuild library accomodates multitple targets per architecture (#150)

• The number of TBB threads will only be set once (#158)

0.7.1

A minor release 0.7.1 of the R package with extended support for the TileDB 2.0.*. Entries from the NEWS.md file follow:

0.7.1

• This release of the R package supports TileDB 1.7.7 and TileDB 2.0.5

Improvements

• Range selection for tiledb_array objects can get/set matrices defining range (#132)

• The show methods are now consistently exported and documented (#134)

• TileDB is listed as copyright owner in DESCRIPTION as well (#134)

• The selected_ranges method for tiledb_array types was improved, and more tests were added (#135)

• C++ source code was rearranged slightly with respect to possible API deprecations in the libary (#136)

• A very simple example for using TileDB Cloud from R was added (#136)

• The helper scripts for the package build are now in the tools/ directory (#137)

• The (optional) library download now relied on suggested R packages 'jsonlite' and 'curl' (#137)

Bug Fixes

• A character conversion when retrieving array metadata resulting in an out-of-bounds reads has been corrected (#137)