NEWS

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BiocGenerics 0.58.0

BUG FIXES

• Fix updateObject() on numeric_version objects. See https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocGenerics/issues/23

BiocGenerics 0.56.0

BUG FIXES

• Fix updateObject() infinite recursion on an environment that contains itself.
• Small tweak to updateObject(data.frame).

BiocGenerics 0.54.0

NEW FEATURES

• Add longForm() S4 generic. See https://github.com/waldronlab/MultiAssayExperiment/issues/333 for some context.
• Add paste2() S4 generic, with methods defined for ordinary vectors and arrays. Also add add_prefix() and add_suffix(), two simple wrappers around paste2() provided for convenience and code readability.
• Define setequal() S4 generic with generics::setequal as default method.

SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

• Add CRAN package generics to Depends field. The default methods for S4 generics union(), intersect(), and setdiff() now are generics::union(), generics::intersect(), and generics::setdiff(), respectively. See '?BiocGenerics::setops' for more information.

BiocGenerics 0.52.0

NEW FEATURES

• Define the OutOfMemoryObject class (VIRTUAL class with no slots).
• Add S4 generic containsOutOfMemoryData() and implement various methods. See '?containsOutOfMemoryData' for the details.
• Add S4 generic saveRDS() and a default method that is just a thin wrapper around base::saveRDS() that issues a warning if the object to serialize contains out-of-memory data.