CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

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[0.3.8] - 2023-10-18

• PR #1303: v0.3.8 - new release
• PR #1302: Reenable batch for release
• PR #1301: Add Documentation for UDF Unit Testing and Mocking
• PR #1232: Starting the change for XGBoost integration into EVADb.
• PR #1294: fix: improve testcase
• PR #1293: fix: make the table/function catalog insert operation atomic
• PR #1295: feat: add support for show databases
• PR #1296: feat: function_metadata supports boolean and float
• PR #1290: fix: text_summarization uses drop udf
• PR #1240: Add stable diffusion integration
• PR #1285: Update custom-ai-function.rst
• PR #1234: Added basic functionalities of REST apis
• PR #1281: Clickhouse integration
• PR #1273: Update custom-ai-function.rst
• PR #1274: Fix Notebook and Ray testcases at staging
• PR #1264: SHOW command for retrieveing configurations
• PR #1270: fix: Catalog init introduces significant overhead
• PR #1267: Improve the error message when there is a typo in the column name in the query.
• PR #1261: Remove dimensions from TEXT and FLOAT
• PR #1256: Remove table names from column names for `df
• PR #1253: Collection of fixes for the staging branch
• PR #1246: feat: insertion update index
• PR #1245: Documentation on vector stores + vector benchmark
• PR #1244: feat: create index from projection
• PR #1233: GitHub Data Source Integration
• PR #1115: Add support for Neuralforecast
• PR #1241: Bump Version to v0.3.8+dev
• PR #1239: release 0.3.7

[0.3.7] - 2023-09-30

• PR #1239: release 0.3.7
• PR #1238: Revert "add stable diffusion integration"
• PR #1111: add stable diffusion integration
• PR #1228: fix: improve messaging and fix bugs
• PR #1230: Force fresh .testmondata cache
• PR #1229: Fix staging CI setup
• PR #1225: fix: merging dataframes with None value
• PR #1223: fix: native db bugs
• PR #1209: feat: add testmon in pytest
• PR #1201: Improve Documentation For Model Training
• PR #1210: chore
• PR #1212: fix: 1199 enhance similarity search test to make index is used
• PR #1211: fix: evadb_client fails on launch
• PR #1203: fix: chatgpt exact cache
• PR #1208: fix: if create table fails, we were not cleaning the entry in catalog
• PR #1204: feat: print error msg if creating built-in functions failed
• PR #1180: Adding SET statement for configuration management
• PR #1198: Chroma vector store
• PR #1162: Adding support for Sklearn linear regression in EvaDB
• PR #1196: bug: fix links in model training notebook
• PR #1167: Model training Colab Notebook
• PR #1185: Add support for function calls without input arguments: `FUNC
• PR #1192: Skip pinecone test if pinecone is not installed
• PR #1191: fix: unclosed file error
• PR #1190: fix: release change log
• PR #1153: feat: integrate with pgvector
• PR #1135: Pinecone vector store
• PR #1165: bug: drop bug fix
• PR #1168: LLM app fixes
• PR #1182: Bump Version to v0.3.7+dev
• PR #1181: releass: bump a version further to skip cached wheel

