NEWS

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data.sketches 0.1.0 (2026-07-09)

• Initial release. Provides an R interface to the Apache DataSketches C++ library:

  • Quantile sketches: kll_doubles(), kll_floats(), req(), and tdigest_double().
  • Cardinality sketches: hll(), cpc(), and theta() (with set operations).
  • Frequency sketches: frequent_items() and count_min().
  • Tuple sketches: array_of_doubles() (with set operations).
  • Sampling sketches: varopt() and ebpps().
  • Filters: bloom_filter().

  All sketches provide $update(), $merge(), $summary(), $inspect(), and native $serialize() / bytes = round-tripping, plus format(), print(), as.character(), and summary() methods.