Publications by Thinking inside the box
digest 0.6.6 (and 0.6.5)
A new release 0.6.6 of the digest package is now on CRAN and in Debian. This release brings the xxHash non-cryptographic hash function by Yann Collet, thanks to several pull requests by Jim Hester. After the upload of version 0.6.5 we uncovered another lovely non-standardness of Windoze: you cannot format unsigned long long via printf() format st...
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RProtoBuf 0.4.2
A new release 0.4.2 of RProtoBuf is now on CRAN. RProtoBuf provides 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 and Jeroen did almost all of the heavy lifting. Many changes were triggere...
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rfoaas 0.0.4.20141212
A new version of rfoaas is now on CRAN. The rfoaas package provides an interface for R to the most excellent FOAAS service — which provides a modern, scalable and RESTful web service for the frequent need to tell someone to eff off. The FOAAS backend gets updated in spurts, and yesterday a few pull requests were integrated, including one from y...
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Rocker is now the official R image for Docker
Something happened a little while ago which we did not have time to commensurate properly. Our Rocker image for R is now the official R image for Docker itself. So getting R (via Docker) is now as simple as saying docker pull r-base. This particular container is essentially just the standard r-base Debian package for R (which is one of a few I ma...
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digest 0.6.7
Release 0.6.7 of digest package is now on CRAN and in Debian. Jim Hester was at it again and added murmurHash. I cleaned up several sets of pedantic warnings in some of the source files, updated the test reference out, and that forms version 0.6.7. CRANberries provides the usual summary of changes to the previous version. This post by Dirk Eddel...
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If only there was a Romeo somewhere …
Attention: rant coming. You have been warned, and may want to tune out now. So the top of my Twitter timeline just had a re-tweet posting to this marvel on the state of Julia. I should have known better than to glance at it as it comes from someone providing (as per the side-bar) Thought leadership in Big Data, systems architecture and more. Read...
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BH release 1.55.0-1
A new release of BH, our package providing (a large part of the) Boost C++ libraries as a set of template headers for use by R, is now on CRAN. There are two changes. First, we upgraded to Boost 1.55. While Boost 1.57 is now current, I am playing it somewhat safe and conservative here by relying on what is the current version in Debian (and Ubunt...
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RcppEigen 0.3.2.3.0
A new release of RcppEigen is now on CRAN, and will get to Debian shortly. This is thanks to a fabulous pull request by Yixuan Qiu who single-handedly managed to upgrade to the new minor release of Eigen — after having expanded the unit tests a few weeks earlier in another pull request. The NEWS file entry follows. Changes in RcppEigen version...
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rfoaas 0.0.4.20141224
A new version of rfoaas is now on CRAN. The rfoaas package provides an interface for R to the most excellent FOAAS service — which provides a modern, scalable and RESTful web service for the frequent need to tell someone to eff off. This is minor update, affecting only the rfoaas side without changes at the FOAAS backend side. We documented tha...
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rfoaas 0.0.4.20141225 — not on CRAN
A new version of rfoaas was prepared for CRAN, but refused on the grounds of having been updated within 24 hours. Oh well. To recap, the rfoaas package provides an interface for R to the most excellent FOAAS service — which provides a modern, scalable and RESTful web service for the frequent need to tell someone to eff off. And having seen the ...
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