[0.3.6] - 2023-09-21

• PR #1181: releass: bump a version further to skip cached wheel
• PR #1179: fix: release change log
• PR #1177: fix: release action
• PR #1176: fix: release
• PR #1174: fix: trigger build
• PR #1173: fix: release on success only and credential to pass protection rule
• PR #1172: Release v0.3.5
• PR #1169: fix: hotfix for the failing staging build
• PR #1159: Load query exception for invalid file format
• PR #1164: Fix model train with Ludwig on Colab
• PR #1155: feat: add support for enabling ORDER BY on non projected columns
• PR #1158: Adding Algolia search to Eva-DB Docs
• PR #1146: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION
• PR #1154: feat: add github actions to sync and release wheel
• PR #1123: Updates evadb apps
• PR #1157: chore
• PR #977: chore
• PR #1137: feat: add support for if not exists in create db
• PR #1132: docs: add home sale forecast usecase into documentation
• PR #1136: feat: support order by using the projection columns
• PR #1030: Add model inference documentation
• PR #1134: ci: staging build fix
• PR #1124: fix: third-party test
• PR #1118: Add a model forecasting notebook in tutorials
• PR #1125: feat: create table in integration table from evadb select query
• PR #1122: fix: flaky ci unit tests
• PR #1113: fix: update docs and notebooks
• PR #1114: feat: Improve db integration
• PR #1108: Set the right output column type for forecast functions
• PR #1107: Added null handling and tests for case insensitive string matching
• PR #1087: Support SELECT expr; which does not require FROM table
• PR #1090: Making Ludwig and HuggingFace case insensitive
• PR #1027: Adding support for MariaDb as backend for EvaDB
• PR #1101: Fix forecasting integration test
• PR #1094: Fixes date and frequency issues in forecasting
• PR #1096: Rename l_plan and p_plan
• PR #1091: fix: evadb is now consistent with lowercase
• PR #1092: feat: Drop database
• PR #1082: feat: create index if exists
• PR #1088: fix: df merging issues when multiple predicates
• PR #1086: Update parameters documentation for forecast
• PR #1084: Fix column name related issue for Forecast functions
• PR #1073: fix: create index from single document
• PR #1080: pandas.DataFrame.fillna is deprecated
• PR #1060: Bump v0.3.5+dev
• PR #1062: Update UDF to function in model-forecasting.rst

[0.3.4] - 2023-09-06

• PR #1057: fix: staging build fix
• PR #1056: fix: update notebook outputs
• PR #1053: docs: AI powered join
• PR #1054: fix: lint for notebooks
• PR #1051: fix: create function forecast due to incorrect merging
• PR #1047: fix: update udf to function in notebooks and docs
• PR #1046: fix: add missing needed file
• PR #1043: Hot fix forecasting
• PR #1026: Removing quotes from udf_metadata_key
• PR #969: Forecasting in EVA
• PR #1034: feat: UDF migrates to Function
• PR #1035: Fix all doc issues
• PR #1029: Fix the link in new-data-source.rst
• PR #1023: Feat : Sqlite Database Handler
• PR #1019: feat: add CI for MySQL
• PR #1025: Add mysql as an available data source into documentation
• PR #965: msyql integration added
• PR #1018: fix: install pkg and ignore tutorials
• PR #1016: Revamp getting started.
• PR #1014: Extend the circle ci link check to include README.md
• PR #1015: Enable Coverage Check
• PR #1008: fix: CREATE TABLE persists entry in the catalog even if the query fails
• PR #1007: fix: create Table fails when projecting column from native table
• PR #1006: fix: update more verbose message for creating database
• PR #991: feat: add use case of LLM on food review running on colab
• PR #997: fix: improve error msg
• PR #996: Fix all BUILD warning and link validation in the documentation
• PR #986: docs: Update README.md
• PR #983: doc: fix nav bar

[0.3.3] - 2023-08-29

• PR #983: doc: fix nav bar
• PR #982: fix: batch merge causing redundant row
• PR #981: fix: use the same interface
• PR #979: docs: added logo
• PR #980: docs: Update README.md
• PR #975: Simplify the ludwig dependency
• PR #972: feat: improve dev doc
• PR #971: Revert "feat: Integrating thirdy party Slack API "
• PR #967: feat: Integrating thirdy party Slack API
• PR #966: Developer guide for new structure data source integration
• PR #949: feat: improve circle ci
• PR #946: Support `SELECT Func

[0.3.2] - 2023-08-25

• PR #953: docs: Fix User Reference and Dev Guide
• PR #952: docs: Update PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
• PR #951: docs: updated overview and usecases
• PR #950: docs: improve the docs
• PR #943: Auto drop row id for `CREATE UDF xxx FROM
• PR #945: fix: circle ci pip + setuptools conflict
• PR #942: feat: select from native database
• PR #921: fix: more detailed YouTube QA app blog generator
• PR #940: feat: update ci test for third party integration
• PR #941: chore
• PR #935: Ludwig-based model train and tune support.
• PR #937: feat: integration for pg_handler added
• PR #939: Hot Fix for Fuzzy Join
• PR #936: Use statement
• PR #938: pydantic > 2 conflicts with ray
• PR #932: feat: postgres integration - create database
• PR #931: Revert "Revert "Fix benchmark documentation
• PR #931: Revert "Fix benchmark documentation
• PR #931: Fix benchmark documentation
• PR #930: Text summarization benchmark with MindsDB and EvaDB
• PR #929: Fix problems found when running hugging face text summariztion model on large input.
• PR #928: feat: improve the use case doc
• PR #927: chore
• PR #925: chore
• PR #926: chore
• PR #924: fix tutorials 11-similarity-search-for-motif-mining.ipynb
• PR #922: feat : Run EvaDB on Postgres
• PR #919: chore: redirect to evadb
• PR #918: docs: updates
• PR #916: Bump v0.3.2+dev
• PR #915: Release 0.3.1

