RSQLite 1.0.0

New features

• Updated to SQLite 3.8.6
• Added datasetsDb(), a bundled SQLite database containing all data frames
  in the datasets package (#15).
• Inlined RSQLite.extfuns - use initExtension() to load the many
  useful extension functions (#44).
• Methods no longer automatically clone the connection is there is an open
  result set. This was implement inconsistently in a handful of places (#22).
  RSQLite is now more forgiving if you forget to close a result set - it will
  close it for you, with a warning. It's still good practice to clean up
  after yourself, but you don't have to.
• dbBegin(), dbCommit(), dbRollback() throw errors on failure, rather than
  return FALSE. They all gain a name argument to specify named savepoints.
• dbFetch() method added (fetch() will be deprecated in the future)
• dbRemoveTable() throws errors on failure, rather than returning FALSE.
• dbWriteTable() has been rewritten:
  • It quotes field names using dbQuoteIdentifier(), rather
    than use a flawed black-list based approach with name munging.
  • It now throws errors on failure, rather than returning FALSE.
  • It will automatically add row names only if they are character, not integer.
  • When loading a file from disk, dbWriteTable() will no longer
    attempt to guess the correct values for row.names and header - instead
    supply them explicitly if the defaults are incorrect.
  • It uses named save points so it can be nested inside other
    transactions (#41).
  • When given a zero-row data frame it will just creates the table
    definition (#35).

Changes to objects

• The dbname, loadable.extensions, flags and vfs properties of
  a SqliteConnection are now slots. Access them directly instead of using
  dbGetInfo().

Deprecated and removed functions

• RSQLite is no longer nominally compatible with S (#39).
• idIsValid() is deprecated. Please use dbIsValid() instead.
• dbBeginTransaction() has been deprecated. Please use dbBegin() instead.
• dbCallProc() method removed, since generic is now deprecated.
• Renamed dbBuildTableDefinition() to sqliteBuildTableDefinition()
  to avoid implying it's a DBI generic. Old function is aliased to new with
  a warning.
• dbFetch() no longer numbers row names sequentially between fetches.
• safe.write() is no longer exported as it shouldn't be part of the
  public RSQLite interface (#26).
• Internal sqlite*() functions are no longer exported (#20).
• Removed SqliteObject and dbObject classes, modifying SqliteDriver,
  SqliteConnection, and SqliteResult to use composition instead of multiple
  inheritance.