Publications by Thinking inside the box
RcppDE 0.1.3
A pure maintenance release 0.1.3 of the RcppDE package arrived on CRAN yesterday. RcppDE is a “port” of DEoptim, a popular package for derivative-free optimisation using differential optimization, to C++. By using RcppArmadillo, the code becomes a lot shorter and more legible. This version simply fixes a typo in the vignette metadata noticed ...
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RProtoBuf 0.4.3
A new maintenance release 0.4.3 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. This release comes upon the request of CRAN and adds additional impor...
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RcppGSL 0.3.0
A new version of RcppGSL just arrived on CRAN. The RcppGSL package provides an interface from R to the GNU GSL using our Rcpp package. Following on the heels of an update last month we updated the package (and its vignette) further. One of the key additions concern memory management: Given that our proxy classes around the GSL vector and matrix t...
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RcppArmadillo 0.5.500.2.0
Once again time for the monthly upstream Armadillo update — version 5.500.2 was released earlier today by Conrad. And a new and matching RcppArmadillo release 0.5.500.2.0 in already on CRAN and will go to Debian shortly. Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra aiming towards a good balance between speed an...
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RcppDE 0.1.4
A second maintenance release 0.1.4 of our RcppDE package, following on the heels of the recent 0.1.3. release arrived on CRAN today. RcppDE is a “port” of DEoptim, a popular package for derivative-free optimisation using differential optimization, to C++. By using RcppArmadillo, the code becomes a lot shorter and more legible. This version ch...
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It was twenty years ago today…
Hm, wasn’t there a catchy tune that started that way? Just kidding. But about twenty years ago today I sent this email about a new Debian package upload — and that makes it (as best as I can tell) the earliest trace of me doing Debian work. It so happened that I did upload two packages in July of 1995 as well, but it was so early in the proje...
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It was twenty years ago today…
Hm, wasn’t there a catchy tune that started that way? Just kidding. But about twenty years ago today I sent this email about a new Debian package upload — and that makes it (as best as I can tell) the earliest trace of me doing Debian work. It so happened that I did upload two packages in July of 1995 as well, but it was so early in the proje...
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Rcpp 0.12.1: First boat load of fixes!
The first updated in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp is now on the CRAN network for GNU R this morning, and I will push a Debian package. This follows the 0.12.0 release from late July which started to some serious new features. Rcpp has become the most popular way of enhancing GNU R with C++ code. As of today, 461 packages on CRAN depend on Rcpp for m...
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RQuantLib 0.4.1
Right before heading off to last week’s excellent EARL 2015 conference in London, a new minor release of RQuantLib was released onto CRAN and into Debian. The changes are detailed below. Changes in RQuantLib version 0.4.1 (2015-09-11) Changes in RQuantLib code: A simple shiny application is now included in the directory shiny/DiscountCurve/ ...
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RcppArmadillo 0.5.600.2.0
And yet another upstream Armadillo update — version 5.600.2 was released yesterday by Conrad. So I pushed a new and matching RcppArmadillo release 0.5.600.2.0 to CRAN and to 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 deliberatel...
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