Publications by Thinking inside the box
RcppEigen 0.3.2.5.1
A bugfix release of RcppEigen is now on CRAN and in Debian. The NEWS file entry follows. Changes in RcppEigen version 0.3.2.5.1 (2015-09-23) Corrected use of kitten() thanks to Grant Brown (#21) Applied upstream change to protect against undefined behaviour with null pointers Courtesy of CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report for the mo...
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RcppArmadillo 0.6.100.0.0
The somewhat regular monthly upstream Armadillo update brings us a first release of the 6.* series. This follows an earlier test release announced on the list, and released to the Rcpp drat. And as version 6.100.0 was released on Friday by Conrad, we rolled it into RcppArmadillo release 0.6.100.0.0 yesterday. Following yet another full test again...
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RcppRedis 0.1.6
An incremental RcppRedis release arrived on CRAN yesterday. Russell Pierce contributed four new function for pushing and popping to/from lists, and added authentication support. I added a simple ping command as well. Changes in version 0.1.6 (2015-10-05) Added support (including new unit tests) for lpop, rpop, lpush, rpush as well as auth via a...
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Seinfeld streak at GitHub: Round Two
So one year ago, I posted a reference to the Seinfeld Streak as used in an even earlier post of regular updates to to the Rcpp Gallery: This is sometimes called Jerry Seinfeld’s secret to productivity: Just keep at it. Don’t break the streak. Now it is one year later and it seems I just doubled up with a second year of GitHub streaking May...
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Seinfeld streak at GitHub: Round Two
So one year ago, I posted a reference to the Seinfeld Streak as used in an even earlier post of regular updates to to the Rcpp Gallery: This is sometimes called Jerry Seinfeld’s secret to productivity: Just keep at it. Don’t break the streak. Now it is one year later and it seems I just doubled up with a second year of GitHub streaking May...
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R / Finance 2016 Call for Papers
Earlier today, Josh sent the text below in this message to the R-SIG-Finance list as the very first heads-up concerning the 2016 edition of our successful R/Finance series. We are once again very excited about our conference, thrilled about upcoming keynotes (some of which are confirmed and some of which are in the works), and hope that many R / ...
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R / Finance 2016 Call for Papers
Earlier today, Josh sent the text below in this message to the R-SIG-Finance list as the very first heads-up concerning the 2016 edition of our successful R/Finance series. We are once again very excited about our conference, thrilled about upcoming keynotes (some of which are confirmed and some of which are in the works), and hope that many R / ...
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Rblpapi 0.3.1
The first update to the Rblpapi package since the initial CRAN upload in August is now available. Rblpapi connects R to the Bloomberg system, giving access to a truly vast array of time series data and custom calculations. This release brings a new beqs() functions to access the results from Bloomberg EQS queries, improves the build system a corr...
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rfoaas 0.1.8
A new release rfoaas is now on CRAN following up on the recent upstream release 0.1.8 of FOAAS. 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 f$#@ off. Release 0.1.8 brings over a handfull new access points rel...
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Rcpp now used by over 500 CRAN packages
This morning, Rcpp reached another round milestone: 501 packages on CRAN now depend on it (as measured by Depends, Imports and LinkingTo declarations, and even excluding one or two packages with an accidental declaration that do not use it). The graph is on the left depicts the growth of Rcpp usage over time. And there are a full seventy more on ...
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