Publications by Thinking inside the box
RcppArmadillo 0.9.200.4.0
A new RcppArmadillo release, now at 0.9.200.4.0, based on the new Armadillo release 9.200.4 from earlier this week, is now on CRAN, and should get to Debian very soon. 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 Mat...
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anytime 0.3.3
A new minor clean-up release of the anytime package arrived on CRAN overnight. This is the fourteenth release, and follows the 0.3.2 release a good week ago. 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 �...
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Rcpp now used by 1500 CRAN packages
Right now Rcpp stands at 1500 reverse-dependencies on CRAN. The graph is on the left depicts the growth of Rcpp usage (as measured by Depends, Imports and LinkingTo, but excluding Suggests) over time. What an amazing few days this has been as we also just marked the tenth anniversary and the big one dot oh release. Rcpp cleared 300 packages in No...
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RcppGetconf 0.0.3
A second and minor update for the RcppGetconf package for reading system configuration — not unlike getconf from the libc library — is now on CRAN. Changes are minor. We avoid an error on a long-dead operating system cherished in one particular corner of the CRAN world. In doing so some files were updated so that dynamically loaded routines a...
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RcppMsgPack 0.2.3
Another maintenance release of RcppMsgPack got onto CRAN today. Two new helper functions were added and not unlike the previous 0.2.2 release in, some additional changes are internal and should allow compilation on all CRAN systems. MessagePack itself is an efficient binary serialization format. It lets you exchange data among multiple languages ...
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RcppEigen 0.3.3.5.0
Another minor release 0.3.3.5.0 of RcppEigen arrived on CRAN today (and just went to Debian too) bringing support for Eigen 3.3.5 to R. As we now carry our small set of patches to Eigen as diff in our repo, it was fairly straightforward to bring these few changes to the new upstream version. I added one trivial fix of changing a return value to v...
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RQuantLib 0.4.6: Updated upstream, and calls for help
The new 0.4.6 release of RQuantLib arrived on CRAN and Debian earlier today. It is two-fold update: catching up QuantLib 1.14 while also updating to Boost 1.67 (and newer). A special thanks goes to Josh for updating to the binary windows library in the rwinlib repository allowing us a seamless CRAN update. The package needs some help, though. The...
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RcppArmadillo 0.9.200.5.0
A new RcppArmadillo release arrived at CRAN overnight. The version 0.9.200.5.0 is a minor upgrade and based on the new Armadillo bugfix release 9.200.5 from yesterday. I also just uploaded the Debian version. Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra aiming towards a good balance between speed and ease of use ...
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It was twenty years ago …
… this week that I made a first cameo in the debian/changelog for the Debian R package: r-base (0.63.1-1) unstable; urgency=low New upstream release Linked html directory to /usr/doc/r-base/doc/html (Dirk Eddelbuettel) – Douglas Bates [email protected] Fri, 4 Dec 1998 14:22:19 -0600 For the next few years I assisted Doug here and there, ...
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It was twenty years ago …
… this week that I made a first cameo in the debian/changelog for the Debian R package: r-base (0.63.1-1) unstable; urgency=low New upstream release Linked html directory to /usr/doc/r-base/doc/html (Dirk Eddelbuettel) – Douglas Bates [email protected] Fri, 4 Dec 1998 14:22:19 -0600 For the next few years I assisted Doug here and there, ...
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