[0.3.1] - 2023-06-30

• PR #913: fix: motif_mining query
• PR #895: fix: Renaming Cursor Functions
• PR #911: Added comments for ChatGPT UDF.
• PR #908: feat: migrate to sqlalchemy 2.0
• PR #910: Bump v0.3.1+dev
• PR #907: feat: table filtering based on multiple keywords UDF

[0.3.0] - 2023-06-27

• PR #907: feat: table filtering based on multiple keywords UDF
• PR #906: ci: add 3.11
• PR #905: feat: remove ocr
• PR #904: feat: chatgpt prompt arg
• PR #903: Bump v0.3.0+dev

[0.2.15] - 2023-06-26

• PR #898: fix: index creation better error msg
• PR #817: fix: GPU ids and degree of parallelism
• PR #897: feat: add support for 3.11
• PR #885: feat: pandas qa sample app
• PR #896: app: youtube channel qa app
• PR #893: feat: cleanup create mat view
• PR #892: feat: update notebooks
• PR #894: fix: Youtube app

[0.2.14] - 2023-06-24

• PR #887: fix: Notebooks fix
• PR #889: fix: ocr donut model
• PR #886: doc: improve youtube qa app doc
• PR #878: feat: make ray optional
• PR #884: test: disable reuse tests
• PR #883: test: update tests
• PR #880: feat: pandas qa
• PR #882: feat: adding more functions to Python API
• PR #881: docs: minor updates
• PR #863: feat: youtube qa app support analyzing a local video
• PR #877: notebooks: updates
• PR #875: Bump v0.2.14+dev
• PR #873: notebooks: update notebooks

[0.2.13] - 2023-06-17

• PR #873: notebooks: update notebooks
• PR #872: Bump v0.2.13+dev
• PR #836: feat: OCR UDF based on Donut Hugging Face Model

[0.2.12] - 2023-06-16

• PR #836: feat: OCR UDF based on Donut Hugging Face Model
• PR #865: feat: reduce package dependencies
• PR #870: refactor: Moved col_name -> name in TupleValueExpression
• PR #867: fix: minor fix to the catalog utils.
• PR #866: feat: app testing
• PR #864: test: support for testing apps
• PR #860: Summary : 'progressive' filter while downloding streams in youtube_qa app.
• PR #861: feat: add chunk_size and chunk_overlap similar to langchain
• PR #859: ci: Macos build
• PR #853: feat: chatgpt test with real API key
• PR #858: Bump v0.2.12+dev

[0.2.11] - 2023-06-10

• PR #856: Bump v0.2.11+dev
• PR #855: Release 0.2.10
• PR #854: fix: update sentence transformer udf

[0.2.10] - 2023-06-10

• PR #852: feat: optional import of decord, fix for sentence feature extractor
• PR #851: Bump v0.2.10+dev

[0.2.9] - 2023-06-09

• PR #849: app: add a text and mp4 file
• PR #833: app: Youtube qa app now supports long videos
• PR #848: app: minor updates
• PR #847: app: minor updates to privateGPT app
• PR #841: app: private gpt
• PR #845: docs: Index.rst docs
• PR #844: Bump v0.2.9+dev

[0.2.8] - 2023-06-09

• PR #842: docs: add pdf qa picture
• PR #840: docs: update docs
• PR #839: docs: updates
• PR #838: Summary : Added missing API documentation
• PR #834: refactor: move 'EVA' to 'EvaDB'
• PR #814: feat: benchmark question answering v1
• PR #831: Bump v0.2.8+dev
• PR #819: feat: update tutorials to use Python API

