Publications by Thinking inside the box
RcppEigen 0.3.2.5.0
A new release of RcppEigen arrived on CRAN and in Debian yesterday. It synchronizes the Eigen code with the 3.2.5 upstream release. Once again, Yixuan Qiu did most of the heavy lifting in one very nice pull request, and I added some minor updates to keep R CMD check --as-cran happy. The NEWS file entry follows. Changes in RcppEigen version 0.3.2...
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RcppTOML 0.0.4
We introduced RcppTOML in April with the initial CRAN release 0.0.3. It permits R to read the (absolutely awesome) TOML format which is simply fabulous for configuration files. A new version appeared on CRAN yesterday. We had observed a somewhat rare segfault in our production use which came down me dereferencing a list iterator which checking le...
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RcppRedis 0.1.5
Another small update to RcppRedis arrived on CRAN this morning. The fix I made a few days ago addressing a unit test setup (for the rredis package loaded only for a comparison) didn’t quite work out. Changes in version 0.1.5 (2015-07-17) Another minor fix to unit test setup for rredis. Courtesy of CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report...
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Rcpp 0.12.0: Now with more Big Data!
A new release 0.12.0 of Rcpp arrived on the CRAN network for GNU R this morning, and I also pushed a Debian package upload. Rcpp has become the most popular way of enhancing GNU R with C++ code. As of today, 423 packages on CRAN depend on Rcpp for making analyses go faster and further. Note that this is 60 more packages since the last release in ...
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RcppZiggurat 0.1.3: Faster Random Normal Draws
After a slight hiatus since the last release in early 2014, we are delighted to announce a new release of RcppZiggurat which is now on the CRAN network for R. The RcppZiggurat package updates the code for the Ziggurat generator which provides very fast draws from a Normal distribution. The package provides a simple C++ wrapper class for the gener...
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Evading the “Hadley tax”: Faster Travis tests for R
Hadley is a popular figure, and rightly so as he successfully introduced many newcomers to the wonders offered by R. His approach strikes some of us old greybeards as wrong—I particularly take exception with some of his writing which frequently portrays a particular approach as both the best and only one. Real programming, I think, is often a l...
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RcppArmadillo 0.5.300.4.0
A new Armadillo release 5.300.4 was prepared by Conrad the other day, and we prepared a new corresponding RcppArmadillo release 0.5.300.4.0 which is now on CRAN and in way into Debian. 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 deliberate...
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drat 0.1.0: Even more repository support
A new version 0.1.0 of the drat package arrived on CRAN today. Its name stands for drat R Archive Template, and it helps with easy-to-create and easy-to-use repositories for R packages, and is finding increasing by other projects. This version 0.1.0 builds on the previous releases and now adds complete support for binaries for both Windows and OS...
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Rblpapi: Connecting R to Bloomberg
Whit, John and I are thrilled to announce Rblapi, a new CRAN package which connects R to the Bloomberg backends. Rebuilt from scratch using only the Bloomberg C++ API and the Rcpp and BH packages, it offers efficient and direct access from R to a truly vast number of financial data series, pricing tools and more. The package has been tested on Wi...
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RcppArmadillo 0.5.400.2.0
A new Armadillo release 5.400.2 was just released by Conrad. Consequently, a new RcppArmadillo release 0.5.400.2.0 went out to CRAN and into Debian. 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. This release c...
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