Changes in version 2.2.0 (2026-03-06) - remove Rf_error from c functions - improve PROTECT/UNPROTECT handling => now bookkeeping is (should be) right whetever the branch Changes in version 2.1.0 (2025-04-18) comply to new CRAN rules - replace R's non-API STRING_PTR with STRING_PTR_RO Changes in version 2.0.0 New features - new function indexthis_vendor to automatically populate a package directory with the to_index function. Requires no user intervention (except in one case). Other - remove Rcpp dependency - remove checking functions to facilitate vendoring Changes in version 1.0.1 (2024-02-01) - fix bug when a numeric vector considered as int contained NA values in a specific branch of the algorithm - fix bug: prevent R objects (converted to character within C) to be garbage collected - add compatibility with R < 4.1.0 Changes in version 1.0.0 (2024-01-26) information - initial version: only contains the function to_index.