Publications by Thinking inside the box
RcppArmadillo 0.7.500.0.0
A few days ago, Conrad released Armadillo 7.500.0. The corresponding RcppArmadillo release 0.7.500.0.0 is now on CRAN (and will get into Debian shortly). 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 deliberately close to a Matlab. RcppArmad...
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Rblpapi 0.3.5
A new release of Rblpapi is now on CRAN. Rblpapi 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 is the sixth release since the package first appeared on CRAN last year. This release brings new functionality via...
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drat 0.1.2: Mostly harmless
CRAN requested a release updating any URLs for Omegahat to the (actually working) omegahat.net URL. So that caused this 0.1.2 release which arrived on CRAN yesterday. It contains the requested change along with one or two other mostly minor changes which accumulated since the last release. drat stands for drat R Archive Template, and helps with e...
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RProtoBuf 0.4.7: Mostly harmless
CRAN requested a release updating any URLs for Omegahat to the (actually working) omegahat.net URL. The RProtoBuf package had this in one code comment (errr…) and on bibfile entry. Oh well — so that caused this 0.4.7 release which arrived on CRAN today. It contains the requested change, and pretty much nothing else. RProtoBuf provides R bindi...
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gettz 0.0.3
A minor release 0.0.3 of gettz arrived on CRAN two days ago. 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. This release adds a second #...
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anytime 0.1.0: New features, some fixes
A new release of anytime is now on CRAN following the four releases in September and October. 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. Release 0.1.0 adds several new features....
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pkgKitten 0.1.4: Creating R Packages that purr
A new minor release 0.1.4 of pkgKitten just hit on CRAN this morning. One small change is that the package manual page it creates now makes use of the (still new-ish and under-documented and under-used) Rd macros described at the end of Section 2.13 of Writing R Extensions: See the system.Rd file in share/Rd/macros for more details and macro def...
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Rcpp 0.12.8: And more goodies
Yesterday the eighth update in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp made it to the CRAN network for GNU R where the Windows binary has by now been generated too; the Debian package is on its way as well. This 0.12.8 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 Janua...
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BH 1.62.0-1
The BH package on CRAN was updated to version 1.62.0. 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 upgrades the version of Boost to the upstream version Boost 1.62.0, and adds three new libraries as shown in the brief summary of changes fr...
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RcppExamples 0.1.8
A new version of the RcppExamples package is now on CRAN. The RcppExamples package provides a handful of short examples detailing by concrete working examples how to set up basic R data structures in C++. This version takes advantage of the updated date and datetime classes in Rcpp 0.12.8 (which are optional for now and being phased in while we d...
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