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THere is an experimental new ‘configure’ option ‘--with-libdeflate-compression’ that uses ‘libdeflate’ rather than ‘libz’ to (de)compress R objects in lazy-load databases, if the ‘libdeflate’ library and headers are available. Typically tasks spend up to 5% of their time on such operations, although creating lazy-data databases is one of the exceptions.
Build-stage Rd macros \packageAuthor and \packageMaintainer now process
‘Authors@R’, fixing ‘NA’ results when the package ‘DESCRIPTION’ omits
‘Author’ and ‘Maintainer’ fields.