RProtoBuf

R Interface to the 'Protocol Buffers' 'API' (Version 2 or 3)

v0.4.26 · Mar 6, 2026 · GPL (>= 2)

Description

Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format. Google uses Protocol Buffers for almost all of its internal 'RPC' protocols and file formats. Additional documentation is available in two included vignettes one of which corresponds to our 'JSS' paper (2016, <doi:10.18637/jss.v071.i02>. A sufficiently recent version of 'Protocol Buffers' library is required; currently version 3.3.0 from 2017 is the tested minimum.

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r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang	NOTE	439s
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NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang

compiled code

File ‘RProtoBuf/libs/RProtoBuf.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘R_UnboundValue’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

compiled code

File ‘RProtoBuf/libs/RProtoBuf.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘R_UnboundValue’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

compiled code

File ‘RProtoBuf/libs/RProtoBuf.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘R_UnboundValue’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

compiled code

File ‘RProtoBuf/libs/RProtoBuf.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘R_UnboundValue’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.

NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

compiled code

File 'RProtoBuf/libs/x64/RProtoBuf.dll':
  Found non-API call to R: 'R_UnboundValue'

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See 'Writing portable packages' in the 'Writing R Extensions' manual,
and section 'Moving into C API compliance' for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.

NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

installed package size

installed size is 33.6Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    libs  32.2Mb

NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is 34.2Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    libs  32.7Mb

NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is  5.5Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    libs   4.1Mb

NOTE r-patched-linux-x86_64

compiled code

File ‘RProtoBuf/libs/RProtoBuf.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘R_UnboundValue’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.

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NOTE 11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

installed package size

installed size is 33.6Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    libs  32.2Mb

NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is 34.2Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    libs  32.7Mb

NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is  5.5Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    libs   4.1Mb

Reverse Dependencies (12)

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new 0.4.26 Mar 10, 2026

updated 0.4.26 ← 0.4.25 diff Mar 6, 2026

updated 0.4.25 ← 0.4.24 diff Jan 10, 2026

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updated 0.4.21 ← 0.4.20 diff Dec 12, 2023

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updated 0.4.13 ← 0.4.12 diff Nov 2, 2018

updated 0.4.12 ← 0.4.11 diff Jul 10, 2018

updated 0.4.11 ← 0.4.10 diff Oct 2, 2017

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updated 0.4.8 ← 0.4.7 diff Jan 16, 2017