tidyCpp 0.0.11 on CRAN: Microfix

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:49:00 CDT

And yet another maintenance release of the tidyCpp package arrived on CRAN this morning, just days after previous release which itself came a mere week and a half after its predecessor. It has been built for r2u as well. The package offers a clean C++ layer (as well as one small C++ helper class) on top of the C API for R which aims to make use of this robust (if awkward) C API a little easier and more consistent. See the vignette for motivating examples.

This release restores the small CSS file used by the vignette which we, in a last-second decision, omitted from the previous release. Oddly, it only failed under the ‘oldrel’ i.e. the R from now nearly two years ago. But it was still an unenforced error, and this upload corrects it.

Changes are summarized in the NEWS entry that follows.

Changes in tidyCpp version 0.0.11 (2026-03-17)

Keep a CSS file in the package to allow vignette build on r-oldrel too

Thanks to my CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report for this release. For questions, suggestions, or issues please use the issue tracker at the GitHub repo.

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