A new Armadillo version 3.800.0 is now out. Conrad picked a new numbering scheme to coincide with the relicensing from LGPL to MPL 2.0. The new version 0.3.800.0 of the corresponding RcppArmadillo package (which still uses GPL 2 or later) is now on ...
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inline 0.3.11
A maintenance release of inline is now on CRAN, and is being uploaded to Debian. The release fixes two minor bugs kindly reported by users. As the two previous releases appear to not have been announced here, their NEWS entries are included as well. ...
Two papers about RcppEigen and RcppArmadillo published
Two papers got published recently. The first one is Bates and Eddelbuettel (2013). It is titled Fast and Elegant Numerical Linear Algebra Using the RcppEigen Package, and provides a pretty thorough introduction to our RcppEigen package which uses Rcpp to provide access to the Eigen C++ template library from GNU R. The paper is out as Volume 50, Issue 5 at the (all...
RcppArmadillo 0.3.6.3
A new Armadillo version 3.6.3 came out this morning, and the corresponding RcppArmadillo version is now on CRAN. Changes are incremental:Changes in RcppArmadillo version 0.3.6.3 (2013-02-20)Upgraded to Armadillo release Version 3.6.3 ...
New Rcpp master class scheduled for New York
A new Rcpp master class is scheduled for March 9 in New York. The format will an updated version of the one-day workshops I have given at the University of Rochester in 2010, in San Franciso in 2011 (organised by Revolution Analytics) and at the UseR...
RQuantLib 0.3.10
A new minor release RQuantLib 0.3.10 is now on CRAN and in Debian. RQuantLib combines (some of) the quantitative analytics of QuantLib with the R statistical computing environment and language.The discount curve building code in QuantLib has s...
digest 0.6.3
digest version 0.6.3 is now on CRAN, and I'll upload the Debian package in a minute.This is a minor bug release regarding just the recently-added sha512 support. Turns out the wrong initial buffer size was used on the R side. Hannes fixed that with...
A book about Rcpp
Some little birds had already been whispering about it, but I didn't want to jinx it and told myself I would wait with an announcement until the booksellers have (at least) placeholder pages. And as I learned from Duncan Murdoch via email earlier toda...
New Rcpp page on upcoming events — including Master Class in New York
Lots of exciting things are happening with and around Rcpp. I just added a new page about Upcoming Events to the recently-created Rcpp site. This events page has lots to cover: an upcoming talk at Columbia on March 8 (details still TBD), a day-lon...
The Rcpp Gallery and my <em>Seinfeld Streak</em>
A good three weeks ago, we introduced the Rcpp Gallery. While this is a joint effort by several of us on the Rcpp team, the backend was conceived and implemented entirely by JJ who also bootstrapped it with same first content, drawing on posts by Ha...
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