Publications by Thinking inside the box
Rcpp 0.9.7
A fresh maintenance release version 0.9.7 of Rcpp went onto CRAN and into Debian earlier today. This release contains two contributed fixes. The first, suggested by Darren Cook via the rcpp-devel mailing list, corrects how we had set up exceptions specifications, reflecting a bit of Java-think on our part. The idiom is generally discouraged ...
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Reminder: One week til Rcpp class in San Francisco
Just a quick note to remind everyone that the Rcpp class in San Francisco, which I am holding together with Revolution Analytics, will take place a week from today. We are happy to report that the number of registrations has met our initial targets. But as a number of open slots remain, we have decided to offer a few places at discounts of 25% ...
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Rcpp talk at Seattle RUG next month
The Seattle R User Group was kind enough to invite me to give a talk about R, C++ and Rcpp. So if you can make it to the Thomas building of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA, on December 7, I would love to see you there. I have some ideas about freshening up the presentation(s) based on material Romain and I have used in ...
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RcppArmadillo 0.2.30 (and 0.2.29)
A few days ago, Conrad Sanderson released the first pre-release version of what will be Armadillo 2.4.*, giving it the 2.3.91 release handle. We folded this into RcppArmadillo release 0.2.30, with Romain making a few adjustments to our template structure to accomodate Conrad’s underlying changes in Armadillo itself. Armadillo is a wonderfull...
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RPostgreSQL 0.2-0, 0.2-1 and an unsung Open Source hero
RPostgreSQL goes back to a topic suggestion I had made for the Google Summer of Code 2008, and specifically for the R Project participation that year. And Sameer Kumar Prayaga (whom I then mentored for the project) did a fine job that summer putting together a working framework of package connecting R and the excellent PostgreSQL database system....
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A Story of Life and Death. On CRAN. With Packages.
The Comprehensive R Archive Network, or CRAN for short, has been a major driver in the success and rapid proliferation of the R statistical language and environment. CRAN currently hosts around 3400 packages, and is growing at a rapid rate. Not too long ago, John Fox gave a keynote lecture at the annual R conference and provided a lot of quanti...
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RcppArmadillo 0.2.31
Conrad Sanderson just released the second pre-release 2.3.92 of what will be Armadillo 2.4.*. This is now in RcppArmadillo release 0.2.31 which is already on CRAN as of this morning. The NEWS entries summarising the changes for both are below: 0.2.31 2011-11-28 o Upgraded to Armadillo test release 2.3.92 "Loco Lounge Lizard (Beta 2)" ...
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Wicked Webapps with R, err, Wt
A few months ago, I had blogged about using R inside of Qt. This used our RInside package for embedding the statistical programming environment and language R inside of a C++ application, and further relies on our Rcpp package for R and C++ integration and object mapping. The example was simple yet powerful: a reimplementation of the standard G...
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RcppArmadillo 0.2.32
Conrad Sanderson made the official 2.4.0 release of Armadillo last evening. This was wrapped into RcppArmadillo release 0.2.32 which arrived on CRAN earlier today. The NEWS entries summarising the changes since the 2.2.* series, we already saw most of this with the two prerelease 0.2.30 and 0.2.31: 0.2.32 2011-12-04 o Upgraded to Armad...
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RcppArmadillo 0.2.33
Conrad Sanderson made a first 2.4.1 bug fix release of Armadillo. We now have RcppArmadillo release 0.2.33 on CRAN which contains it. earlier today. The NEWS entry below summarises the changes. 0.2.33 2011-12-07 o Upgraded to Armadillo release 2.4.1 * added .resize() * fix for vector initialisation Courtesy of CRANb...
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