Publications by Thinking inside the box
rfoaas 0.1.3
A brand new version of rfoaas is now on CRAN. It shadows the 0.1.3 release of FOAAS just how an earlier 0.1.2 had done (but there was something not quite right at the server backend which we coded around with an interim release 0.1.2.1; neither one of these was ever released to CRAN). The rfoaas package provides an interface for R to the most exc...
1469 sym
RPushbullet 0.2.0
A new releases of the RPushbullet package (interfacing the neat Pushbullet service) arrived on CRAN today. It brings several weeks of extensions, corrections and cleanups—with key contributions by Mike Birdgeneau and Henrik Bengtsson. RPushbullet now has support for channels (a reasonably new feature upstream). Setup, initialization and tests a...
1711 sym
RcppAPT 0.0.1
Over the last few days I put together a new package RcppAPT which interfaces the C++ library behind the awesome apt, apt-get, apt-cache, … commands and their GUI-based brethren. The package currently implements two functions which permit search for package information via a regular expression, as well as a (vectorised) package name-based check....
1343 sym R (442 sym/3 pcs)
drat Tutorial: Publishing a package
Introduction The drat package was released earlier this month, and described in a first blog post. I received some helpful feedback about what works and what doesn’t. For example, Jenny Bryan pointed out that I was not making a clear enough distinction between the role of using drat to publish code, and using drat to receive/install code. Very ...
5157 sym R (751 sym/2 pcs)
RcppArmadillo 0.4.650.1.1 (and also 0.4.650.2.0)
A new Armadillo release 4.650.1 was released by Conrad a few days ago. Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra aiming towards a good balance between speed and ease of use with a syntax deliberately close to a Matlab. It turned out that this release had one shortcoming with respect to the C++11 RNG initializa...
2890 sym R (107 sym/1 pcs)
RcppEigen 0.3.2.4.0
A new release of RcppEigen is now on CRAN and in Debian. It synchronizes the Eigen code with the 3.2.4 upstream release, and updates the RcppEigen.package.skeleton() package creation helper to use the kitten() function from pkgKitten for enhanced package creation. The NEWS file entry follows. Changes in RcppEigen version 0.3.2.4.0 (2015-02-23) ...
1110 sym
drat 0.0.2: Improved Support for Lightweight R Repositories
A few weeks ago we introduced the drat package. Its name stands for drat R Archive Template, and it helps with easy-to-create and easy-to-use repositories for R packages. Two early blog posts describe drat: First Steps Towards Lightweight Repositories, and Publishing a Package. A new version 0.0.2 is now on CRAN. It adds several new features: be...
1302 sym
Rcpp 0.11.5
The new release 0.11.5 of Rcpp just reached the CRAN network for GNU R, and a Debian package has also been be uploaded. Rcpp has become the most popular way of enhancing GNU R with C++ code. As of today, 345 packages on CRAN depend on Rcpp for making analyses go faster and further; BioConductor adds another 41 packages, and casual searches on Git...
4078 sym
Why Drat? A Guest Post by Steven Pav
Editorial Note: The following post was kindly contributed by Steven Pav. Why Drat? After playing around with drat for a few days now, my impressions of it are best captured by Dirk’s quote: It just works. Demo To get some idea of what I mean by this, suppose you are a happy consumer of R packages, but want access to, say, the latest, greates...
3933 sym R (75 sym/3 pcs)
littler 0.2.3
A new minor release of littler is available now. It adds or extends a number of things: added support for drat by adding a new example installDrat.r; the install.r, install2.r and check.r scripts now use getOption("repos") to set the default repos; this works well with drat and multiple repos set via, e.g. ~/.littler.r or /etc/littler.r; added s...
1979 sym 2 img