stringi: Fast and portable character string processing in R

1.7.7 (2022-07-02)

• [DOCUMENTATION] Paper on stringi has been published in the Journal of Statistical Software, see https://dx.doi.org/10.18637/jss.v103.i02.

• [BUGFIX] #473, #397: Fixed buffer overflow in stri_dup. stri_dup, stri_paste, ... fail more graciously on attempts to generate strings of length >= 2^31 each.

• [BUILD TIME] #480: Using Rf_isNull instead of isNull.

• [DOCUMENTATION] #462: That the numeric=TRUE collator does not handle negative numbers correctly is now mentioned in the manual.