A maintenance release RcppClassic 0.9.9 is now at CRAN. This package provides a maintained version of the otherwise deprecated first Rcpp API; no new projects should use it. Per a request from CRAN, we changed the call to Rcpp::Rcpp.plugin.maker() to... [Read more...]

The tenth (!!) annual annual R/Finance conference will take in Chicago on the UIC campus on June 1 and 2, 2018. Please see the call for papers below (or at the website) and consider submitting a paper. We are once again very excited about our conference, thrilled about who we hope may agree ... [Read more...]

A shiny new (mostly-but-not-completely maintenance) release of RQuantLib, now at version 0.4.4, arrived on CRAN overnight, and will get to Debian shortly. This is the first release in over a year, and it it contains (mostly) a small number of fixes t... [Read more...]

A first maintenance release of RcppQuantuccia got to CRAN earlier today. RcppQuantuccia brings the Quantuccia header-only subset / variant of QuantLib to R. At present it mostly offers calendaring, but Quantuccia just got a decent amount of new funct... [Read more...]

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A maintenance release of the tint package arrived on CRAN earlier today. Its name expands from tint is not tufte as the package offers a fresher take on the Tufte-style for html and pdf presentations. A screenshot of the pdf variant is below. Thi... [Read more...]

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Three 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 showed the first chart of GitHub streaking And two year ago ... [Read more...]

We are thrilled to announce a new big RcppArmadillo release! Conrad recently moved Armadillo to the 8.* series, with significant improvements and speed ups for sparse matrix operations, and more. See below for a brief summary. This also required some changes at our end which Binxiang Ni provided, and Serguei Sokol ... [Read more...]

RProtoBuf provides R bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers ("ProtoBuf") data encoding and serialization library used and released by Google, and deployed fairly widely in numerous projects as a language and operating-system agnostic protocol. A new releases RProtoBuf 0.4.11 appeared on CRAN earlier today. Not unlike the other recent releases, it ... [Read more...]

The thirteenth release in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp landed on CRAN this morning, following a little delay because Uwe Ligges was traveling and whatnot. We had announced its availability to the mailing list late last week. As usual, a rather substanti... [Read more...]

A maintenance release of RcppZiggurat is now on the CRAN network for R. It switched the vignette to the our new pinp package and its two-column pdf default. The RcppZiggurat package updates the code for the Ziggurat generator which provides very fas... [Read more...]

A few short weeks after the more substantial 0.0.9 release of RcppAnnoy, we have a quick bug-fix update. RcppAnnoy is our Rcpp-based R integration of the nifty Annoy library by Erik. Annoy is a small and lightweight C++ template header library for ve... [Read more...]

A maintenance update RcppGSL 0.3.3 is now on CRAN. It switched the vignette to the our new pinp package and its two-column pdf default. The RcppGSL package provides an interface from R to the GNU GSL using the Rcpp package. No user-facing new code or... [Read more...]

A new version of the RcppCNPy package arrived on CRAN yesterday. RcppCNPy provides R with read and write access to NumPy files thanks to the cnpy library by Carl Rogers. This version updates internals for function registration, but otherwise mostly s... [Read more...]

A bug-fix release RcppClassic 0.9.8 for the very recent 0.9.7 release which fixes a build issue on macOS introduced in 0.9.7. No other changes. Courtesy of CRANberries, there are changes relative to the previous release. Questions, comments etc shoul... [Read more...]

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A rather boring and otherwise uneventful release 0.9.7 of RcppClassic is now at CRAN. This package provides a maintained version of the otherwise deprecated first Rcpp API; no new projects should use it. Once again no changes in user-facing code. But... [Read more...]