Publications by Thinking inside the box
RVowpalWabbit 0.0.10
A boring little RVowpalWabbit package update to version 0.0.10 came in response to another CRAN request: We were switching directories to run tests (or examples) which is now discouraged, so we no longer do this as it turns that we can of course refer to the files directly as well. Much cleaner. No new code or features were added. We should menti...
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#13: (Much) Faster Package (Re-)Installation via Binaries
Welcome to the thirteenth post in the ridiculously rapid R recommendation series, or R4 for short. A few days ago we riffed on faster installation thanks to ccache. Today we show another way to get equally drastic gains for some (if not most) packages. In a nutshell, there are two ways to get your R packages off CRAN. Either you install as a bina...
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digest 0.6.13
A small maintenance release, version 0.6.13, of the digest package arrived on CRAN and in Debian yesterday. digest creates hash digests of arbitrary R objects (using the ‘md5’, ‘sha-1’, ‘sha-256’, ‘crc32’, ‘xxhash’ and ‘murmurhash’ algorithms) permitting easy comparison of R language objects. This release accomodates a req...
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drat 0.1.4
A new version of drat just arrived on CRAN as another no-human-can-delay-this automatic upgrade directly from the CRAN prechecks (though I did need a manual reminder from Uwe to remove a now stale drat repo URL — bad @hrbrmstr — from the README in a first attempt). This release is mostly the work of Neal Fultz who kindly sent me two squeaky-c...
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littler 0.3.3
The fourth release of littler as a CRAN package is now available, following in the now more than ten-year history as a package started by Jeff in 2006, and joined by me a few weeks later. littler is the first command-line interface for R and predates Rscript. In my very biased eyes better as it allows for piping as well shebang scripting via #!, ...
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#14: Finding Binary .deb Files for CRAN Packages
Welcome to the fourteenth post in the rationally rambling R rants series, or R4 for short. The last two posts were concerned with faster installation. First, we showed how ccache can speed up (re-)installation. This was followed by a second post on faster installation via binaries. This last post immediately sparked some follow-up. Replying to my...
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RcppCNPy 0.2.8
A minor maintenance release of the RcppCNPy package arrived on CRAN this week. RcppCNPy provides R with read and write access to NumPy files thanks to the cnpy library by Carl Rogers. There is no code change here. But to process the vignette we rely on knitr which sees Python here and (as of its most recent release) wants the (excellent !!) retic...
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tint 0.0.5
A maintenance release of the tint package arrived on CRAN earlier this week. 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. Similar to the RcppCNPy release this week, this is pure maintenance related to dependencies. CRAN no...
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prrd 0.0.1: Parallel Running [of] Reverse Depends
A new package is now on the ghrr drat. It was uploaded four days ago to CRAN but still lingers in the inspect/ state, along with a growing number of other packages. But as some new packages have come through, I am sure it will get processed eventually but in the meantime I figured I may as well make it available this way. The idea of prrd is simp...
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digest 0.6.14
Another small maintenance release, version 0.6.14, of the digest package arrived on CRAN and in Debian today. digest creates hash digests of arbitrary R objects (using the ‘md5’, ‘sha-1’, ‘sha-256’, ‘crc32’, ‘xxhash’ and ‘murmurhash’ algorithms) permitting easy comparison of R language objects. Just like release 0.6.13 a f...
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