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littler is faster at doing nothing!

September 2, 2014 | Thinking inside the box

With yesterday's announcement of littler 0.2.0, I kept thinking about a few not-so-frequently-asked but recurring questions about littler. And an obvious one if of course the relationship to Rscript. As we have pointed out before, littler preceded Rscript. Now, with Rscript being present in every R installation, it is of course ... [Read more...]

littler 0.2.0

September 1, 2014 | Thinking inside the box

We are happy to announce a new release of littler. A few minor things have changes since the last release: A few new examples were added or updated, including use of the fabulous new docopt package by Edwin de Jonge which makes command-... [Read more...]

BH release 1.54.0-4

August 29, 2014 | Thinking inside the box

Another small new release of our BH package providing Boost headers for use by R is now on CRAN. This one brings a one-file change: the file any.hpp comprising the Boost.Any library --- as requested by a fellow package maintainer needing it for a pe... [Read more...]

RcppEigen 0.3.2.2.0

August 21, 2014 | Thinking inside the box

A new upstream release of the Eigen C++ template library for linear algebra was released a few days ago. And Yixuan Qiu did some really nice work rolling this into a new RcppEigen released and then sent me a nice pull requent. The new version is now... [Read more...]

RcppArmadillo 0.4.400.0

August 19, 2014 | Thinking inside the box

After two pre-releases in the last few days, Conrad finalised a new Armadillo version 4.400 today. I had kept up with the pre-releases, tested twice against all eighty (!!) CRAN dependents of RcppArmadillo and have hence uploaded RcppArmadillo 0.4.... [Read more...]

BH release 1.54.0-3

August 4, 2014 | Thinking inside the box

A new release of our BH package providing Boost headers for use by R is now on the CRAN mirrors. This release is the third based on Boost 1.54.0. At the request of the maintainer of the recent added RcppMLPACK package, it adds the Boost.Heap l... [Read more...]

Introducing sanitizers 0.1.0

August 3, 2014 | Thinking inside the box

A new package sanitizers is now on CRAN. It provides test cases for Address Sanitizers, and Undefined Behaviour Sanitizers. These are two recent features of both g++ and clang++, and described in the Checking Memory Access section of the Writing R Ex... [Read more...]

RcppArmadillo 0.4.320.0

July 12, 2014 | Thinking inside the box

While I was out at the (immensely impressive and equally enjoyable) useR! 2014 conference at UCLA, Conrad provided a bug-fix release 4.320 of Armadillo, the nifty templated C++ library for linear algebra. I quickly rolled that into RcppArmadillo rel... [Read more...]

Introducing RcppRedis

June 9, 2014 | Thinking inside the box

RcppRedis, another new package of mine, appeared on CRAN a few weeks ago just in time for our annual R/Finance conference. And as of today, we also have Windows binaries thanks to generous help from John Buonagurio who help building the required 32-... [Read more...]

Rcpp 0.11.2

June 8, 2014 | Thinking inside the box

A new minor release 0.11.2 of Rcpp is now on the CRAN network for GNU R, and binaries for Debian have also been uploaded. The release smoothes a few edges on both the Rcpp side itself, as well as on the interaction between Rcpp and R which since... [Read more...]

RcppArmadillo 0.4.300.8.0

June 4, 2014 | Thinking inside the box

A new minor / bug fix release 4.300.8 of Armadillo, the templated C++ library for linear algebra, was tagged by Conrad in his SVN repo a few days ago, following earlier snapshots in the 4.300.* series. We had prepared two earlier releases for GitHub... [Read more...]

Introducing RPushbullet

June 3, 2014 | Thinking inside the box

A new package of mine appeared on CRAN today: RPushbullet. A few days ago, I had tweeted about a first version available via its GitHub repo. The package is now on CRAN which will make it easier to install for many. You still need an API key (free,... [Read more...]

RcppGSL 0.2.1 and 0.2.2

May 31, 2014 | Thinking inside the box

A few days ago, version 0.2.1 of RcppGSL---our interface package between R and the GNU GSL using our Rcpp package for seamless R and C++ integration---appeared on CRAN making it the first release in some time. And it turned that this version tickle... [Read more...]

RcppEigen 0.3.2.1.2

May 6, 2014 | Thinking inside the box

A bug-fix release 0.3.2.1.2 is of RcppEigen is now on CRAN and in Debian. It contains a short upstream patch by Gaek Guennebaud for the UBSAN warnings that were flagged at CRAN (from a rather harmless cpu-id comparison). The NEWS entry follows. ... [Read more...]
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