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

[Whitney Jackson]

I just installed the latest and greatest (r547) from svn and it works now.
I'll upgrade from CRAN whenever 0.3.2 is available there. Thanks for fixing
this!


On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Whitney Jackson <whjackson at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks for the help! Sadly, I'm still seeing the error:
>
> "cannot set non-repeated field to vector of length > 1"
>
> According to sessionInfo() I'm now running  RProtoBuf_0.3.1.1
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Murray Stokely <mstokely at google.com>wrote:
>
>> 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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