Publications by Thinking inside the box
Slides from Rcpp talk in Sydney
The Sydney Users of R Forum (SURF) were kind enough to host me two days (well, three with the traveling …) ago for an hour-long talk on Rcpp. Apparently, it set a new attendance record for this R user group. My thanks to Louise and Eugene for hosting a terrific meeting, and taking me out for a bite and drink afterwards. I have now put up my ...
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Go home, Feedly, you’re drunk!
With the demise of Google Reader, many of us have scrambled to find alternatives which cover many/most of the features we were used to. For me, synchronised access from web and mobile counts quite high, and I want the (Android) mobile experience to be pretty pleasant too. So with that, and like many other folks, I had shifted over to Feedly. ...
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RProtoBuf 0.3.0
A new release of RProtoBuf — now at version 0.3.0 — arrived earlier on CRAN. RProtoBuf provides GNU R bindings for the Google Protobuf data encoding library used and released by Google. Murray added a lot of new features which merited the increase in the minor number. The NEWS file entry follows below: Changes in RProtoBuf version 0.3 (...
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RcppArmadillo 0.3.900.7
A bug-fix release 3.900.7 of Armadillo was provided by Conrad a few days ago. It has been rolled into a new RcppArmadillo release 0.3.900.7 which, after a brief delay, is now on CRAN and in Debian. The main bug fix is a change in the in-place version of reshape(). This in turn caused the CRAN package Amelia to fail, but some diligent debugging...
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inline 0.3.13
A minor maintenance release of inline is now on CRAN, and has just been already included in Debian. This release contains a patch kindly contributed by Mikhail Umorin which fixes the of \code{cfunction} with lists of signatures and function bodies. The complete NEWS entry is below. Changes in inline version 0.3.13 (2013-08-08) Applied contr...
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RcppArmadillo 0.3.910.0
A new minor release 3.910.0 of Armadillo came out a few days ago. A new RcppArmadillo release 0.3.910.0 was provided rightaway, and after a brief back-and-forth with CRAN (mostly having to do with the non-standard vignette corresponding to our CSDA paper and its use of LaTeX minted) is now on CRAN and also in Debian. Conrad made some standar...
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Slides from Rcpp talk in Chicagp
A couple of days ago, I gave a talk to the Chicago R Users Group which is run ever-so-smoothly by Paul Teetor and Chase Carpenter. The talk provided a brief introduction to Rcpp for R and C++ integration. Slides are now up on my talks / presentations page. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their...
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Slides from Rcpp talk in Chicago
A couple of days ago, I gave a talk to the Chicago R Users Group which is run ever-so-smoothly by Paul Teetor and Chase Carpenter. The talk provided a brief introduction to Rcpp for R and C++ integration. Slides are now up on my talks / presentations page. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their...
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RProtoBuf 0.3.1
Two months to the day after the previous 0.3.0 release of RProtoBuf, we are happy to announce a maintenance release 0.3.1 which has now arrived on CRAN. RProtoBuf provides GNU R bindings for the Google Protobuf data encoding library used and released by Google. Once again, Murray lead this release and added a number improvements. The NEWS fil...
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Rcpp 0.10.5
A new version of Rcpp is now on the CRAN network for GNU R; binaries for Debian have been uploaded as well. Once more, this release brings a large number of exciting changes to Rcpp. Some concern usability, some bring new features, some increase performance; see below for the detailed list. We have now released three updates on a quarterly cy...
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