[MonetDB.R] MonetDB.R 0.9

[Hannes Mühleisen]

Hello MonetDB.R users,

I would like to announce that the new version of MonetDB.R (0.9) was 
just accepted to CRAN after various rounds of testing.

The biggest change is that monet.frame has been moved to GitHub [1] and 
became a separate package. The idea here is that the base connector 
which provides SQL-level connectivity to MonetDB should be slowly 
approaching a stable status, while the features on top of that such as 
monet.frame and possibly soon dplyr are independent. Also, the 
overloading tricks that monet.frame pulls have been found to be breaking 
other people's code.

There has also been a small change in dbWriteTable(), we now use the SQL 
type STRING (a.k.a. CLOB) for R string columns ("character"). The reason 
for this is that we cannot come up with a reasonable character limit for 
VARCHAR by reading the first few rows of a file.

A new feature concerns those of you who use multiple databases managed 
by monetdbd, the MonetDB daemon. The available databases as well as 
their various properties can now be queried using the 
monetdbd.liststatus() function. Please note that you will have to 
configure monetdbd accordingly, see ?monetdbd.liststatus for details.

Apart from this, there have been many bugfixes and small changes, thanks 
to all of you who reported bugs and helped fixing them.

All the best,

Hannes


[1] https://github.com/hannesmuehleisen/monet.frame

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