Publications by Thinking inside the box
littler 0.3.8: Several nice new features
The nineth release of littler as a CRAN package is now available, following in the thirteen-ish 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. And it is (in my very biased eyes) better as it allows for piping as well for shebang scripti...
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#22: Using Rocker and PPAs for Fun and Profit
Welcome to the 22nd post in the reasonably rational R recommendations series, or R4 for short. This post premieres something new: a matching video in lightning talk style: The topic is something we had mentioned a few times before in this r^4 blog series, for example in this post on finding deb packages as well as in this post on binary installa...
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RcppArmadillo 0.9.500.2.0
A new RcppArmadillo release based on a new Armadillo upstream release arrived on CRAN, and will get to Debian shortly. It brings a few upstream changes, including extened interfaces to LAPACK following the recent gcc/gfortran issue. See below for more details. Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra aiming t...
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anytime 0.3.4
A new minor release of the anytime package is arriving on CRAN. This is the fifteenth release, and first since the 0.3.3 release in November. 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 – and to do so ...
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binb 0.0.4: Several nice improvements
The fourth release of the binb package just arrived on CRAN. binb regroups four rather nice themes for writing LaTeX Beamer presentations much more easily in in (R)Markdown. As a teaser, a quick demo combining all four themes follows; documentation and examples are in the package. This release brings a few nice pull requests. Rob Hyndman, improv...
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RcppTOML 0.1.6: Tinytest support and more robustification
A new RcppTOML release is now on CRAN. RcppTOML brings TOML to R. TOML is a file format that is most suitable for configurations, as it is meant to be edited by humans but read by computers. It emphasizes strong readability for humans while at the same time supporting strong typing as well as immediate and clear error reports. On small typos you ...
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rvw 0.6.0: First release
Note: Crossposted by Ivan, James and myself. Today Dirk Eddelbuettel, James Balamuta and Ivan Pavlov are happy to announce the first release of a reworked R interface to the Vowpal Wabbit machine learning system. Started as a GSoC 2018 project, the new rvw package was built to give R users easier access to a variety of efficient machine learnin...
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RProtoBuf 0.4.14
A new release 0.4.14 of RProtoBuf is arriving at CRAN. RProtoBuf provides R with bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers (“ProtoBuf”) data encoding and serialization library used and released by Google, and deployed very widely in numerous projects as a language and operating-system agnostic protocol. This release contains two very helpful p...
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digest 0.6.20
This morning, digest version 0.6.20 went to CRAN, and I will send a package to Debian shortly as well. 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 only internal cha...
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