Publications by Thinking inside the box
RcppCNPy 0.2.5
A maintenance release of the RcppCNPy package is now on CRAN. RcppCNPy provides R with read and write access to NumPy files thanks to the cnpy library by Carl Rogers. This release just updates a few package internals such as the vignette, the DESCRIPTION and the README.md file as well as under Travis script used for continuous integration. Chang...
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rfoaas 1.1.0
FOAAS upstream came out with release 1.1.0 earlier last week. Tyler Hunt was kind enough to provide an almost immediate pull request adding support for the extended capabilties. Following yesterday’s upload we now have version 1.1.0 of rfoaas on CRAN. It brings six more accessors: maybe(), blackadder(), horse(), deraadt(), problem(), cocksplat(...
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RProtoBuf 0.4.5: now with protobuf v2 and v3!
A few short weeks after the 0.4.4 release of RProtoBuf, we are happy to announce a new version 0.4.5 which appeared on CRAN earlier today. 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 p...
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Rcpp 0.12.7: More updates
The seventh update in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp just arrived on the CRAN network for GNU R as well as in Debian. This 0.12.7 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, the 0.12.5 release in May, and the 0.12.6 relea...
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RProtoBuf 0.4.6: bugfix update
Relatively quickly after version 0.4.5 of RProtoBuf was released, we have a new version 0.4.6 to announce which appeared on CRAN today. RProtoBuf provides R bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers (“Protobuf”) data encoding and serialization library used and released by Google, and deployed as a language and operating-system agnostic protoco...
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New package gettz on CRAN
gettz is now on CRAN in its initial release 0.0.1. It provides a possible fallback in situations where Sys.timezone() fails to determine the system timezone. That can happen when e.g. the file /etc/localtime somehow is not a link into the corresponding file with zoneinfo data in, say, /usr/share/zoneinfo. Duane McCully provided a nice StackOverfl...
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anytime 0.0.1: New package for ‘anything’ to POSIXct (or Date)
anytime just arrived on CRAN as a very first release 0.0.1. So why (yet another) package dealing with dates and times? R excels at computing with dates, and times. By using typed representation we not only get all that functionality but also of the added safety stemming from proper representation. But there is a small nuisance cost: How often hav...
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anytime 0.0.2: Added functionality
anytime arrived on CRAN via release 0.0.1 a good two days ago. anytime aims to convert anything in integer, numeric, character, factor, ordered, … format to POSIXct (or Date) objects. This new release 0.0.2 adds two new functions to gather conversion formats — and set new ones. It also fixed a minor build bug, and robustifies a conversion whi...
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tint 0.0.1: Tint Is Not Tufte
A new experimental package is now on the ghrr drat. It is named tint which stands for Tint Is Not Tufte. It provides an alternative for Tufte-style html presentation. I wrote a bit more on the package page and the README in the repo — so go read this. Here is just a little teaser of what it looks like: and the full underlying document is avail...
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RcppCNPy 0.2.6
A new version of the RcppCNPy package arrived on CRAN a few days ago. RcppCNPy provides R with read and write access to NumPy files thanks to the cnpy library by Carl Rogers. This new release reflects all the suggestions and comments I received during the review process for the Journal of Open Source Software submission. I am happy to say that ab...
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