stringi 1.7.8 on CRAN

A maintenance release of stringi is now available on CRAN.

Changes since v1.7.6:

• [DOCUMENTATION] Paper on stringi has been published in the Journal of Statistical Software.

• [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.