Publications by Thinking inside the box
Rblpapi 0.3.6
Time for a new release of Rblpapi — version 0.3.6 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 seventh release since the package first appeared on CRAN last year. This release...
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RcppTOML 0.1.3
A new bug fix release of RcppTOML arrived on CRAN today. Table arrays were (wrongly) not allowing for nesting; a simply recursion fix addresses this. RcppTOML brings TOML to R. TOML is a file format that is most suitable for configurations, as it is meant to be edited by humans but read by computers. It emphasizes strong readability for humans wh...
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#6: Easiest package registration
Welcome to the sixth post in the really random R riffs series, or R4 for short. Posts #1 and #2 discussed how to get the now de rigeur package registration information computed. In essence, we pointed to something which R 3.4.0 would have, and provided tricks for accessing it while R 3.3.3 was still R-released. But now R 3.4.0 is out, and life is...
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RcppEigen 0.3.3.3.0
A new RcppEigen release 0.3.3.3.0 was put into CRAN (and Debian) a few days ago. It brings Eigen 3.3.* to R. Once again, Yixuan Qiu did most of the heavy lifting over a multi-month period as some adjustments needed to be made in the package itself, along with coordination downstream. The complete NEWS file entry follows. Changes in RcppEigen vers...
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x13binary 1.1.39-1
The US Census Bureau released a new build 1.1.39 of their X-13ARIMA-SEATS program, released as binary and source. So Christoph and went to work and updated our x13binary package on CRAN. The x13binary package takes the pain out of installing X-13ARIMA-SEATS by making it a fully resolved CRAN dependency. For example, if you install the excellent s...
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RInside 0.2.14
A new release 0.2.14 of RInside is now on CRAN and in Debian. RInside provides a set of convenience classes which facilitate embedding of R inside of C++ applications and programs, using the classes and functions provided by Rcpp. It has been nearly two years since the last release, and a number of nice extensions, build robustifications and fixe...
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Upcoming Rcpp Talks
Very excited about the next few weeks which will cover a number of R conferences, workshops or classes with talks, mostly around Rcpp and one notable exception: May 19: Rcpp: From Simple Examples to Machine learning, pre-conference workshop at our R/Finance 2017 conference here in Chicago May 26: Extending R with C++: Motivation and Examples, in...
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Rcpp 0.12.11: Loads of goodies
The elevent update in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp landed on CRAN yesterday following the initial upload on the weekend, and the Debian package and Windows binaries should follow as usual. The 0.12.11 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...
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RcppArmadillo 0.7.900.2.0
The new RcppArmadillo release 0.7.900.2.0 is now on CRAN, and the Debian package was just updated as well. 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. RcppArmadillo integrates this library with the R environ...
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anytime 0.3.0
A new version of the anytime package is now on CRAN. It marks the eleventh release since the inaugural version late last summer. 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 requi...
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