Articles by Thinking inside the box

Rcpp 0.12.4: And another one

March 26, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

The fourth update in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp has now arrived on the CRAN network for GNU R, and has just been pushed to Debian as well. This follows four days of idleness in the incoming/ directory: Word is that the tireless CRAN maintainers were traveling and only covering simpler ... [Read more...]

RcppArmadillo 0.6.600.4.0

March 16, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

Conrad announced a new Armadillo release 6.600.4 yesterday. This followed some work we had done for thorough pre-release checking with reverse dependencies tests for the over 200 CRAN packages using it and resulted in one more squashed bug. This rel... [Read more...]

Rblpapi 0.3.3

March 15, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

A new release of Rblpapi is now on CRAN. It 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 marks the fourth release since the package first appeared on ... [Read more...]

x13binary 0.1.2

March 14, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

A new version of x13binary is now on CRAN. It updates the underlying X-13ARIMA-SEATS binary to build 1.1.26 which was released recently by the US Census Bureau. Our x13binary package takes the pain out of installing this, and provides it to the seaso... [Read more...]

gtrendsR 1.3.3

March 8, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

A very nice new update to the gtrendsR package by Philippe and myself is now avilable via CRAN. I had only blogged about the initial 1.3.0 release, and we have added a whole slew of new features and fixes. Philippe rewrote a lot of the parsing to make it more robust ...
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gunsales 0.1.1

March 5, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

A minor update to our recently released gunsales package is now on the CRAN network. The changes are completely internal and deal with automagic discovery of the X-13ARIMA-SEATS program via our associated x13binary package. More precisely, we let Sol... [Read more...]

RcppEigen 0.3.2.8.1

March 1, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

A good week after the update to Eigen 3.2.8 in our RcppEigen package 0.3.2.8.0, we have another (local) update with RcppEigen 0.3.2.8.1 which should fix another UBSAN issue. This new version in now on CRAN and in Debian. Big thanks once again to Yixu... [Read more...]

New CRAN package gunsales

February 28, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

This is based on joint work with Gregor Aisch and Josh Keller of the New York Times. A new package gunsales is now on the CRAN network for R. It is based the NYTimes/gunsales repository underlying the excellent New York Times visualizations, first published first in December 2015 and updated ...
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RcppEigen 0.3.2.8.0

February 23, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

Another minor release of RcppEigen is on CRAN and getting into Debian. The main focus is an upgrade to the recent 3.2.7 release of Eigen which should address another UBSAN issue. And once again Yixuan Qiu did all the heavy lifting. The NEWS file entr... [Read more...]

RcppExamples 0.1.7

January 24, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

After an usually long hiatus, the RcppExamples package has been updated once more: a new version 0.1.7 is now on CRAN. The RcppExamples provides a handful of short examples detailing by concrete working examples how to set up basic R data structures ... [Read more...]

RcppEigen 0.3.2.7.0

January 22, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

A new minor release of RcppEigen is now on CRAN and in Debian. It primarily upgrades to the recent 3.2.7 release of Eigen -- thanks once again to fine work by Yixuan Qiu. We also have one additonal PR by Alexey Stukalow who ensured that the fastLm() ... [Read more...]

RcppCCTZ 0.0.3

January 22, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

Bradley White from the upstream CCTZ team prepared some more changes in CCTZ itself -- so a new RcppCCTZ version got to CRAN the other day catching up with these changes. CCTZ is a C++ library for translating between absolute and civil times using th... [Read more...]

Rcpp 0.12.3: Keep rollin’

January 10, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

The third update in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp arrived on the CRAN network for GNU R earlier today, and has been pushed to Debian. It follows the 0.12.0 release from late July, the 0.12.1 release in September, and the 0.12.2 release in November making... [Read more...]

Rcpp 0.12.2: Keep rollin’

January 10, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

The third update in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp arrived on the CRAN network for GNU R earlier today, and has been pushed to Debian. It follows the 0.12.0 release from late July, the 0.12.1 release in September, and the 0.12.2 release in November making... [Read more...]

digest 0.6.9

January 8, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

A new release, now at version number 0.6.9, of the digest package is now on CRAN. I also just prepared the Debian upload. This release is very large part the work of Thierry Onkelinx who added stable sha1 support in a new function sha1(). Here, stabl... [Read more...]

AsioHeaders 1.11.0-1

January 7, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

Making it easier to use C++ in R has been a really nice and rewarding side effect of the work on Rcpp. One really good idea came from something Jay Emerson, Michael Kane and had I kicked about for way too long: shipping Boost headers for easier use by R ... [Read more...]

BH 1.60.0-1

December 28, 2015 | Thinking inside the box

A new release of BH is now on CRAN. BH provides a large part of the Boost C++ libraries as a set of template headers for use by R, possibly with Rcpp as well as other packages. This release both upgrades the version of Boost to the recently-released ... [Read more...]
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