Publications by Thinking inside the box
RcppArmadillo 0.3.920.1
Along with the Rcpp 0.10.5 release yesterday, a new minor release 0.3.920.1 of RcppArmadillo came out. It is based on Conrad’s Armadillo 3.920.0 plus a minor fix, and uses some of the new Rcpp features. Both package is now on CRAN and also in Debian. This releases contains both a nice set of new Armadillo features as well as some nice additio...
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New BH release 1.51.1-3
A new release of the BH package is now on CRAN and its mirrors. BH provides (a subset of) the Boost library for C++, particularly the (large) parts delivered as pure template headers not requiring linking. When this package is installed, an R package developer can deploy it at build-time via a simple LinkingTo: BH declaration (which, despite th...
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Introducing the CRAN Repository Policy Watch
CRAN is the repository network for R. It is a resounding success with (as of right now) almost 5000 packages, and growth rate which has been estimated (cf John Fox’s keynote at useR! a few years ago) to be near 40% per year. We as R community members owe a great deal of thanks to the CRAN maintainers, and the R Core team. The tight integratio...
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Rcpp 0.10.6
A new maintenance release 0.10.6 of Rcpp is now on the CRAN network for GNU R; binaries for Debian have been uploaded as well. This version ties up a number of smaller loose ends, but also adds a few new things, particularly John’s new exposeClass. Details are as usual in the NEWS extract below, and also in the ChangeLog file in the package ...
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RcppArmadillo 0.3.920.3
Conrad released a bug fix version 3.920.3 for his Armadillo library. So I prepared a new release 0.3.920.3 of RcppArmadillo which is nor on on CRAN and also already in Debian. Note that we skipped interim version .2 which addressed an Atlas linking issue which doesn’t affect us in the R context as we get LAPACK and BLAS via the R process we ge...
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Website and blog updated
Earlier this year the blog had its tenth anniversary. I had meant to celebrate the occassion by revamping the site and blog a little. Having set up the updated R/Finance site, the Rcpp Gallery and Rcpp sites as well as the much-needed overhaul of the html side of the CRANberries RSS feed (which also integrates it with the static blog compiler I ...
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RcppCNPy 0.2.1
Version 0.2.1 of RcppCNPy is now on CRAN earlier. This version is a minor upgrade with a few small changes as detailed in the NEWS file: Changes in version 0.2.1 (2013-11-28) Synchronized code with the cnpy repository Added new function to test from R whether integers supported Updated tests for integer support, if available Updated v...
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RcppCNPy 0.2.2
Right on the heels of release 0.2.1 of RcppCNPy, a new version 0.2.2 is now on CRAN. RcppCNPy uses the CNPY library by Carl Rogers to provide R with easy read and write access to NumPy files. The reason for the new version that I had experimented with a different way to test endianness (as needed for the NumPy file headers) but accidentally se...
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Recent Rcpp talks at U Chicago / Booth and U Kansas
In early October, I had an opportunity to talk about Rcpp and RcppArmadillo at the Statistical Computing Seminar at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. And then two weeks ago, I had an invitation to talk at the Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis at the University of Kansas where I covered similar material as we...
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digest 0.6.4
digest version 0.6.4 is now on CRAN and in Debian. This is a pure maintenance release which should help with a build issue affecting users on Solaris. CRANberries provides the usual summary of changes to version 0.6.3. Our package is available via the R-Forge page leading to svn and tarball access, my digest page, the local directory here as ...
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