RcppArmadillo 0.3.4.1

September 18, 2012

(This article was first published on Thinking inside the box , and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)

Conrad released the bug-fix release 3.4.1 of Armadillo earlier today, and the corresponding RcppArmadillo package 0.3.4.1 is already on CRAN. No R level or interface changes were, the upstream changes are summarized below.

Changes in RcppArmadillo version 0.3.4.1 (2012-09-18)

Upgraded to Armadillo release 3.4.1

workaround for a bug in the Mac OS X accelerate framework

fixes for handling empty sparse matrices

added documentation for saving & loading matrices in HDF5 format

faster dot() and cdot() for complex numbers

Courtesy of CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report for 0.3.4.1 relative to 0.3.4.0 As always, more detailed information is on the RcppArmadillo page. Questions, comments etc should go to the rcpp-devel mailing list off the R-Forge page.

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