Publications by Thinking inside the box
RcppGSL 0.1.1
A pure maintenance release of RcppGSL—our interface package between R and the GNU GSL using our Rcpp package for seamless R and C++ integration—is now on CRAN It contains no new code, but smoothes one or two edges in the build process and noticed by the newest versions of R CMD check. It also adds vignette from the unit tests as some of ou...
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Rcpp workshop / master class on April 28 in Chicago
I realized I never announced this on the blog, so without further ado…. Rcpp Workshop in Chicago on April 28, 2011 This year’s R/Finance conference will be preceded by a full-day masterclass on Rcpp and related topics which will be held on Thursday, April 28, 2011, on the University of Illinois at Chicago campus. Join Dirk Eddelbuette...
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RcppClassic 0.9.1
Another pure maintenance release, this time of RcppClassic, the package supporting the deprecated older classic Rcpp API defined in the earlier 2005 to 2006 releases, is now on CRAN It contains no new code, but smoothes one or two edges in the build process and noticed by the newest versions of R CMD check, just like yesterday’s RcppGSL relea...
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Review of ‘R in a Nutshell’ by J Adler now in JSS
Volume 40 of of the (electronic) Journal of Statistical Software just came out. It contains my short review of Josef Adler’s already pretty popular R in a Nutshell from O’Reilly. You can my review as a pdf via this local preprint, or by visiting the JSS page of the review and its official copy. Related To leave a comment for the author, p...
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The new R compiler package in R 2.13.0: Some first experiments
R 2.13.0 will be released tomorrow. It contains a new package by R Core member Luke Tierney: compiler. What a simple and straightforward name, and something that Luke has been working on for several years. The NEWS file says o Package compiler is now provided as a standard package. See ?compiler::compile for information on how to us...
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RProtoBuf 0.2.3
A maintenance release 0.2.3 of RProtoBuf is now on CRAN. RProtoBuf provides GNU R bindings for the Google Protobuf data encoding library used and released by Google. The NEWS file entry follows below: 0.2.3 2011-04-12 o Protect UINT64 and INT64 with '#ifdef RCPP_HAS_LONG_LONG' which itself is valid with either g++ And cou...
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Rcpp 0.9.4, and a paper in the Journal of Statistical Software
A brand new 0.9.4 release of Rcpp is now on CRAN and Debian. This version contains an improvement to loading and initialization of Rcpp modules, a bug fix for vectors of factors, another build issue fix as well as (per common practice with JSS) citation information for the article Rcpp: Seamless R and C++ Integration which is now Volume 40, I...
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Another nice Rcpp example
While preparing my slides for the Rcpp workshop this Thursday, I had wondered about more nice examples motivating Rcpp. So I posed a quick question on the rcpp-devel list. And I received a few friendly answers. My favourite, so far, was a suggestion by Lance Bachmeier who sent me a short script which used both R and C++ (via Rcpp) to simulate a...
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RcppArmadillo 0.2.19
Last Monday, Conrad Sanderson released version 1.2.10 of his most excellent Armadillo templated C++ library for linear algebra; I followed up the same day with version 0.2.19 of our RcppArmadillo wrapper for R based on our Rcpp library. However, the chief gatekeeper at CRAN took a well-deserved vacation last week, and with that it arrived only ...
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RInside 0.2.4
After several months, it was time for a new release 0.2.4 of RInside which is now on CRAN. RInside is a set of convenience classes which facilitate embedding of R inside of C++ applications and programs, using the classes and functions provided by the Rcpp R and C++ integration package. This new release contains a few small internal changes t...
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