Publications by Thinking inside the box
RcppGSL 0.2.1 and 0.2.2
A few days ago, version 0.2.1 of RcppGSL—our interface package between R and the GNU GSL using our Rcpp package for seamless R and C++ integration—appeared on CRAN making it the first release in some time. And it turned that this version tickled an obscure and long-dormant bug under clang which was found on OS X Mavericks—which Kevin Ushe...
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Introducing RPushbullet
A new package of mine appeared on CRAN today: RPushbullet. A few days ago, I had tweeted about a first version available via its GitHub repo. The package is now on CRAN which will make it easier to install for many. You still need an API key (free, after registration at Pushbullet) and one or more target devices to message to: an modern smartph...
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RcppArmadillo 0.4.300.8.0
A new minor / bug fix release 4.300.8 of Armadillo, the templated C++ library for linear algebra, was tagged by Conrad in his SVN repo a few days ago, following earlier snapshots in the 4.300.* series. We had prepared two earlier releases for GitHub but not CRAN in order to accomodate the CRAN maintainer’s desire of “a release every one to t...
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Rcpp 0.11.2
A new minor release 0.11.2 of Rcpp is now on the CRAN network for GNU R, and binaries for Debian have also been uploaded. The release smoothes a few edges on both the Rcpp side itself, as well as on the interaction between Rcpp and R which since release 3.1.0 offers a few new features related to C++11. Kevin added a couple of neat extension...
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Introducing RcppRedis
RcppRedis, another new package of mine, appeared on CRAN a few weeks ago just in time for our annual R/Finance conference. And as of today, we also have Windows binaries thanks to generous help from John Buonagurio who help building the required 32- and 64-bit libraries for Windows, and Uwe Ligges who now installed them for the CRAN and win-buil...
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Introducing pkgKitten: Creating R Packages that purr
A new package pkgKitten is now on CRAN in its infant version 0.1.0. It does only one thing: create R packages that do not suck. Or at least not as much as those created by the (R default) function package.skeleton() which creates files which the very standard, and very recommended, R CMD check then complains about. That is silly. Because each...
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RcppArmadillo 0.4.320.0
While I was out at the (immensely impressive and equally enjoyable) useR! 2014 conference at UCLA, Conrad provided a bug-fix release 4.320 of Armadillo, the nifty templated C++ library for linear algebra. I quickly rolled that into RcppArmadillo release 0.4.320.0 which has been on CRAN and in Debian for a good week now. This release fixes some...
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Introducing RcppParallel: Getting R and C++ to work (some more) in parallel
A common theme over the last few decades was that we could afford to simply sit back and let computer (hardware) engineers take care of increases in computing speed thanks to Moore’s law. That same line of thought now frequently points out that we are getting closer and closer to the physical limits of what Moore’s law can do for us. So the...
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Introducing sanitizers 0.1.0
A new package sanitizers is now on CRAN. It provides test cases for Address Sanitizers, and Undefined Behaviour Sanitizers. These are two recent features of both g++ and clang++, and described in the Checking Memory Access section of the Writing R Extension manual. I set up a new web page for the sanitizers package which illustrates their use c...
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BH release 1.54.0-3
A new release of our BH package providing Boost headers for use by R is now on the CRAN mirrors. This release is the third based on Boost 1.54.0. At the request of the maintainer of the recent added RcppMLPACK package, it adds the Boost.Heap library. Boost.Heap implements priority queues which extend beyond the corresponding (and somewhat s...
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