NEWS

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RITCH 0.1.30 (2026-04-21)

• fix CRAN comments
• replace \dontrun{} examples with executable examples or \donttest{}
• avoid writing to user working directory by default in write-related helpers and examples/tests (download_sample_file(), download_stock_directory(cache = TRUE), gzip_file())

RITCH 0.1.29

• fix failing CRAN NOTEs (URL + unneeded files)

RITCH 0.1.28

• fix test for some platforms to avoid CRAN archiving

RITCH 0.1.27

• fix bug where no messages would be reported for larger files

RITCH 0.1.26 (2024-01-15)

• fix bug where gz functionality would write to user library or current directory

RITCH 0.1.25 (2024-01-13)

• fix Debian segfault when writing to user library

RITCH 0.1.24 (2024-01-11)

• fix printf warnings about wrong argument type

RITCH 0.1.23

• fix compilation warning and limit test cases to two cores (CRAN...)

RITCH 0.1.22

• fix CRAN release by shorten example runtimes

RITCH 0.1.21

• fix long running tasks in read functions

RITCH 0.1.20

• fix bug where tests would fail on some platforms where files are written and not cleaned up
• CRAN release

RITCH 0.1.19 (2023-06-01)

• fix bug in tests on some platforms
• CRAN release

RITCH 0.1.18 (2023-05-30)

• CRAN release

RITCH 0.1.11

• update internal C++ structure, reducing code complexity, increasing read speeds, reducing size of package
• add filter_itch(infile, outfile, ...) to filter directly to files

RITCH 0.1.10

• add write_itch() to write ITCH files
• add filters to read_* functions
• add read functions for all classes