[Rprotobuf-yada] can't assign raw to field of type bytes

[Murray Stokely]

Oops that should be :

install.packages("RProtoBuf", repos = "http://R-Forge.R-project.org").



On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Murray Stokely <murray at stokely.org> wrote:

> Actually I see that I had a local change that was not submitted even to
> r-forge that fixes this issue.
>
> I've just submitted it, added more tests, and I think we are nearly ready
> to roll a 0.3.2 release onto CRAN.  In the mean time, could you please try
> installing it from the latest version on R-Forge :
>
> install.packages("HistogramTools", repos = "http://R-Forge.R-project.org
> ").
>
>             - Murray
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Murray Stokely <mstokely at google.com>wrote:
>
>> On Dec 14, 2013 2:05 PM, "Whitney Jackson" <whjackson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I've run into an issue where I can't assign raw values to RProtoBuf
>>> fields of type bytes. See the following proto and R files for an example.
>>>
>>> test.proto: http://pastebin.com/0n4dcYV7
>>> test.R: http://pastebin.com/1C3KBVqh
>>>
>>> From what I can tell, only R character vectors of length 1 can be
>>> assigned to bytes fields. That seems like a bug since protobuf bytes fields
>>> are meant to hold arbitrary bytes and R character vectors aren't (null
>>> chars are prohibited for example).
>>>
>>> I'd appreciate any advise that anyone might have.
>>>
>>
>> What version of RProtoBuf are you using?  Your example works fine on the
>> version I am using, but that may include some fixes we haven't yet pushed
>> to CRAN.
>>
>> If the latest version from CRAN still has this problem, can you try the
>> latest version from R-Forge?
>>
>> I'll add a unit test to runit.bytes.R for this behavior.
>>
>>             - Murray
>>
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