blob 1.3.0 (2026-01-13)

Testing

• The upcoming vctrs update changes details on how subset assignment with NULL works. This motivated the minor version bump (@DavisVaughan, #65).

Bug fixes

• Fix argument consistency between S3 generics and methods.

Chore

• Upkeep (@MikeJohnPage, #55).

blob 1.2.4 (2023-03-17)

Bug fixes

• Fix argument consistency between S3 generics and methods.

blob 1.2.3 (2022-04-10)

• as_blob(NA_character_) returns a missing blob instead of as_blob("NA") (#26, @michaelchirico).

blob 1.2.2 (2021-07-23)

• Moved to “stable” lifecycle stage.
• Remove is_vector_s3() (#19).

blob 1.2.1

• Inline prettyunits.
• vec_ptype2.hms.default() forwards to vec_default_ptype2() for compatibility with vctrs 0.2.1.

blob 1.2.0

Breaking changes

• The blob class is now based on list_of(raw()) from the vctrs package (#11). This adds support for vec_cast() and vec_ptype2(). Some operations (such as subset assignment) are now stricter. The new_blob() constructor permits safe and fast construction of blob objects from a list, and validate_blob() checks an existing object for conformity with the rules.

• The new is_blob() deprecates the existing is.blob(). as.blob() is deprecated in favor of vec_cast() or the new as_blob() (which is just a thin wrapper around vec_cast()).

• Indexing a vector of blobs out of bounds now raises an error. Use NA as index to create a NULL blob.

blob 1.1.1 (2018-03-24)

• Now suggesting pillar instead of importing tibble, and using colored formatting with the prettyunits package with B instead of b as units (#7, #9).

• The blob class can now be used for S4 dispatch.

• Calling c() on blob objects returns a blob.

blob 1.1.0 (2017-06-17)

• New maintainer: Kirill Müller.

• Added as.blob.blob()and as.data.frame.blob() methods (#3).

• Size of very large blobs is displayed correctly.

blob 1.0.0

• Initial release.