Publications by Thinking inside the box
tint 0.1.1: New Styles
With almost year passed since the previous 0.1.0 release, a nice new release of the tint package arrived on CRAN 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. This version adds new features, and a new co-author. Jonathan Gilligan calmly and persistently convi...
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Rblpapi 0.3.10: B-PIPE support and other updates
A new version of Rblpapi arrived at CRAN today as version 0.3.10. It regroups several sets of changes (see below). The most notable addition is an extension to use B-PIPE for high-performance bulk data access (in case you are provisioned for it) contributed by Alfred Kanzler in a carefully written and revised pull request. Rblpapi provides a dire...
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tint 0.1.2: Some cleanups
A new version 0.1.2 of the tint package is arriving at CRAN as I write this. It follows the recent 0.1.1 release which included two fabulous new vignettes featuring new font choices. The package name expands from tint is not tufte as the package offers a fresher take on the Tufte-style for html and pdf presentations. However, with the new vignett...
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RcppArmadillo 0.9.400.2.0
A new RcppArmadillo release based on the very recent Armadillo upstream release arrived on CRAN earlier today, and will get to Debian shortly. 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 Matlab. RcppArmadillo integr...
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x13binary 1.1.39-2
An updated x13binary package 1.1.39-2 of the X-13ARIMA-SEATS program by the US Census Bureau (with upstream release 1.1.39) is now on CRAN, pretty much exactly two years after the previous release 1.1.39-1. The x13binary package takes the pain out of installing X-13ARIMA-SEATS by making it a fully resolved CRAN dependency. For example, if you ins...
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RcppArmadillo 0.9.400.3.0
The recent 0.9.400.2.0 release of RcppArmadillo required a bug fix release. Conrad follow up on Armadillo 9.400.2 with 9.400.3 – which we packaged (and tested extensively as usual). It is now on CRAN and will get to Debian shortly. Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra aiming towards a good balance betwe...
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RcppAnnoy 0.0.12
A new release of RcppAnnoy is now on CRAN. RcppAnnoy is the Rcpp-based R integration of the nifty Annoy library by Erik. Annoy is a small and lightweight C++ template header library for very fast approximate nearest neighbours—originally developed to drive the famous Spotify music discovery algorithm. This release brings several updates: Seed s...
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RQuantLib 0.4.9: Another small updates
A new version 0.4.9 of RQuantLib reached CRAN and Debian. It completes the change of some internals of RQuantLib to follow suit to an upstream change in QuantLib. We can now seamlessly switch between shared_ptr<> from Boost and from C++11 – Luigi wrote about the how and why in an excellent blog post that is part of a larger (and also excellent)...
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digest 0.6.19
Overnight, digest version 0.6.19 arrived on CRAN. It will get uploaded to Debian in due course. digest creates hash digests of arbitrary R objects (using the md5, sha-1, sha-256, sha-512, crc32, xxhash32, xxhash64, murmur32, and spookyhash algorithms) permitting easy comparison of R language objects. This version contains two new functions adding...
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nanotime 0.2.4
Another minor maintenance release of the nanotime package for working with nanosecond timestamps arrived on CRAN yesterday. nanotime uses the RcppCCTZ package for (efficient) high(er) resolution time parsing and formatting up to nanosecond resolution, and the bit64 package for the actual integer64 arithmetic. Initially implemented using the S3 sy...
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