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ipaddress

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Velocity0.0

Data Analysis for IP Addresses and Networks

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IP address vectors for R that hit 1.0 and then went quiet.

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◆Current state
ipaddress gives R first-class IPv4 and IPv6 vector types with the arithmetic, netmask and subnet operations that come with them, backed by C++. The 1.0.0 release in 2023 was the deliberate breaking cleanup: one result per input from the hostname functions, vectorised subnets(), several arguments forced to be named, and a country_networks() downloader added. Since then the only release has been a testthat deprecation fix.
◆Where it's heading
The package reached the interface it wanted and stopped. The five releases before 1.0.0 were almost entirely CRAN check compliance — deprecated C++ calls, HTML5 notes, a Windows toolchain change — with functional work confined to a couple of releases that shed heavy dependencies. That pattern, long compliance runs punctuated by rare interface work, is what the feed shows now.
◆Prediction
On this cadence the next release is most likely another CRAN or upstream-testing compliance patch; nothing in the entries indicates new functionality in progress.

◆Recent moves

  1. 0y ago

    testthat deprecation warnings resolved

    A single-line fix for deprecation warnings from the testing framework. The first release in two and a half years, and it changes nothing a user of the package would notice.

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  2. 3y ago

    1.0.0 breaks the interface to make it vector-native

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    The stabilising release: hostname lookups return exactly one result per input with _all() variants for the rest, subnets() takes vectors, several arguments become name-only, and country_networks() adds registry downloads. It settles the package's shape and marks the point after which development effectively stopped.

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  3. 3y ago

    Deprecated C++ sprintf calls replaced

    Clears CRAN check warnings about deprecated sprintf() use in the C++ layer. One of the run of compliance-only releases that fills this feed between functional work.

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  4. 4y ago

    roxygen upgrade to clear HTML5 check notes

    A documentation toolchain bump to satisfy CRAN's HTML5 validation. No user-visible change.

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  5. 4y ago

    Windows compiler toolchain compatibility for R 4.2

    Rebuilds against the new Windows toolchain shipping with R 4.2. Necessary for the package to keep installing, invisible to anyone using it.

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  6. 5y ago

    Hotfix for CRAN check warnings

    A one-line compliance hotfix with no described user-facing effect. Four consecutive releases of this kind precede the 1.0.0 interface work.

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