Publications by Thinking inside the box
Beancounter minor bug fix release 0.8.9
Another small update to beancounter and just like the previous release due to changes in Perl’s Date::Manip. It seems that Date_Calc now really wants a reference to store error codes, so we supply one. I also changed the FX code to use OandA ad there are often issues with Yahoo’s FX data. The version 0.8.9 is now in Debian, at CPAN and on m...
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inline 0.3.4 released
Oleg has updated the inline package to version 0.3.4 which is now on CRAN. It is includes my patch for both Rcpp support as well as extended header / library options for PKG_CPPFLAGS, PKG_CXXFLAGS, and PKG_LIBS which I had mentioned recently here and here. There is also a brand-new and shiny R-Forge project for it. A new release of Rcpp will...
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Rcpp 0.7.1
Two weeks after the Rcpp 0.7.0 release, Romain and I are happy to announce release 0.7.1 of Rcpp. It is currently in the incoming section of CRAN and has been accepted into Debian. Mirrors will catch up over the next few days, in the meantime the local page is available for download too. A lot has changed under the hood since 0.7.0, and th...
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littler 0.1.3
A new littler release (now at 0.1.3) just went out of the door this evening. littler provides r (pronounced littler), a shebang / scripting / quick eval / pipelining front-end to the the R language and system. This version adds a few minor behind-the-scenes improvements: interactive() now evaluates to false as you’d expect in a non-interac...
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RInside release 0.2.1
The shiny new 0.2.1 release of RInside, a set of convenience classes to facilitate embedding of R inside of C++ applications, just went out to CRAN; sources are also at my RInside page This is a maintenance release building on the recent 0.2.0 release which added Windows support (provided you use the Rtools toolchain for Windows). In this rel...
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Review of ‘Computational Statistics: An Introduction to R’ in JSS
Somehow missed during the the end-of-year switchover was the fact that my review of Guenther Sawitzki’s Computational Statistics: An Introduction to R (CRC / Chapman \& Hall, 2009) is now up on the Journal of Statistical Software website. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Thinking ...
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RQuantLib 0.3.2 released
A new version of RQuantLib (a package combining the quantitative analytics of QuantLib with the R statistical computing environment and language) is now out at CRAN and in Debian (where it depends on the 1.0.0 beta of QuantLib that is currently in the NEW queue with its new library version). This RQuantLib release works with either the curren...
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Rcpp 0.7.3
A quick nine days after release 0.7.2 of Rcpp, our R / C++ interface classes, Romain and I are happy to roll out a new version 0.7.3. It has been uploaded to CRAN and Debian, and mirrors should have the new versions shortly. As before, my local page is also available for downloads and some more details. This release combines a number of under-...
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Rcpp 0.7.4
Yesterday, and about nine days after release 0.7.3 of Rcpp (a set of R / C++ interface classes), Romain and I released version 0.7.4. It has been uploaded to CRAN and Debian, and mirrors should already have new versions. As before, my local page is also available for downloads and some more details. The release once again combines a number of ...
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RProtoBuf 0.1-0
Romain uploaded our first release of RProtoBuf to CRAN yesterday. RProtoBuf provides bindings for GNU R to the Google Protobuf implementation. Google Protobuf is (and I quote) a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format that is used for almost all internal RPC protocols and file formats at Google. RProtoBuf had a fun...
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