[0.2.7] - 2023-06-07

• PR #819: feat: update tutorials to use Python API
• PR #828: feat: drop index
• PR #830: docs: updating docs based on Python API
• PR #826: fix: orderby bug
• PR #821: feat: adding python API drop and drop_udf
• PR #810: feat: grouping paragraphs in documents and samples in audio
• PR #800: test: api testing -> similarity between text and relevance keyword
• PR #818: fix: update youtube qa app with new api updates
• PR #803: feat: saliency maps
• PR #815: chore
• PR #816: docs: renamed apis
• PR #804: feat: create udf interface for pythonic api
• PR #813: feat: Expose apis
• PR #795: Import config should persist nothing
• PR #808: Bump v0.2.7+dev

[0.2.6] - 2023-06-02

• PR #807: Bump v0.2.6+dev

[0.2.5] - 2023-06-02

• PR #801: feat / doc: example app that summarizes any youtube video with Python api
• PR #796: docs: Updating Docs based on feedback
• PR #787: feat: enable ray by default
• PR #777: feat: Hugging face entity extraction
• PR #789: feat: create table from select query
• PR #794: docs: bump python for docs
• PR #793: refactor: Create .git-blame-ignore-revs
• PR #784: feat: support relational apis
• PR #774: Improve create mat
• PR #785: fix: update mnist notebook
• PR #781: docs: minor updates
• PR #780: feat: add mnistCNN as builtin udf
• PR #779: docs: many minor updates
• PR #776: docs: update getting started page
• PR #775: docs: style updates
• PR #773: fix: gracefully handle missing config values
• PR #771: chore: improve logging of error messages
• PR #768: feat: create materialized view infers column name
• PR #770: tutorials: hugging face text summarizer, text classifier, + pdf loader
• PR #769: feat: load pdf
• PR #767: ci: improve docker support
• PR #751: feat: integration with langchain
• PR #764: feat: db apis made more pythonic
• PR #765: test: fix test case
• PR #753: chore
• PR #748: feat: common image transformation UDFs
• PR #731: feat: extensible parallel execution
• PR #750: release: automating the release script
• PR #745: fix docs build
• PR #744: docs: fix links
• PR #743: fix: hot fix for similarity notebook
• PR #700: docs: similarity search tutorial
• PR #741: docs: test links in documentation with linkcheck
• PR #740: docs: minor updates to read-the-docs
• PR #707: feat: add support for third party vector stores
• PR #738: feat: allow users to specify host and port while launching server
• PR #733: docs: enable spellcheck on all python files, notebooks, and docs
• PR #566: feat: object tracking
• PR #720: fix: similarity test
• PR #726: ci: bump up oldest python version from 3.7 to 3.8
• PR #729: docs: update notebooks on landing page
• PR #724: release: Bump v0.2.3+dev

[0.2.4] - 2023-05-17

[Added]

• PR #700: docs: similarity search tutorial
• PR #741: docs: test links in documentation with linkcheck
• PR #707: feat: add support for third party vector stores
• PR #738: feat: allow users to specify host and port while launching server
• PR #733: docs: enable spellcheck on all python files, notebooks, and docs
• PR #566: feat: object tracking
• PR #720: fix: similarity test
• PR #726: ci: bump up oldest python version from 3.7 to 3.8

[Changed]

• PR #740: docs: minor updates to read-the-docs
• PR #729: docs: update notebooks on landing page

[0.2.3] - 2023-05-11

[Added]

• PR #708: tutorial: toxicity classifier
• PR #694: tutorials: ChatGPT + Whisper + Hugging Face tutorial notebook
• PR #690: feat: make keywords case insensitive in parser
• PR #679: feat: support for Yolov8 pipelines
• PR #676: fix: Enable image and video tables to project Identifier column
• PR #663: feat: add caching support for udfs in projection
• PR #659: feat: Add support for audio based hf models
• PR #655: feat: LLM-based remote UDFs -- support for OpenAI Chat Completion
• PR #651: tutorial: license plate detection notebook to demonstrate fuzzy join
• PR #645: feat: logical filter cache
• PR #644: chore: Add optimizer timeout
• PR #643: feat: Add audio sampling rate

[Changed]

