Publications by Thinking inside the box
RcppBDT 0.2.2
A new maintenance release of the RcppBDT package is now on CRAN. There is no new code in this; it mainly accomodates a request by CRAN to standardize the \code{Imports:} and \code{Depends:} relationships in the \code{DESCRIPTION} file. We also updated the build process now that we can use Rcpp 0.11.0. Having said that, there is a lot of new code...
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RcppArmadillo 0.4.100.0
A new minor upstream release 4.100 of the Armadillo templated C++ library for linear algebra was finalised by Conrad yesterday. I rolled up the corresponding RcppArmadillo release 0.4.100.0 which is now on CRAN and will go to Debian shortly. Changes in RcppArmadillo version 0.4.100.0 (2014-02-28) Upgraded to Armadillo release Version 4.100.0 ...
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RcppEigen 0.3.2.0.2
A new bug-fix / maintenance release of RcppEigen is now on CRAN. RcppEigen brings the Eigen C++ template library for linear algebra to R. This release updates the RcppEigen.package.skeleton() function for a needed change in R, updates and extends the code example used by this skeleton package generator, and updates a few things now that Rcpp 0...
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RcppEigen 0.3.2.1.0 and 0.3.2.1.1
Shortly after I prepared the bug-fix / maintenance release 0.3.2.0.3 of RcppEigen, the code based was updated to the recent Eigen release 3.2.1 by Doug Bates. I wrapped this up in release 0.3.2.1.0 of RcppEigen. The next day, Brian Ripley noticed a build failure on Solaris; and followed up with a better ifdef test for one problematic line which...
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RcppArmadillo 0.4.100.2.1
Conrad made a first bug-fix release 4.100.2 for Armadillo, his templated C++ library for linear algebra, yesterday. See below for details on the the small set of changes. This was quickly wrapped up in a new RcppArmadillo release 0.4.100.2.1 release. I also added some first steps towards turning C++11 on. This can be used now with a pre-release ...
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RQuantLib 0.3.12
A new bug-fix / maintenance release RQuantLib 0.3.12 is now on CRAN and in Debian. While adding the plugin feature, I was too optmistic about finding the quantlib-config script. This is now tested more carefully. A few things related to building with Rcpp were updated as well now that Rcpp 0.11.0 is out. Thanks to CRANberries, there is also a ...
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QuantLib 1.4 packages also available for Ubuntu and Windoze
QuantLib release 1.4 came out a couple of days ago. Sticking with standard practice, I immediately updated the Debian packages I have been maintaining for over a dozen years now, and corresponding binaries are available for Debian flavors unstable (“sid”) and testing (“jessie”). I also updated my RQuantLib package accordingly (though it ...
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Rcpp 0.11.1
A new minor release 0.11.1 of Rcpp is now on the CRAN network for GNU R; binaries for Debian have also been uploaded. The release fixes a number of bugs that have come up since the 0.11.0 release in January, but also brings some extensions. See the NEWS file section below for details, or the ChangeLog file in the package and on the Rcpp Cha...
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RProtoBuf 0.4.1
A new bug-fix release release 0.4.1 of RProtoBuf, is now on CRAN. RProtoBuf provides GNU R bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers (“Protobuf”) data encoding library used and released by Google, and deployed as a language and operating-system agnostic protocol by numerous projects. Murray once more shouldered most of the actual burden an...
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Upcoming Rcpp talks and workshops
A number of talks about Rcpp are scheduled over the next couple of months: Our sixth internation conference R/Finance, will take place May 16 and 17, 2014, at UIC in Chicago. See the current draft agenda for details of the program—which once again will be preceded by one-hour workshops. And as in the past, I will offer a one-hour gentl...
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