Publications by Thinking inside the box

Rcpp 0.12.13: Updated vignettes, and more

28.09.2017

The thirteenth release in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp landed on CRAN this morning, following a little delay because Uwe Ligges was traveling and whatnot. We had announced its availability to the mailing list late last week. As usual, a rather substantial amount of testing effort went into this release so you should not expect any surprise. This rel...

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RProtoBuf 0.4.11

03.10.2017

RProtoBuf provides R bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers (“ProtoBuf”) data encoding and serialization library used and released by Google, and deployed fairly widely in numerous projects as a language and operating-system agnostic protocol. A new releases RProtoBuf 0.4.11 appeared on CRAN earlier today. Not unlike the other recent releas...

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RcppArmadillo 0.8.100.1.0

11.10.2017

We are thrilled to announce a new big RcppArmadillo release! Conrad recently moved Armadillo to the 8.* series, with significant improvements and speed ups for sparse matrix operations, and more. See below for a brief summary. This also required some changes at our end which Binxiang Ni provided, and Serguei Sokol improved some instantiations. We...

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GitHub Streak: Round Four

12.10.2017

Three years ago I referenced the Seinfeld Streak used in an 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 first chart of GitHub streaking And two year ago a first follow-up appeared in this post: And a year a...

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linl 0.0.1: linl is not Letter

22.10.2017

Aaron Wolen and I are pleased to announce the availability of the initial 0.0.1 release of our new linl package on the CRAN network. It provides a simple-yet-powerful Markdown—and RMarkdown—wrapper the venerable LaTeX letter class. Aaron had done the legwork in the underlying pandoc-letter repository upon which we build via proper rmarkdown i...

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pinp 0.0.3: More docs, more features

30.10.2017

Our pinp package for snazzier one or two column vignette received it second update. Now at version 0.0.3, it arrived on CRAN on Saturday with minimal fuzz as an ‘CRAN-pretest-publish’ transition. We added more frontmatter options, documented more, and streamlined some internals of the LaTeX class borrowed from PNAS. A screenshot of the (updat...

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linl 0.0.2: Couple improvements

31.10.2017

Following up on the initial 0.0.1 release of linl, Aaron and I are happy to announce release 0.0.2 which reached the CRAN network on Sunday in a smooth ‘CRAN-pretest-publish’ auto-admittance. linl provides a simple-yet-powerful Markdown—and RMarkdown—wrapper around the venerable LaTeX letter class; see below for an expanded example also i...

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tint 0.0.4: Small enhancements

03.11.2017

A maintenance release of the tint package arrived on CRAN earlier today. Its name expands from tint is not tufte as the package offers a fresher take on the Tufte-style for html and pdf presentations. A screenshot of the pdf variant is below. This release brings some minor enhancements and polish, mostly learned from having done the related pinp...

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pinp 0.0.4: Small tweak

05.11.2017

A maintenance release of our pinp package for snazzier one or two column vignettes is now on CRAN as of yesterday. In version 0.0.3, we disabled the default \pnasbreak command we inherit from the PNAS LaTeX style. That change turns out to have been too drastic. So we reverted yet added a new YAML front-matter option skip_final_break which, if set...

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RcppQuantuccia 0.0.2

06.11.2017

A first maintenance release of RcppQuantuccia got to CRAN earlier today. RcppQuantuccia brings the Quantuccia header-only subset / variant of QuantLib to R. At present it mostly offers calendaring, but Quantuccia just got a decent amount of new functions so hopefully we can offer more here too. This release was motivated by the upcoming Rcpp rele...

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