Publications by Thinking inside the box
RcppArmadillo 0.9.700.2.0
A new RcppArmadillo release based on a new Armadillo upstream release arrived on CRAN, and will get to Debian shortly. It brings continued improvements for sparse matrices and a few other things; see below for more details. I also appear to have skipped blogging about the preceding 0.9.600.4.0 release (which was actually extra-rigorous with an un...
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pinp 0.0.8: Bugfix
A new release of our pinp package is now on CRAN. pinp allows for snazzier one or two column Markdown-based pdf vignettes, and is now used by a few packages. A screenshot of the package vignette can be seen below. Additional screenshots are at the pinp page. This release was spurned by one of those "CRAN package xyz" emails I received yesterday:...
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ttdo 0.0.3: New package
A new package of mine arrived on CRAN yesterday, having been uploaded a few days prior on the weekend. It extends the most excellent (and very minimal / zero depends) unit testing package tinytest by Mark van der Loo with the very clever and well-done diffobj package by Brodie Gaslam. Mark also tweeted about it. The package was written to addres...
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pinp 0.0.9: Real Fix and Polish
Another pinp package release! pinp allows for snazzier one or two column Markdown-based pdf vignettes, and is now used by a few packages. A screenshot of the package vignette can be seen below. Additional screenshots are at the pinp page. This release comes exactly one week (i.e. the minimal time to not earn a NOTE) after the hot-fix release 0.0...
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digest 0.6.21
A new version of digest is just now arriving at CRAN (following a slight holdup over one likely spurious reverse dependency error), and I will send an updated 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...
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RcppAnnoy 0.0.13
A new release of RcppAnnoy is now on CRAN. RcppAnnoy is the Rcpp-based R integration of the nifty Annoy library by Erik Bernhardsson. 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 up...
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RcppArmadillo 0.9.800.1.0
Another month, another Armadillo upstream release! Hence a new RcppArmadillo release arrived on CRAN earlier today, and was just shipped to Debian as well. It brings a faster solve() method and other goodies. We also switched to the (awesome) tinytest unit test frameowrk, and Min Kim made the configure.ac script more portable for the benefit of N...
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GitHub Streak: Round Six
Five ago I referenced the Seinfeld Streak used in an earlier post of regular updates to to the Rcpp Gallery: This is sometimes called Jerry Seinfeld’s secret to productivity: Just keep at it. Don’t break the streak. and then showed the first chart of GitHub streaking github activity october 2013 to october 2014 And four year ago a first f...
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GitHub Streak: Round Six
Five ago I referenced the Seinfeld Streak used in an earlier post of regular updates to to the Rcpp Gallery: This is sometimes called Jerry Seinfeld’s secret to productivity: Just keep at it. Don’t break the streak. and then showed the first chart of GitHub streaking github activity october 2013 to october 2014 And four year ago a first f...
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RcppGSL 0.3.7: Fixes and updates
A new release 0.3.7 of RcppGSL is now on CRAN. The RcppGSL package provides an interface from R to the GNU GSL using the Rcpp package. Stephen Wade noticed that we were not actually freeing memory from the GSL vectors and matrices as we set out to do. And he is quite right: a dormant bug, present since the 0.3.0 release, has now been squashed. I ...
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