Publications by Thinking inside the box
Annoucing the Rcpp Gallery
Earlier this morning, JJ announced what we had been working on for the last few weeks: the Rcpp Gallery. Now, as our luck will have it, the Rcpp-devel list received his message but did not transmit it for an apparent mail system outage at WU Vienna: no sign at the Gmane archive of rcpp-devel or in the personal mailboxen of myself or anybody I sp...
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digest 0.6.1
digest version 0.6.1 is now on CRAN, and I will push the corresponding version into Debian shortly. Duncan Murdoch added AES support, and helped me fix two issues which (annoyingly) made the Rout.save output differ on another platform. CRANberries provides the usual summary of changes to version 0.6.0. As usual, our package is available via th...
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Rcpp reaches 100 dependents on CRAN
With the arrival earlier today of the stochvol package onto the CRAN network for R, our Rcpp project reached a new milestone: 100 packages have either a Depends:, Imports: or LinkingTo: statement on it. The full list will always be at the bottom of the CRAN page for Rcpp; I also manually edit a list on my Rcpp page. But for the record as of t...
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RcppArmadillo 0.3.6.2
A new Armadillo version 3.6.2 came out yesterday, and the corresponding RcppArmadillo version is now on CRAN. Changes are mostky incremental: Changes in RcppArmadillo version 0.3.6.2 (2013-01-29) Upgraded to Armadillo release Version 3.6.2 faster determinant for matrices marked as diagonal or triangular more fine-grained handling of 64 b...
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Introducing the BH package
Earlier today a new package BH arrived on CRAN. Over the years, Jay Emerson, Michael Kane and I had numerous discussions about a basic Boost infrastructure package providing Boost headers for other CRAN packages (and yes, we are talking packages using C++ here). JJ and Romain chipped in as well, and Jay finally took the lead by first creating a ...
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digest 0.6.2
digest version 0.6.2 came out a few days ago as an almost immediate follow-up to release 0.6.1. We used paste0() in a few places, and this is only available with newer versions of R. To not introduce as somewhat unnessecary dependency, we reverted this to plain old paste(). CRANberries provides the usual summary of changes to version 0.6.1. As ...
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RcppExamples 0.1.6
A pure maintenance release 0.1.6 of RcppExamples was made two weeks ago, and never announced. We merely moved the NEWS.Rd file into the proper location in the inst/ directory, and, while were at it, mentioned the new Rcpp Gallery in the DESCRIPTION file. Thanks to CRANberries, there is the standard diff to the previous release 0.1.5. Questions,...
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The Rcpp Gallery and my <em>Seinfeld Streak</em>
A good three weeks ago, we introduced the Rcpp Gallery. While this is a joint effort by several of us on the Rcpp team, the backend was conceived and implemented entirely by JJ who also bootstrapped it with same first content, drawing on posts by Hadley, Romain and myself. As the How to contribute page makes plain, this is all backed by GitHub...
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The Rcpp Gallery and my
A good three weeks ago, we introduced the Rcpp Gallery. While this is a joint effort by several of us on the Rcpp team, the backend was conceived and implemented entirely by JJ who also bootstrapped it with same first content, drawing on posts by Hadley, Romain and myself. As the How to contribute page makes plain, this is all backed by GitHub...
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New Rcpp page on upcoming events — including Master Class in New York
Lots of exciting things are happening with and around Rcpp. I just added a new page about Upcoming Events to the recently-created Rcpp site. This events page has lots to cover: an upcoming talk at Columbia on March 8 (details still TBD), a day-long workshop in New York on March 9, a possible participation at a CERN / ROOT conference in Switze...
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