vroom 1.7.0

• vroom.tidyverse.org is the new home of vroom's website, catching up to the much earlier move (April 2022) of vroom's GitHub repository from the r-lib organization to the tidyverse. The motivation for that was to make it easier to transfer issues between these two closely connected packages.

• The path parameter has been removed from vroom_write(). This parameter was deprecated in vroom 1.5.0 (2021-06-14) in favor of the file parameter (#575).

• The function vroom_altrep_opts() and the argument vroom(altrep_opts =) have been removed. They were deprecated in favor of vroom_altrep() and altrep =, respectively, in v1.2.0 (2020-01-13). Also applies to vroom_fwf(altrep_opts =) and vroom_lines(altrep_opts =) (#575).

• vroom() now supports reading from a remote file that uses any of the supported compression formats, by downloading to a temporary (compressed) file. This is a new feature for .bz2, .xz, and .zip and fixes .gz bugs arising from problematic behaviour of base::gzcon() (#400, #553, tidyverse/readr#1555, tidyverse/readr#1553).

• mtcars.csv.tar.gz and mtcars-concatenated.csv.gz are 2 new example files that are handy internally, at least, for exercising code related to reading compressed files.

• vroom now offers to install the archive package if it's needed to complete the user's request (tidyverse/readr#1334).

• vroom takes the recommended approach for phasing out usage of the non-API entry points SETLENGTH, SET_TRUELENGTH, and ATTRIB (#582, #596).

• Unclosed quotes (e.g., a,b,"c with no closing ") now trigger a warning, instead of silent data truncation. The affected row is also newly included in the returned data, which should facilitate troubleshooting (#484, tidyverse/readr#1539, tidyverse/readr#1491).

• Columns specified as having type "number" (requested via col_number() or "number" or 'n') or "skip" (requested via col_skip() or "skip" or _ or -) now work in the case where 0 rows of data are parsed (#427, #540, #548).

• vroom(), vroom_lines(), and vroom_fwf() now close and destroy (instead of leak) the connection in the case where opening the connection fails due to, e.g., a nonexistent URL (#488).

• If there is insufficient space for the tempfile used when reading from a connection (affects delimited and fixed width parsing, from compressed files and URLs), that is now reported as an error and no longer segfaults (#544).

• vroom(..., n_max = 0, col_names = c(...)) with a connection (compressed file, URL, raw connection) no longer produces a "negative length vectors are not allowed" error or crashes R (#539).

• vroom_fwf(..., n_max = 0) with a connection no longer segfaults (#590).