Publications by Thinking inside the box

RcppArmadillo 0.2.3

15.06.2010

The minor bug-fix release 0.2.3 of RcppArmadillo went to CRAN this morning. It adds a tiny bit of configuration to permit Sun Studio / suncc to successfully build the package. There is no code change, and no configuration change for the other platforms. Thanks for Brian Ripley for additional testing, and of course for running those build insta...

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Rcpp 0.8.3

29.06.2010

A new version 0.8.3 of Rcpp is now CRAN and in Debian. It comes about three weeks after the 0.8.2 release. And even though we promised to concentrate on documentation, it contains a raft of new features: The addition of what we dub Rcpp sugar: some syntactic sugar based on clever use of expression templates that lets us write C++ expr...

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Rcpp 0.8.4

15.07.2010

Romain and I wrapped up release 0.8.4 of Rcpp last Friday. However, given the time of year, it only appeared on CRAN this morning, and then only after some prodding as CRAN processing is more or less closed this week and probably next. This release builds upon release 0.8.3. Highlights include changes to the sugar framework for highly expressive...

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useR 2010 at NIST in Gaithersburg

24.07.2010

This past week, the annual R user conference useR! 2010 took place at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD (which is a tad northwest of Washington, DC). Kate Mullen and her team of local organizers did a truly tremendous job in putting together a very smooth conference attended by almost 500 people. It is...

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Rcpp 0.8.5

26.07.2010

A new release (now at version 0.8.5) of Rcpp is now on CRAN and in Debian. This release constitutes a quick follow-up to the last release 0.8.4 which we got out just before CRAN closed for summer vacations. Some fixes were made right after last release: two harmless warnings from the help file parser of the development version of R are now add...

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RcppArmadillo 0.2.4

29.07.2010

A new release of RcppArmadillo is now on CRAN. RcppArmadillo makes it easy to write highly efficient and highly readable C++ code for linear algebra (based on Armadillo) in R extensions (using Rcpp for the interface). This release upgrades the included Armadillo version to 0.9.52 (see here for Conrad’s high-level changes). We had to make two m...

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inline 0.3.6

02.08.2010

A couple of days ago, Romain released inline release 0.3.6 to CRAN. This is a maintenance release with no user-visible changes. However, as it captures compiler errors more directly, it should help us debug Rcpp on recalcitrant platforms such as Solaris with suncc where we have no shell access and no build robot (though that may be changing wit...

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RcppExamples 0.1.1

02.08.2010

On Friday, I quickly provided a new release of RcppExamples, our example package for using Rcpp, to CRAN. Very little content has been updated — and a new TODO file even notes that we need to add more documentation for the new Rcpp API. And update existing documentation as lots has changed since the initial release in March. But at least thi...

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RQuantLib 0.3.3

04.08.2010

A new release (now at version 0.3.3) of RQuantLib is now on CRAN and in Debian. RQuantLib combines (some of) the quantitative analytics of QuantLib with the R statistical computing environment and language. Many of the changes in this new version are internal. The code was re-written using the new Rcpp API throughout, and the build system was ...

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RcppArmadillo 0.2.5

05.08.2010

Hot on the heels of RcppArmadillo release 0.2.4 a few days ago comes a new release 0.2.5 which is now on CRAN. RcppArmadillo makes it easy to write highly efficient and highly readable C++ code for linear algebra (based on Armadillo) in R extensions (using Rcpp for the interface). This release upgrades the included Armadillo version to Conrad’...

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