• PR #712: fix: image loading
• PR #719: fix: speed up testcases
• PR #717: ci: updates to ci pipeline
• PR #718: bug: move from yolo to HF for reuse testcases
• PR #711: docs: Update README.md / typo fix
• PR #706: bug: catalog reset
• PR #704: test: add message to help debug an issue
• PR #701: bug: modify the catalog reset method
• PR #702: fix: stop raising error if category or key missing in config.
• PR #698: docs: improve UDF creation documentation
• PR #699: chore: rename ChatGPT UDF
• PR #696: docs: updated UDF documentation based on decorators
• PR #697: misc: add github templates
• PR #695: docs: typo in executor_utils.py
• PR #691: fix: cache indices after filtering
• PR #689: style: removing gender detection nb
• PR #686: ci: reduce number of cache shards
• PR #687: docs: Add link to HuggingFace demo application -- image segmentation pipeline
• PR #684: ci: upgrades to ci pipeline
• PR #681: ci: add model cache for linux builds
• PR #678: fix: HF GPU support
• PR #675: bug: opencv now returns rgb
• PR #674: fix: ray ci fix

[0.2.1] - 2023-04-25

[Added]

• PR #664: Add Tutorial Notebook for HuggingFace
• PR #668: fix: Remove detoxify to fix pip install evadb
• PR #660: Bump Eva-Decord to Not Need ffmpeg
• PR #657: docs: benefit of caching and predicate reordering

[0.2.0] - 2023-04-16

[Added]

• PR #647: feat: LOAD CSV Notebook
• PR #626: docs: Documentation for creating UDFs using Decorators.
• PR #599: feat: EvaDB x HuggingFace
• PR #621: feat: Ray integration

[Changed]

• PR #649: fix: Expr bugs
• PR #628: test: adding support for pytest-xdist
• PR #633: fix: Install Decord from EvaDB-Fork
• PR #642: Build fix
• PR #641: fix: Unnest bug

[0.1.6] - 2023-04-05

[Added]

[Changed]

• PR #636: fix: Timeout Error #636
• PR #635: fix: updates to restore build
• PR #634: fix: Pandas deprecated append call
• PR #632: fix: Minor code refactor

[0.1.5] - 2023-04-03

[Added]

• PR #623: feat: Adding support for AudioStorageEngine
• PR #550: feat: support key-value cache for function expressions
• PR #604: feat: LIKE operator
• PR #622: feat: sqlalchemy tests
• PR #618: feat: Predicate UDF Reordering Optimization
• PR #617: feat: Add UDF Cost Catalog
• PR #616: feat: Add support for iframe based video sampling
• PR #606: feat: Add metadata to UDFs in catalog
• PR #589: feat: Fuzzy Join support in EvaDB
• PR #601: feat: Decorators for UDF
• PR #619: chore: reducing coverage loss
• PR #595: doc: Adding CatalogManager, INSERT and DELETE documentation
• PR #605: feat: verify udf consistency by matching the file checksum
• PR #600: feat: allow UDF's to be created with any name
• PR #583: feat: Add symlinks to data files instead of copying
• PR #580: feat: enable loading videos from s3
• PR #587: feat: Delete and Insert operators for structured data
• PR #582: server: asyncio refactoring
• PR #579: fix: directory of eva-arch
• PR #578: docs: update project name

[Changed]

• PR #581: fix: debugging issuse in yolov5
• PR #625: Bug: Reader fixes
• PR #611: fix: insert and delete executor
• PR #615: fix: dropbox links fixed
• PR #614: Fix: updated dropbox links
• PR #602: fix: EvaDB on Ray bugs
• PR #596: fix: Raise Error on Missing Files during Load
• PR #593: fix: Windows path error in S3 testcases
• PR #584: Rename Array_Count to ArrayCount
• PR #581: fix: debugging issue in yolov5

[Deprecated]

• PR #609: refactor: removing upload code and bug fixes

[Removed]

[0.1.4] - 2023-01-28

[Added]

• PR #559: Added Order By + Limit to FaissIndexScan optimization rule.
• PR #552: Added expression signature.
• PR #551: Added support for aggregation, toxicity detection, and querying based on video timestamps.
• PR #557: Update documentation for notebook.
• PR #562: Added benchmark and server tests.
• PR #565: Updated rule and expression implementations.
• PR #560: Added UDF for ASL recognition.

[Changed]

• PR #558: fix: emotion analysis colab link.
• PR #561: fix: Circlie CI error.
• PR #553: fix: secondary index and udf expression signature in index.

