Articles by Thinking inside the box

#38: Faster Feedback Systems

June 19, 2022 | Thinking inside the box

Engineers build systems. Good engineers always stress and focus efficiency of these systems. Two recent examples of engineering thinking follow. One was in a video / podcast interview with Martin Thompson (who is a noted high-performance code expert)... [Read more...]

AsioHeaders 1.22.1-1 on CRAN

June 15, 2022 | Thinking inside the box

An updated version of the AsioHeaders package arrived at CRAN yesterday (in one of those pleasant fully-automated uploads and transitions). Asio provides a cross-platform C++ library for network and low-level I/O programming. It is also included in B... [Read more...]

RcppAPT 0.0.9: Minor Update

May 25, 2022 | Thinking inside the box

A new version of the RcppAPT package with the R interface to the C++ library behind the awesome apt, apt-get, apt-cache, … commands and their cache powering Debian, Ubuntu and the like arrived on CRAN earlier today. RcppAPT allows you to query the (D... [Read more...]

ttdo 0.0.6: Bugfix

July 28, 2020 | Thinking inside the box

A bugfix release of our (still small) ttdo package arrived on CRAN overnight. As introduced last fall, the ttdo package extends the most excellent (and very minimal / zero depends) unit testing package tinytest by Mark van der Loo with the very cleve... [Read more...]

drat 0.1.8: Minor test fix

July 18, 2020 | Thinking inside the box

A new version of drat arrived on CRAN today. This is a follow-up release to 0.1.7 from a week ago. It contains a quick follow-up by Felix Ernst to correct on of the tests which misbehaved under the old release of R still being tested at CRAN. drat s... [Read more...]

RcppArmadillo 0.9.900.2.0

July 17, 2020 | Thinking inside the box

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 integrates this library with the R environment and... [Read more...]

drat 0.1.7: New functionality

July 11, 2020 | Thinking inside the box

A new version of drat arrived on CRAN yesterday. Once again, this release is mostly the work of Felix Ernst who extended some work from the previous release, and added support for repository updates (outside of package insertion) and more. drat stan... [Read more...]

AsioHeaders 1.16.1-1 on CRAN

July 7, 2020 | Thinking inside the box

An updated version of the AsioHeaders package arrived on CRAN today (after a we days of “rest” in the incoming directory of CRAN). Asio provides a cross-platform C++ library for network and low-level I/O programming. It is also included in Boost ... [Read more...]
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