A new version of our RcppTOML package just arrived on CRAN. It wraps an updated version of the cpptoml parser which, after a correction or two, now brings support for TOML v0.5.0 – which is still rather rare. RcppTOML brings TOML to R. TOML is a fi... [Read more...]

The first update in a little while brings us release 0.0.4 of RApiDatetime which got onto CRAN this morning via the lovely automated sequence of submission, pretest-recheck and pretest-publish. RApiDatetime provides seven entry points for C-level fun... [Read more...]

A new bugfix release 0.2.5 of RcppCCTZ got onto CRAN this morning – just a good week after the previous release. RcppCCTZ uses Rcpp to bring CCTZ to R. CCTZ is a C++ library for translating between absolute and civil times using the rules of a time... [Read more...]

A new package of ours, RcppNLoptExample, arrived on CRAN yesterday after a somewhat longer-than-usual wait for new packages as CRAN seems really busy these days. As always, a big and very grateful Thank You! for all they do to keep this community hum... [Read more...]

Four years ago I referenced the Seinfeld Streak used in an earlier post of regular updates to to the Rcpp Gallery: This is sometimes called Jerry Seinfeld’s secret to productivity: Just keep at it. Don’t break the streak. and then showed the fi... [Read more...]

Four years ago I referenced the Seinfeld Streak used in an earlier post of regular updates to to the Rcpp Gallery: This is sometimes called Jerry Seinfeld’s secret to productivity: Just keep at it. Don’t break the streak. and then showed the fi... [Read more...]

The third release of the binb package just arrived on CRAN, and it comes with a new (and very crispy) theme: Monash. With that we are also thrilled to welcome Rob Hyndman as a co-author. Here is a quick demo combining all (by now four) themes: Also,... [Read more...]

Earlier today, digest version 0.6.18 arrived on CRAN. It will get uploaded to Debian in due course. digest creates hash digests of arbitrary R objects (using the md5, sha-1, sha-256, sha-512, crc32, xxhash32, xxhash64 and murmur32 algorithms) permitt... [Read more...]

A new release 0.2.4 of RcppCCTZ is now on CRAN. RcppCCTZ uses Rcpp to bring CCTZ to R. CCTZ is a C++ library for translating between absolute and civil times using the rules of a time zone. In fact, it is two libraries. One for dealing with civil tim... [Read more...]

The sixth release of littler as a CRAN package is now available, following in the now more than twelve-year history as a package started by Jeff in 2006, and joined by me a few weeks later. littler is the first command-line interface for R and predates Rscript. And it is (in ... [Read more...]

The next bi-monthly update in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp releases landed on CRAN early this morning. It was actually released on September 20, but I made a first cut (see #887 below) at a deprecation which CRAN and I decided to reverted for now, then ... [Read more...]

A minor maintenance release of the nanotime package for working with nanosecond timestamps just arrived on CRAN. nanotime uses the RcppCCTZ package for (efficient) high(er) resolution time parsing and formatting up to nanosecond resolution, and the b... [Read more...]

A new version of RcppAPT – our interface from R to the C++ library behind the awesome apt, apt-get, apt-cache, … commands and their cache powering Debian, Ubuntu and the like – is now on CRAN. This version is a bit of experiment. I had asked on... [Read more...]

As tweeted three days ago, our still-new binb package with crisper Beamer themes for RMarkdown now contains presento. Versions 0.0.2 with this addition just arrived on CRAN. Here is a quick demo combining all themes: Otherwise, we also added links t... [Read more...]

Following a teaser tweet two days ago, we are thrilled to announce that binb version 0.0.1 arrived on CRAN earlier this evening. binb extends a little running joke^Htradition I created a while back and joins three other CRAN packages offering RMarkdo... [Read more...]

digest version 0.6.17 arrived on CRAN earlier today after a day of gestation in the bowels of CRAN, and should get uploaded to Debian in due course. digest creates hash digests of arbitrary R objects (using the md5, sha-1, sha-256, sha-512, crc32, xx... [Read more...]

A first update to the AsioHeaders package arrived on CRAN today. Asio provides a cross-platform C++ library for network and low-level I/O programming. It is also included in Boost – but requires linking when used as part of Boost. This standalone v... [Read more...]

The fifth release of littler as a CRAN package is now available, following in the now more than ten-year history as a package started by Jeff in 2006, and joined by me a few weeks later. littler is the first command-line interface for R and predates Rscript. And it is (in ... [Read more...]

digest version 0.6.16 arrived on CRAN earlier today, and was just prepared for Debian as well. digest creates hash digests of arbitrary R objects (using the 'md5', 'sha-1', 'sha-256', 'sha-512', 'crc32', 'xxhash32', 'xxhash64' and 'murmur32' algorith... [Read more...]

FOAAS upstream recently went to release 2.0.0, so here we are catching up bringing you all the new accessors from FOAAS 2.0.0: bag(), equity(), fts(), ing(), particular(), ridiculous(), and shit(). We also added off_with() which was missing previous... [Read more...]