Publications by Thinking inside the box
Rblpapi 0.3.4
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 fifth release since the package first appeared on CRAN last year. Continued thanks to all contributors for co...
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Rcpp 0.12.5: Yet another one
The fifth update in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp has arrived on the CRAN network for GNU R a few hours ago, and was just pushed to Debian. This 0.12.5 release follows the 0.12.0 release from late July, the 0.12.1 release in September, the 0.12.2 release in November, the 0.12.3 release in January, and the 0.12.4 release in March — making it the nin...
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rfoaas 0.1.9
Time for new release! We just updated rfoaas on CRAN, and it now corresponds to version 0.1.9 of the FOAAS API. 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 0.1.9 brings three new access poin...
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RcppArmadillo 0.7.100.3.0
The first Armadillo release of the 7.* series is out: a new version 7.100.3. We uploaded RcppArmadillo 0.7.100.3.0 to CRAN and Debian. This followed the usual thorough reverse-dependecy checking of by now 230 packages using it. This release now requires a recent enough compiler. As g++ is so common, we explicitly test for version 4.6 or newer. So...
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RMarkdown and Metropolis/Mtheme
Nick Tierney asked on Twitter about rmarkdown and metropolis about whether folks had used RMarkdown-driven LaTeX Beamer presentations. And the answer is a firm hell yeah. I have been using mtheme (and/or a local variant I called ‘m2’) as well as the newer (renamed) release mtheme for the last year or two for all my RMarkdown-based presentatio...
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Rcpp now used by over 700 CRAN packages
Earlier this morning, Rcpp reached another milestone: 701 packages on CRAN now depend on it (as measured by Depends, Imports and LinkingTo declarations). The graph is on the left depicts the growth of Rcpp usage over time. Rcpp cleared 300 packages in November 2014. It passed 400 packages in June of last year (when I only tweeted about it), 500 p...
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RProtoBuf 0.4.4, and new JSS paper
A new release 0.4.4 of RProtoBuf is now on CRAN, and corresponds to the source archive for the Journal of Statistical Software paper about RProtoBuf as JSS vol71 issue 02. The paper is also included as a pre-print in the updated package. RProtoBuf provides R bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers (“Protobuf”) data encoding library used and ...
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Rcpp 0.12.6: Rolling on
The sixth update in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp has arrived on the CRAN network for GNU R a few hours ago, and was just pushed to Debian. This 0.12.6 release follows the 0.12.0 release from late July, the 0.12.1 release in September, the 0.12.2 release in November, the 0.12.3 release in January, the 0.12.4 release in March, and the 0.12.5 release i...
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RcppCCTZ 0.0.5
Version 0.0.5 of RcppCCTZ arrived on CRAN a couple of days ago. It reflects an upstream fixed made a few weeks ago. CRAN tests revealed that g++-6 was tripping over one missing #define; this was added upstream and I subsequently synchronized with upstream. At the same time the set of examples was extended (see below). Somehow useR! 2016 got in th...
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RcppArmadillo 0.7.200.2.0
The second Armadillo release of the 7.* series came out a few weeks ago: version 7.200.2. And RcppArmadillo version 0.7.200.2.0 is now on CRAN and uploaded to Debian. This followed the usual thorough reverse-dependecy checking of by now over 240 packages using it. For once, I let it simmer a little preparing only a package update via the GitHub r...
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