Publications by Thinking inside the box
BH 1.66.0-1
A new release of the BH package arrived on CRAN a little earlier: now at release 1.66.0-1. BH provides a sizeable portion of the Boost C++ libraries as a set of template headers for use by R, possibly with Rcpp as well as other packages. This release upgrades the version of Boost to the Boost 1.66.0 version released recently, and also adds one ex...
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#17: Dependencies.
Dependencies are invitations for other people to break your package. — Josh Ulrich, private communication Welcome to the seventeenth post in the relentlessly random R ravings series of posts, or R4 for short. Dependencies. A truly loaded topic. As R users, we are spoiled. Early in the history of R, Kurt Hornik and Friedrich Leisch built suppor...
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RcppArmadillo 0.8.400.0.0
RcppArmadillo release 0.8.400.0.0, originally prepared and uploaded on February 19, finally hit CRAN today (after having been available via the RcppCore drat repo for a number of days). A corresponding Debian release was prepared and uploaded as well. This RcppArmadillo release contains Armadillo release 8.400.0 with a number of nice changes (see...
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Rcpp 0.12.16: A small update
The sixteenth update the 0.12.* series of Rcpp landed on CRAN earlier this evening after a few days of gestation in incoming/ at CRAN. Once again, this release follows the 0.12.0 release from July 2016, the 0.12.1 release in September 2016, the 0.12.2 release in November 2016, the 0.12.3 release in January 2017, the 0.12.4 release in March 2016, ...
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RDieHarder 0.1.4
Per a CRAN email sent to 300+ maintainers, this package (just like many others) was asked to please register its S3 method. So we did, and also overhauled a few other packagaging standards which changed since the last upload in 2014. No NEWS.Rd file to take a summary from, but the top of the ChangeLog has details. Thanks to CRANberries, you can a...
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RcppClassicExamples 0.1.2
Per a CRAN email sent to 300+ maintainers, this package (just like many others) was asked to please register its S3 method. So we did, and also overhauled a few other packagaging standards which changed since the previous uploads in December of 2012 (!!). No new code or features. Full details below. And as a reminder, don’t use the old RcppClas...
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RcppSMC 0.2.1: A few new tricks
A new release, now at 0.2.1, of the RcppSMC package arrived on CRAN earlier this afternoon (and once again as a very quick pretest-publish within minutes of submission). RcppSMC provides Rcpp-based bindings to R for the Sequential Monte Carlo Template Classes (SMCTC) by Adam Johansen described in his JSS article. Sequential Monte Carlo is also re...
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RcppCNPy 0.2.9
Another minor maintenance release of the RcppCNPy package arrived on CRAN this evening. RcppCNPy provides R with read and write access to NumPy files thanks to the cnpy library by Carl Rogers. There is only small code change: a path is now checked before an attempt to save. Thanks to Wush for the suggestion. I also added a short new vignette show...
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tint 0.1.0
A new release of the tint package just arrived on CRAN. Its name expands from tint is not tufte as the package offers a fresher take on the Tufte-style for html and pdf presentations. This version adds support for the tufte-book latex style. The package now supported handouts in html or pdf format (as before) but also book-length material. I am u...
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#18: Adding Intel MKL easily via a simple script
Welcome to the eighteenth post in the rarely riveting R ramblings series of posts, or R4 for short. The Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL) is well-know high(er) performance math library tailored for Intel CPUs offering best-in-class numerical performance on a number of low-level operations (BLAS, LAPACK, …). They are not open source, used to be un...
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