A bug-fix release 0.9.12 of Rcpp arrived earlier today on CRAN and is now in Debian too. This fixes a minor snafu with the Rcpp::Enviroment constructor following a minor change made for 0.9.11. It also reduces the number of unit tests running by de...

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Release 0.9.11 of Rcpp arrived on CRAN this morning and in Debian later today. This is a somewhat incremental release with a few internal improvements and few new features. One interesting new development has been contributed by John Chambers who i...

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A new stable release 3.2.0 of Armadillo is now available. As usual, we have wrapped this into a new RcppArmadillo package, now at 0.3.0.2; and this version is now available via CRAN. The short NEWS entry follows below. For those interested in follo...

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A new release 0.2.4 of RProtoBuf is now on CRAN. RProtoBuf provides GNU R bindings for the Google Protobuf data encoding library used and released by Google. This release once again contains a number of patches kindly contributed by Murray Stokely...

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CRAN now tests packages against g++-4.7 (as this version has become the default on Debian's testing variant. This compiler switch once again triggered a set of build failures, mostly from include files now deemed missing. For RcppSMC, it came down ...

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Two days ago, Conrad Sanderson released another bug-fix version 3.0.3 for the 3.0.0 branch of his excellent Armadillo C++ template library for linear algebra. The new RcppArmadillo release 0.3.0.3 which contains it appeared on CRAN yesterday. Beside ...

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Earlier today, Conrad Sanderson released another bug-fix version 3.0.2 for the still fairly recent 3.0.0 version of his excellent Armadillo C++ template library for linear algebra. The new RcppArmadillo release 0.3.0.2 also appeared on CRAN this morn...

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RDieHarder is an R package providing access to the DieHarder battery of tests for random number generators developed by Robert G. Brown and others. DieHarder had been updated to version 3.1.1 a while back, and I had been a little behind with updating...

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Conrad Sanderson released a bug-fix version 3.0.1 following up on the very recent 3.0.0 version of his excellent Armadillo C++ template library for linear algebra. I made a new RcppArmadillo release 0.3.0.1 which just appeared on CRAN. The short ...

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Conrad Sanderson has released a new major version 3.0.0 of his excellent Armadillo C++ template library for linear algebra. A corresponding new release 0.3.0 of RcppArmadillo is now on CRAN. This follows four pre-releases of Armadillo which we pack...

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