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...
A new package pkgKitten is now on CRAN in its infant version 0.1.0. It does only one thing: create R packages that do not suck. Or at least not as much as those created by the (R default) function package.skeleton() which creates files which the v...
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-...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
This is an updated version of an earlier post in March. A number of talks about Rcpp are scheduled over the next couple of months: On Wednesday May 14 I will be speaking at the Chicago R Users Group meeting charmingly titled Warm Up for R...
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. ...
A new release 4.300 of Armadillo, the templated C++ library for linear algebra, was released by Conrad a few days ago. As usual, this was rolled up in a new RcppArmadillo release 0.4.300.0 which is now on CRAN and in Debian. This release brings ni...
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