Articles by Thinking inside the box

Rcpp 0.12.8: And more goodies

November 18, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

Yesterday the eighth update in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp made it to the CRAN network for GNU R where the Windows binary has by now been generated too; the Debian package is on its way as well. This 0.12.8 release follows the 0.12.0 release from late ... [Read more...]

anytime 0.1.0: New features, some fixes

November 7, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

A new release of anytime is now on CRAN following the four releases in September and October. anytime aims to convert anything in integer, numeric, character, factor, ordered, ... format to POSIXct (or Date) objects -- and does so without requiring a format string. See the anytime page for a few ... [Read more...]

gettz 0.0.3

November 7, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

A minor release 0.0.3 of gettz arrived on CRAN two days ago. gettz provides a possible fallback in situations where Sys.timezone() fails to determine the system timezone. That can happen when e.g. the file /etc/localtime somehow is not a link into th... [Read more...]

RProtoBuf 0.4.7: Mostly harmless

October 29, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

CRAN requested a release updating any URLs for Omegahat to the (actually working) omegahat.net URL. The RProtoBuf package had this in one code comment (errr...) and on bibfile entry. Oh well -- so that caused this 0.4.7 release which arrived on CRAN today. It contains the requested change, and pretty ... [Read more...]

drat 0.1.2: Mostly harmless

October 29, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

CRAN requested a release updating any URLs for Omegahat to the (actually working) omegahat.net URL. So that caused this 0.1.2 release which arrived on CRAN yesterday. It contains the requested change along with one or two other mostly minor changes w... [Read more...]

Rblpapi 0.3.5

October 25, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

A new release of Rblpapi 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 required). This is the sixth rel... [Read more...]

RcppArmadillo 0.7.500.0.0

October 22, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

A few days ago, Conrad released Armadillo 7.500.0. The corresponding RcppArmadillo release 0.7.500.0.0 is now on CRAN (and will get into Debian shortly). Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra aiming towards a... [Read more...]

anytime 0.0.4: New features and fixes

October 20, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

A brand-new release of anytime is now on CRAN following the three earlier releases since mid-September. anytime aims to convert anything in integer, numeric, character, factor, ordered, ... format to POSIXct (or Date) objects -- and does so without requiring a format string. See the anytime page for a few examples. ... [Read more...]

gettz 0.0.2

October 17, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

Release 0.0.2 of gettz is now on CRAN. gettz provides a possible fallback in situations where Sys.timezone() fails to determine the system timezone. That can happen when e.g. the file /etc/localtime somehow is not a link into the corresponding file w... [Read more...]

tint 0.0.3: Tint Is Not Tufte

October 15, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

The tint package, whose name stands for Tint Is Not Tufte , on CRAN offers a fresh take on the excellent Tufte-style for html and pdf presentations. It marks a milestone for me: I finally have a repository with more "stars" than commits. Gotta keep an eye on the big prize... ... [Read more...]

Seinfeld streak at GitHub: Round Three

October 12, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

Two years ago in this post I reference the Seinfeld Streak used in an even 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 this first chart of GitHub ... [Read more...]

tint 0.0.2: Tint Is Not Tufte

October 7, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

The tint package is now on CRAN. Its name stands for Tint Is Not Tufte and it offers a fresh take on the excellent Tufte-style html (and now also pdf) presentations. As a little teaser, here is what the html variant looks like: and the full under... [Read more...]

RcppGSL 0.3.1

October 4, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

A new version of RcppGSL in now on CRAN and in Debian. The RcppGSL package provides an interface from R to the GNU GSL using our Rcpp package. This release is one that entirely focused on maintenance. CRAN asked us to change on aspect relative to vig... [Read more...]

RcppAnnoy 0.0.8

October 1, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

An new version 0.0.8 of RcppAnnoy, our Rcpp-based R integration of the nifty Annoy library by Erik, is now on CRAN. Annoy is a small, fast, and lightweight C++ template header library for approximate nearest neighbours. This release pulls in a few su... [Read more...]

gcbd 0.2.6

September 28, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

A pure maintenance release 0.2.6 of the gcbd package is now on CRAN. The gcbd proposes a benchmarking framework for LAPACK and BLAS operations (as the library can exchanged in a plug-and-play sense on suitable OSs) and records result in local databas... [Read more...]

RcppCNPy 0.2.6

September 28, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

A new version of the RcppCNPy package arrived on CRAN a few days ago. RcppCNPy provides R with read and write access to NumPy files thanks to the cnpy library by Carl Rogers. This new release reflects all the suggestions and comments I received durin... [Read more...]

tint 0.0.1: Tint Is Not Tufte

September 24, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

A new experimental package is now on the ghrr drat. It is named tint which stands for Tint Is Not Tufte. It provides an alternative for Tufte-style html presentation. I wrote a bit more on the package page and the README in the repo -- so go read thi... [Read more...]
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