With the arrival earlier today of the stochvol package onto the CRAN network for R, our Rcpp project reached a new milestone: 100 packages have either a Depends:, Imports: or LinkingTo: statement on it. The full list will always be at the bottom of ...

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digest version 0.6.1 is now on CRAN, and I will push the corresponding version into Debian shortly. Duncan Murdoch added AES support, and helped me fix two issues which (annoyingly) made the Rout.save output differ on another platform. CRANberries...

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Earlier this morning, JJ announced what we had been working on for the last few weeks: the Rcpp Gallery. Now, as our luck will have it, the Rcpp-devel list received his message but did not transmit it for an apparent mail system outage at WU Vienna:...

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Yesterday's initial upload of RcppClassicExamples was lacking a versioned Depends: to prevent builds on older versions of R. This has been added in a new upload 0.1.1. We also added a NEWS file (see below); no code changes were made. Changes in ver...

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The recent releases of Rcpp 0.10.2 and RcppClassic 0.9.3 had one more repercussion. On that dreaded OS, the linker no longer wanted to instantiate a symbol present in both packages; seems to me that the linker in the other two OSs is a little smarter...

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Yesterday's release of Rcpp 0.10.2 required a small change to RcppClassic, the package supporting the deprecated older classic Rcpp API defined in the earlier 2005 to 2006 releases. So version 0.9.3 of RcppClassic is now on CRAN. There is no new user...

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Relase 0.10.2 of Rcpp provides the second update to the 0.10.* series, and has arrived on CRAN and in Debian.

It brings another great set of enhancements and extensions, building on the recent 0.10.0 and 0.10.1 releases. The new Rcpp attributes were rewritten to not require Rcpp modules (as we encountered on issue with exceptions on Windows when built this...

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The text below just went out to r-sig-finance along with updates to the R/Finance website and its Call for Papers page. Call for Papers: R/Finance 2013: Applied Finance with R May 17 and 18, 2013 University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA The ...

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A first minor bug-fix update by Conrad to the 3.6 series of Armadillo arrived today as version 3.6.1, and we prepared a corresponding version 0.3.6.1 of RcppArmadillo, our wrapper for R and Armadillo. This is now on CRAN, and the changes are summari...

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Following the Rcpp 0.10.0 release, I had written about simulating pi easily by using the wonderful new Rcpp Attributes feature. Now with Rcpp 0.10.1 released a good week ago, it is time to look at how Rcpp Attributes can help with external libraries. As this posts aims to show, it is a breeze!

One key aspect is the use of...

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