Publications by Thinking inside the box
anytime 0.1.1: More robust
CRAN just accepted the newest release 0.1.1 of anytime, following the previous five releases since September. anytime is a very focussed package aiming to do just one thing really well: to convert anything in integer, numeric, character, factor, ordered, … format to POSIXct (or Date) objects — and to do so without requiring a format string. S...
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RcppAPT 0.0.3
A new version of RcppAPT — our interface from R to the C++ library behind the awesome apt, apt-get, apt-cache, … commands and their cache powering Debian, Ubuntu and the like — is now on CRAN. We changed the package to require C++11 compilation as newer Debian systems with g++-6 and the current libapt-pkg-dev library cannot build under the ...
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RcppCCTZ 0.1.0
A new version 0.1.0 of RcppCCTZ arrived on CRAN this morning. It brings a number of new or updated things, starting with new upstream code from CCTZ as well as a few new utility functions. CCTZ is a C++ library for translating between absolute and civil times using the rules of a time zone. In fact, it is two libraries. One for dealing with civil...
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anytime 0.1.2: Another bugfix
Another update, now at release 0.1.2, of anytime arrived at CRAN earlier today. anytime is a very focused package aiming to do just one thing really well: to convert anything in integer, numeric, character, factor, ordered, … format to either POSIXct or Date objects — and to do so without requiring a format string. See the anytime page, or th...
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nanotime 0.0.1: New package for Nanosecond Resolution Time for R
R has excellent tools for dates and times. The Date and POSIXct classes (as well as the ‘wide’ representation in POSIXlt) are versatile, and a lot of useful tooling has been built around them. However, POSIXct is implemented as a double with fractional seconds since the epoch. Given the 53 bits accuracy, it leaves just a bit less than microse...
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RcppArmadillo 0.7.600.1.0
Earlier this week, Conrad released Armadillo 7.600.1. The corresponding RcppArmadillo release 0.7.600.1.0 is now on CRAN and in Debian. This follows several of rounds testing at our end with a full reverse-dependency of a pre-release version followed by another full reverse-depency check. Which was of course followed by CRAN testing for two more ...
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anytime 0.2.0: Feature, fixes and tests!
A brand new anytime package just arrived at CRAN. This is release number eight, evenly spread with over two per month, since the initial release in September. Needless to say I have been told off not to make this many releases. As they say, no good deed goes unpunished. anytime is a very focused package aiming to do just one thing really well: to...
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digest 0.6.11
A new minor release with version number 0.6.11 of the digest package is now on CRAN and in Debian. It is mostly a maintenance release. Sometime last spring we were asked to consider changing the license GPL-2 to GPL (>= 2). Having gotten agreement of all copyright holders, this could finally happen. But it so happens that the last yay just after ...
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RcppTOML 0.1.0
Big news: RcppTOML now works on Windows too! This package had an uneventful 2016 without a single update. Release 0.0.5 had come out in late 2015 and we had no bugs or issues to fix. We use the package daily in production: a key part of our parameterisation is in TOML files In the summer, I took one brief stab at building on Windows now that R sp...
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RcppCCTZ 0.2.0
A new version, now at 0.2.0, of RcppCCTZ is now on CRAN. And it brings a significant change: windows builds! Thanks to Dan Dillon who dug deep enough into the libc++ sources from LLVM to port the std::get_time() function that is missing from the 4.* series of g++. And with Rtools being fixed at g++-4.9.3 this was missing for us here. Now we can p...
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