Publications by Thinking inside the box
RcppGetconf 0.0.1
A new package RcppGetconf to read system configuration — not unlike getconf from the libc library. Now R can read what system calls sysconf, pathconf and confstr have to say. The package is still pretty green, and now on CRAN in a very first version, corresponding to a very first (and single !) commit. Right now, the CRAN just has one function ...
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RcppGetconf 0.0.2
A first update for the recent RcppGetconf package for reading system configuration — not unlike getconf from the libc library — is now out. Almost immediately after I tweeted / blogged asking for help with OS X builds, fellow Rcpp hacker Qiang Kou created a clever pull request allowing for exactly that. So now we cover two POSIX systems that ...
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digest 0.6.10
A new release, now at version number 0.6.10, of the digest package is now on CRAN. I also just prepared the Debian upload. This release, just like the previous one, is once again the work mostly of external contributors. Michel Lang added length checks to sha1(); Thierry Onkelinx extended sha1() support and added more tests, Viliam Simko also ext...
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RcppStreams 0.1.1
A maintenance release of RcppStreams is now on CRAN. RcppStreams brings the excellent Streamulus C++ template library for event stream processing to R. Streamulus, written by Irit Katriel, uses very clever template meta-programming (via Boost Fusion) to implement an embedded domain-specific event language created specifically for event stream pro...
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littler 0.3.1
The second release of littler as a CRAN package is now available, following in the now more than ten-year history as a package started by Jeff in the summer of 2006, and joined by me a few weeks later. littler is the first command-line interface for R and predates Rscript. It is still faster, and in my very biased eyes better as it allows for pip...
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drat 0.1.1: Updates schmupdates!
One year ago (tomorrow) drat 0.1.0 was released. It held up rather well, but a number of small fixes and enhancements piled up, along with somewhat-finished to still-raw additions to the examples/ sections. With that, we are happy to announce drat release 0.1.1 which arrived on CRAN earlier today. drat stands for drat R Archive Template, and help...
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rfoaas 1.0.0
The big 1.0.0 is here! Following the unsurpassed lead of the FOAAS project, we have arrived at a milestone: Release 1.0.0 is now on CRAN. The rfoaas package provides an interface for R to the most excellent FOAAS service–which itself provides a modern, scalable and RESTful web service for the frequent need to tell someone to f$#@ off. Release 1...
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RQuantLib 0.4.3: Lots of new Fixed Income functions
A release of RQuantLib is now on CRAN and in Debian. It contains a lot of new code contributed by Terry Leitch over a number of pull requests. See below for full details but the changes focus on Fixed Income and Fixed Income Derivatives, and cover swap, discount curves, swaptions and more. In the blog post for the previous release 0.4.2, we noted...
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RcppEigen 0.3.2.9.0
A new upstream release 3.2.9 of Eigen is now reflected in a new RcppEigen release 0.3.2.9.0 which got onto CRAN late yesterday and is now going into Debian. Once again, Yixuan Qiu did the heavy lifting of merging upstream (and two local twists we need to keep around). Another change is by James “coatless” Balamuta who added a row exporter. Th...
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RcppArmadillo 0.7.400.2.0
Another Armadillo 7.* release — now at 7.400. We skipped the 7.300.* serie release as it came too soon after our most recent CRAN release. Releasing RcppArmadillo 0.7.400.2.0 now keeps us at the (roughly monthly) cadence which works as a good compromise between getting updates out at Conrad‘s sometimes frantic pace, while keeping CRAN (and De...
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