Publications by Thinking inside the box
Rblpapi 0.3.3
A new release of Rblpapi is now on CRAN. It provides a direct interface between R and the Bloomberg Terminal via the C++ API provided by Bloomberg Labs (but note that a valid Bloomberg license and installation is required). This marks the fourth release since the package first appeared on CRAN last year. Thanks to multiple contributors, it packs ...
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RcppArmadillo 0.6.600.4.0
Conrad announced a new Armadillo release 6.600.4 yesterday. This followed some work we had done for thorough pre-release checking with reverse dependencies tests for the over 200 CRAN packages using it and resulted in one more squashed bug. This releasehas been folded into RcppArmadillo 0.6.600.4.0 which arrived on CRAN and Debian earlier today. ...
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Rcpp 0.12.4: And another one
The fourth update in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp has now arrived on the CRAN network for GNU R, and has just been pushed to Debian as well. This follows four days of idleness in the incoming/ directory: Word is that the tireless CRAN maintainers were traveling and only covering simpler packages. The 0.12.4 release follows the 0.12.0 release from la...
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RcppAPT 0.0.2
A new version of RcppAPT — our interface from R to the C++ library behind the awesome apt, apt-get, apt-cache, … commands and their cache — is now on CRAN. It adds three new commands to the package. Two are relatively simple: showSrc() and dumpPackage() displays information about a given package, similar to what apt-cache showsrc and apt-ca...
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RcppArmadillo 0.6.700.3.0
A new Armadillo release 6.700.3 is out, and we uploaded RcppArmadillo 0.6.700.3.0 to CRAN and Debian. This followed the usual thorough reverse-dependecy checking of by now 216 packages using. 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 del...
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RcppCCTZ 0.0.4
A few days ago a new upstream version “2.0” of CCTZ was released. See here for the corresponding post on the Google OpenSource Blog. CCTZ is a C++ library for translating between absolute and civil times using the rules of a time zone. It requires only a proper C++11 compiler and the standard IANA time zone data base which standard Unix, Linu...
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RcppMgsPack 0.1.0
Over the last few months, I have been working casually on a new package to integrate MessagePack with R. What is MessagePack, you ask? To quote its website, “It’s like JSON, but fast and small.” Or in more extended terms: MessagePack is an efficient binary serialization format. It lets you exchange data among multiple languages like JSON. ...
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RcppRedis 0.1.7
A new release of RcppRedis arrived on CRAN today. And just like for the previous release, Russell Pierce contributed a lot of changes via several pull requests which make for more robust operations. In addition, we have started to add support for MessagePack by relying on our recently-announced RcppMsgPack package. Changes in version 0.1.7 (2016...
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RcppArmadillo 0.6.700.6.0
A second Armadillo release 6.700.6 came out in the 6.700 series, and we uploaded RcppArmadillo 0.6.700.6.0 to CRAN and Debian. This followed the usual thorough reverse-dependecy checking of by now 220 packages using. This release is a little unusual in that it contains both upstream bugfixes in the same series (see below) but also two nice bug fi...
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BH 1.60.0-2
A new minor release of BH is now on CRAN. BH provides a large part of the Boost C++ libraries as a set of template headers for use by R, possibly with Rcpp as well as other packages. This release uses the same Boost 1.60.0 version of Boost as the last release, but adds three more library: bimap, flyweight and icl. A brief summary of changes from ...
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