[Deprecated]

[Removed]

[0.1.3] - 2023-01-02

[Added]

• PR #506: Added support for windows and macos
• PR #492: Moved to a lark-based parser
• PR #536: Lateral function call to linear data flow
• PR #535: Similarity UDF

[Changed]

• PR #544: fix: catalog improved file and function names
• PR #543: fix: server relaunch does not load metadata tables

[Deprecated]

[Removed]

[0.1.2] - 2022-12-17

[Added]

• PR #533: feat: load img support
• PR #514: feat: Add support open command
• PR #513: feat: Load regex support
• PR #508: feat: Yolov5 Object detector UDF
• PR #505: fix: support multiple evadb version.
• PR #477: feat: Load syntax change

[0.1.1] - 2022-11-20

[Added]

• PR #498: docs: more details
• PR #495: docs: improve read-the-docs
• PR #488: docs: fix notebooks
• PR #486: docs: update notebooks + banner
• PR #476: feat: GPU Jenkins support

[0.1.0] - 2022-11-12

[Added]

• PR #474: feat: Support for action queries in Eva
• PR #472: feat: Replace Json with Pickle Serialization
• PR #462: ci: Enable GPU support for Jenkins CI
• PR #454: docs: adding gifs to readme
• PR #445: feat: Replace Spark+Petastorm with Sqlite+SqlAlchemy
• PR #444: feat: Explain command support
• PR #426: feat: Simplify PytorchAbstractClassifierUDF interface

[Removed]

• PR #445: feat: Replace Spark+Petastorm with Sqlite+SqlAlchemy

[0.0.12] - 2022-10-18

[Added]

• PR #424: Jenkins CI
• PR #432: Emotion palette notebook
• PR #419: Updated Dockerfile
• PR #407: Movie analysis notebook
• PR #404: feat: Lateral join + sampling
• PR #393: feat: EvaDB config updates

[Contributors]

Thanks to @gaurav274, @xzdandy, @LordDarkula, @jarulraj, @Anirudh58, @Aryan-Rajoria for contributions!

[0.0.10] - 2022-09-22

[Added]

• PR #373: Reduce number of file transactions in configuration (#373)
• PR #372: bugfix: Make ConfigurationManager read and update operate on eva.yml (#372)
• PR #367: Dataset support (#367)
• PR #362: Automatically adding Tutorial Notebooks to docs (#362)
• PR #359: Layout for EvaDB Documentation (#359)
• PR #355: docs: Adding instructions for setup on M1 Mac (#355)
• PR #344: Updated the tutorial notebooks (#344)
• PR #342: Support for NOT NULL (#342)
• PR #340: Tutorial: Gender analysis (#340)
• PR #339: Bug: Fix CROP UDF (#339)
• PR #334: bug: fix face detector (#334)
• PR #331: Simplify Environment Configuration
• PR #316: feat: Predicate Pushdown across join and Fix Materialization Bugs

[Contributors]

Thanks to @gaurav274, @jarulraj, @xzdandy, @LordDarkula, @Anirudh58, @Aryan-Rajoria, @adarsh2397, and @IshSiva for contributions!

[0.0.9] - 2022-08-13

[Added]

• PR #323: Fix EvaDB Configuration
• PR #321: CI: Caching dependencies
• PR #315: Unified load
• PR #313: Logo update
• PR #309: UNNEST operator
• PR #307: Feature extractor UDF
• PR #303: Face detector and OCR extractor UDFs

[Contributors]

Thanks to @gaurav274, @jarulraj, @xzdandy, @LordDarkula, @eloyekunle, and @devshreebharatia for contributions!

[0.0.6] - 2022-08-05

[Added]

• PR #295: Improve Error Messages and Query responses
• PR #292: Updating read the docs + website
• PR #288: Update README.md

[0.0.3] - 2022-07-31

[Added]

• PR #283: Updated README
• PR #278: Updated development guide
• PR #275: Updated setup.py
• PR #273: Predicate pushdown for video table
• PR #272: Add support for DROP and SHOW UDFs
• PR #262: Error message enhancement
• PR #276: Website updates
• PR #257: Interpreter updates

[Contributors]

Thanks to @gaurav274, @jarulraj, @xzdandy, @EDGAhab, and @kaushikravichandran for contributions!