Publications by Thinking inside the box
gcbd 0.2.6
A pure maintenance release 0.2.6 of the gcbd package is now on CRAN. The gcbd proposes a benchmarking framework for LAPACK and BLAS operations (as the library can exchanged in a plug-and-play sense on suitable OSs) and records result in local database. Recent / upcoming changes to DBMI and RSQLite let me to update the package; there are no actual...
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RcppAnnoy 0.0.8
An new version 0.0.8 of RcppAnnoy, our Rcpp-based R integration of the nifty Annoy library by Erik, is now on CRAN. Annoy is a small, fast, and lightweight C++ template header library for approximate nearest neighbours. This release pulls in a few suggested changes which had piled up since the last release. Changes in this version are summarized ...
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RcppGSL 0.3.1
A new version of RcppGSL in now on CRAN and in Debian. The RcppGSL package provides an interface from R to the GNU GSL using our Rcpp package. This release is one that entirely focused on maintenance. CRAN asked us to change on aspect relative to vignettes, and we added a few more small updates related entirely to packaging. In other words, no us...
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tint 0.0.2: Tint Is Not Tufte
The tint package is now on CRAN. Its name stands for Tint Is Not Tufte and it offers a fresh take on the excellent Tufte-style html (and now also pdf) presentations. As a little teaser, here is what the html variant looks like: and the full underlying document is available too. For questions or comments use the issue tracker off the GitHub repo....
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Seinfeld streak at GitHub: Round Three
Two years ago in this post I reference the Seinfeld Streak 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. and showed the this first chart of GitHub streaking Last year a follow-up appeared in this post: And a...
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anytime 0.0.3: Extension and fixes
anytime arrived on CRAN with releases 0.0.1 and 0.0.2 about a month ago. anytime aims to convert anything in integer, numeric, character, factor, ordered, … format to POSIXct (or Date) objects. Release 0.0.3 brings a bugfix for Windows (where for dates before the epoch of 1970-01-01, accessing the tm_isdst field for daylight savings would crash...
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tint 0.0.3: Tint Is Not Tufte
The tint package, whose name stands for Tint Is Not Tufte , on CRAN offers a fresh take on the excellent Tufte-style for html and pdf presentations. It marks a milestone for me: I finally have a repository with more “stars” than commits. Gotta keep an eye on the big prize… Kidding aside, and as a little teaser, here is what the pdf variant ...
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Rcpp now used by 800 CRAN packages
A moment ago, Rcpp hit another milestone: 800 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. The easiest way to compute this is to use the reverse_dependencies_with_maintainers() function from a helper scripts file on CRAN. This s...
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gettz 0.0.2
Release 0.0.2 of gettz is now on CRAN. gettz 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. Windows is now no longer excluded, though it doesn...
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anytime 0.0.4: New features and fixes
A brand-new release of anytime is now on CRAN following the three earlier releases since mid-September. anytime aims to convert anything in integer, numeric, character, factor, ordered, … format to POSIXct (or Date) objects — and does so without requiring a format string. See the anytime page for a few examples. With release 0.0.4, we add two...
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