A new small package of mine just hit CRAN. The tl package wraps the (also very new) rspdlite package (announced last week) to offer a lightweight and consistent logging interface from both R and C++ that is also ‘tiny, fast, capable’ thanks to rspdlite.

The rspdlite announcement is a good place to get a first glimpse at that package; the upstream spdlite repo has all the details (for the C++ side of things). With tl we follow the same idea that our [spdl][spdl] package introduced: a simple consistent interface via just the tl:: prefix and the appropropriate logging level. In other words tl::debug("Alert -- foo is at '{}'", foo) will work from both R and C++ (given a variable foo, and in the case of C++ an extra semicolon). Just give it a try, and see how it goes. The package is still young and small.

The NEWS entry for this release is also very simple and just announces that we have a release. More details are in the ChangeLog and the GitHub repo.

Changes in version 0.0.1 (2025-06-17)

• Initial CRAN upload

This post by Dirk Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box blog. If you like this or other open-source work I do, you can sponsor me at GitHub.

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