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Just before Xmas, Conrad Sanderson released version 1.1.0 of Armadillo, his templated C++ library for linear algebra. Which I only noticed this week, so here comes version 0.2.11 of RcppArmadillo, our Rcpp-based integration into R.

The only other change is the addition of an unexported function SHLIB which can be used to compiled a single source file into a loadable shared library file for R, while automagically find Rcpp and RcppArmadillo headers and the Rcpp library.

The short NEWS file extract follows, also containing Conrad’s entry for 1.1.0:

0.2.11  2011-01-06

indices are specified in a separate vector
* Added interpretation of matrices as triangular via
trimatu()/trimatl()
* Faster solve(), inv() via explicit handling of triangular matrices
* The stream for logging of errors and warnings can now be changed

o   New unexported R function SHLIB, a small wrapper around R CMD SHLIB,
which can be used as   Rscript -e "RcppArmadillo:::SHLIB('foo.cpp')"


And courtesy of CRANberries, here is the diff to the previous release 0.2.10:
 ChangeLog                                               |   17
DESCRIPTION                                             |   12
R/SHLIB.R                                               |only
inst/NEWS                                               |   13
inst/doc/Makefile                                       |    5