Publications by Thinking inside the box
Rcpp 0.8.0
Romain and I are happy to announce the release of Rcpp version 0.8.0. It has been uploaded to CRAN. A Debian upload is delayed until the now-required inline package is accepted into Debian. The source package is also available from here. This release brings a number of changes that are detailed below. Of particular interest may be the much mo...
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RcppArmadillo 0.2.0 (and 0.2.1)
With the Rcpp 0.8.0 release on Monday, Romain, Doug and I were able to follow-up with a new RcppArmadillo release. RcppArmadillo uses Rcpp (and a few dozen lines of ‘glue’) to provide a transparent interface from R to Conrad Sanderson’s impressive Armadillo library for linear algebra. This new release offers a number of key improvements: ...
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WU Wien presentations
Last week I had the opportunity to spend a few days at the Institute for Statistics and Mathematics of the WU Vienna / Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien. On Thursday, I gave a seminar on Rcpp and RInside introducing all the recent work with Romain on making R and C++ integration easier. Both (compact) handout and (full) presentation slides are now pos...
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JPM Chase Corporate Challenge 2010
It’s Memorial Day weekend so it was time for the Chicago’s JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge on Thursday. The weather was glorious, the usual 20-some thousand runners participated and a good time was had. Work had arranged for a nice tent, food, music — and a bunch of people showed up and enjoyed it. Nice one. This time we all got chip-...
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Bike The Drive 2010
Memorial Day weekend is also time for the annual Bike The Drive in Chicago. This time only half the household got up bright and early and enjoyed Lakeshore Drive free of cars. A highly recommended event. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Thinking inside the box . R-bloggers.com o...
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inline 0.3.5
Yesterday morning, Romain pushed inline release 0.3.5 to CRAN. This is some ways a continuation of the 0.3.4 release I had made in December. That release had opened the door for the wide use of inline in our Rcpp package. And just how Rcpp has grown, we now have needs beyond the initial change. See the post on Romain’s blog for details, but ...
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Rcpp 0.8.1
Early this morning I sent Rcpp version 0.8.1 off to CRAN and Debian. In the meantime, Romain has already provided a very nice blog post about it. There are a few fairly visible new things in this release. As we want to focus the next few minor releases on completing the documentation, we started by adding a total of four (!!) new vignettes: ...
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RcppArmadillo 0.2.2
Following the Rcpp 0.8.1 release we made yesterday, we released RcppArmadillo release 0.2.2 this morning. RcppArmadillo uses Rcpp (and some ‘glue’ code) to provide a transparent interface from R to Conrad Sanderson’s impressive Armadillo library for linear algebra. This release works well with the most recent inline release 0.3.5. One ca...
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Rcpp 0.8.2
A bug fix release Rcpp version 0.8.2 is now on CRAN and Debian. It contains some fixes for Sun compiler, but no user-visible changes and complements the Rcpp 0.8.1 release made Tuesday. Our thanks to Brian Ripley for help with the portability tests for that platform. It will be good to get an autobuilder for pre-emptive testing for that platfor...
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Beancounter minor bug fix release 0.8.10
A few month after the 0.8.9 release, we have another small update to beancounter. This version fixes a minor infelicity in the manual page (thanks to an Ubuntu and then Debian bug report) as well as a small coding bug where ‘USD’ was hard-coded when the user-defined default home currency should have been used. The new version is now in Debia...
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