A new minor version 0.2.3 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 civ... [Read more...]

Welcome to the seventh post in the rarely relevant R ramblings series, or R4 for short. We took a short break as several conferences and other events interfered during the month of May, keeping us busy and away from this series. But we are back now with a short and ... [Read more...]

A new package! Or at least new on CRAN as the very initial version 0.1.0 had been available via the ghrr drat for over a year. But now we have version 0.1.1 to announce as a CRAN package. RcppMspPack provides R with MessagePack header files for use v... [Read more...]

A new version of the anytime package is now on CRAN. It marks the eleventh release since the inaugural version late last summer. anytime is a very focused package aiming to do just one thing really well: to convert anything in integer, numeric, character, factor, ordered, ... format to either POSIXct ... [Read more...]

The new RcppArmadillo release 0.7.900.2.0 is now on CRAN, and the Debian package was just updated as well. Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra aiming towards a good balance between speed and ease of use wit... [Read more...]

The elevent update in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp landed on CRAN yesterday following the initial upload on the weekend, and the Debian package and Windows binaries should follow as usual. The 0.12.11 release follows the 0.12.0 release from late July, the 0.12.1 release in September, the 0.12.2 release in November, the 0.12.3 release in January, ... [Read more...]

Very excited about the next few weeks which will cover a number of R conferences, workshops or classes with talks, mostly around Rcpp and one notable exception: May 19: Rcpp: From Simple Examples to Machine learning, pre-conference workshop at our R... [Read more...]

A new release 0.2.14 of RInside is now on CRAN and in Debian. RInside provides a set of convenience classes which facilitate embedding of R inside of C++ applications and programs, using the classes and functions provided by Rcpp. It has been nearly two years since the last release, and a ... [Read more...]

The US Census Bureau released a new build 1.1.39 of their X-13ARIMA-SEATS program, released as binary and source. So Christoph and went to work and updated our x13binary package on CRAN. The x13binary package takes the pain out of installing X-13ARIM... [Read more...]

A new RcppEigen release 0.3.3.3.0 was put into CRAN (and Debian) a few days ago. It brings Eigen 3.3.* to R. Once again, Yixuan Qiu did most of the heavy lifting over a multi-month period as some adjustments needed to be made in the package itself, a... [Read more...]

Welcome to the sixth post in the really random R riffs series, or R4 for short. Posts #1 and #2 discussed how to get the now de rigeur package registration information computed. In essence, we pointed to something which R 3.4.0 would have, and provided tricks for accessing it while R 3.3.3 was still ... [Read more...]

A new bug fix release of RcppTOML arrived on CRAN today. Table arrays were (wrongly) not allowing for nesting; a simply recursion fix addresses this. RcppTOML brings TOML to R. TOML is a file format that is most suitable for configurations, as it is meant to be edited by humans ... [Read more...]

Time for a new release of Rblpapi -- version 0.3.6 is now on CRAN. Rblpapi provides a direct interface between R and the Bloomberg Terminal via the C++ API provided by Bloomberg Labs (but note that a valid Bloomberg license and installation is requir... [Read more...]

New package! And, as it happens, a effectively a subset or variant of one my oldest packages, RQuantLib. Fairly recently, Peter Caspers started to put together a header-only subset of QuantLib. He called this Quantuccia, and, upon me asking, said that it stands for "little sister" of QuantLib. Very nice. ... [Read more...]

Moments ago Rcpp passed a big milestone as there are now 1000 packages on CRAN depending on it (as measured by Depends, Imports and LinkingTo, but excluding Suggests). The graph is on the left depicts the growth of Rcpp usage over time. One easy way... [Read more...]

Welcome to the fifth post in the recklessly rambling R rants series, or R4 for short. The third post showed an easy way to follow R development by monitoring (curated) changes on the NEWS file for the development version r-devel. As a concrete example, I mentioned that it has shown ... [Read more...]

A new RcppArmadillo version 0.7.800.2.0 is now on CRAN. Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra aiming towards a good balance between speed and ease of use with a syntax deliberately close to a Matlab. RcppArma... [Read more...]

Welcome to the fourth post in the repulsively random R ramblings series, or R4 for short. My twitter feed was buzzing about a nice (and as yet unpublished, ie not-on-CRAN) package https://github.com/dirkschumacher/thankr by Dirk Schumacher which compiles a a list of packages (ordered by maintainer count) ... [Read more...]

Welcome to the third post in the rarely relevant R recommendation series, or R4 for short. Today will be brief, but of some importance. In order to know where R is going next, few places provide a better vantage point than the actual ongoing developm... [Read more...]

A brown bag bug fix release 0.0.3 of RApiDatetime is now on CRAN. RApiDatetime provides six entry points for C-level functions of the R API for Date and Datetime calculations. The functions asPOSIXlt and asPOSIXct convert between long and compact dat... [Read more...]