Publications by Thinking inside the box
RQuantLib 0.4.4: Several smaller updates
A shiny new (mostly-but-not-completely maintenance) release of RQuantLib, now at version 0.4.4, arrived on CRAN overnight, and will get to Debian shortly. This is the first release in over a year, and it it contains (mostly) a small number of fixes throughout. It also includes the update to the new DateVector and DatetimeVector classes which beco...
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R / Finance 2018 Call for Papers
The tenth (!!) annual annual R/Finance conference will take in Chicago on the UIC campus on June 1 and 2, 2018. Please see the call for papers below (or at the website) and consider submitting a paper. We are once again very excited about our conference, thrilled about who we hope may agree to be our anniversary keynotes, and hope that many R / F...
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RcppClassic 0.9.9
A maintenance release RcppClassic 0.9.9 is now at CRAN. This package provides a maintained version of the otherwise deprecated first Rcpp API; no new projects should use it. Per a request from CRAN, we changed the call to Rcpp::Rcpp.plugin.maker() to only use :: as the function has in fact been exported and accessible for a pretty long time. So n...
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RcppEigen 0.3.3.3.1
A maintenance release 0.3.3.3.1 of RcppEigen is now on CRAN (and will get to Debian soon). It brings Eigen 3.3.* to R. The impetus was a request from CRAN to change the call to Rcpp::Rcpp.plugin.maker() to only use :: as the function has in fact been exported and accessible for a pretty long time. So now the usage pattern catches up. Otherwise, H...
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Rcpp 0.12.14: Some deprecation and minor updates
The fourteenth release in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp landed on CRAN yesterday after a somewhat longer-than-usual gestation period (and word is it may have been due to some unrelated disturbances from lots of changes within the main r-devel build). This release follows the 0.12.0 release from July 2016, the 0.12.1 release in September 2016, the 0.1...
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rfoaas 1.1.1: Updated and extended
FOAAS upstream is still at release 1.1.0, but added a few new accessors a couple of months ago. So this new version of rfoaas updates to these: asshole(), cup(), fyyff(), immensity(), programmer(), rtfm(), thinking(). We also added test coverage and in doing so noticed that our actual tests never ran on Travis. Yay. Now fixed. As usual, CRANberri...
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#11: (Much) Faster Package (Re-)Installation via Caching
Welcome to the eleventh post in the rarely rued R rants series, or R4 for short. Time clearly flies as it has been three months since out last post on significantly reducing library size via stripping. I had been meaning to post on today’s topic for quite some time, but somehow something (working on a paper, releasing a package, …) got in the...
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Rcpp now used by 1250 CRAN packages
Earlier today Rcpp passed 1250 reverse-dependencies on CRAN as another big milestone. The graph is on the left depicts the growth of Rcpp usage (as measured by Depends, Imports and LinkingTo, but excluding Suggests) over time. Rcpp cleared 300 packages in November 2014. It passed 400 packages in June 2015 (when I only tweeted about it), 500 packa...
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RcppArmadillo 0.8.300.1.0
Another RcppArmadillo release hit CRAN today. Since our last 0.8.100.1.0 release in October, Conrad kept busy and produced Armadillo releases 8.200.0, 8.200.1, 8.300.0 and now 8.300.1. We tend to now package these (with proper reverse-dependency checks and all) first for the RcppCore drat repo from where you can install them “as usual” (see t...
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#12: Know and Customize your OS and Work Environment
Welcome to the twelveth post in the randomly relevant R recommendations series, or R4 for short. This post will insert a short diversion into what was planned as a sequence of posts on faster installations that started recently with this post but we will resume to it very shortly (for various definitions of “very” or “shortly”). Earlier t...
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