The inline package facilitates writing code in-line in simple string expressions or short files. The package is mature and in maintenance mode: Rcpp used it greatly for several years but then moved on to Rcpp Attributes so we have a much limited need... [Read more...]

Several weeks ago we introduced the drat package. Its name stands for drat R Archive Template, and it helps with easy-to-create and easy-to-use repositories for R packages. Two early blog posts describe drat: First Steps Towards Lightweight Repositor... [Read more...]

The annoucement below just went to the R-SIG-Finance list. More information is as usual at the R / Finance page. Registration for R/Finance 2015 is now open! The conference will take place on May 29 and 30, at UIC in Chicago. Building on the success of the previous conferences in 2009-2014, we expect ... [Read more...]

A new minor release of littler is available now. It adds or extends a number of things: added support for drat by adding a new example installDrat.r; the install.r, install2.r and check.r scripts now use getOption("repos") to set the default repos; this works well with ... [Read more...]

Editorial Note: The following post was kindly contributed by Steven Pav. Why Drat? After playing around with drat for a few days now, my impressions of it are best captured by Dirk's quote: It just works. Demo To get some idea of what I mean by this, suppose you are ... [Read more...]

The new release 0.11.5 of Rcpp just reached the CRAN network for GNU R, and a Debian package has also been be uploaded. Rcpp has become the most popular way of enhancing GNU R with C++ code. As of today, 345 packages on CRAN depend on Rcpp for making analyses go faster ... [Read more...]

A few weeks ago we introduced the drat package. Its name stands for drat R Archive Template, and it helps with easy-to-create and easy-to-use repositories for R packages. Two early blog posts describe drat: First Steps Towards Lightweight Repositorie... [Read more...]

A new release of RcppEigen is now on CRAN and in Debian. It synchronizes the Eigen code with the 3.2.4 upstream release, and updates the RcppEigen.package.skeleton() package creation helper to use the kitten() function from pkgKitten for enhanced pac... [Read more...]

A new Armadillo release 4.650.1 was released by Conrad a few days ago. 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. It turned out that this release had ... [Read more...]

Introduction The drat package was released earlier this month, and described in a first blog post. I received some helpful feedback about what works and what doesn't. For example, Jenny Bryan pointed out that I was not making a clear enough distinction between the role of using drat to publish ... [Read more...]

Over the last few days I put together a new package RcppAPT which interfaces the C++ library behind the awesome apt, apt-get, apt-cache, ... commands and their GUI-based brethren. The package currently implements two functions which permit search for package information via a regular expression, as well as a (vectorised) package ... [Read more...]

A new releases of the RPushbullet package (interfacing the neat Pushbullet service) arrived on CRAN today. It brings several weeks of extensions, corrections and cleanups---with key contributions by Mike Birdgeneau and Henrik Bengtsson. RPushbullet n... [Read more...]

A brand new version of rfoaas is now on CRAN. It shadows the 0.1.3 release of FOAAS just how an earlier 0.1.2 had done (but there was something not quite right at the server backend which we coded around with an interim release 0.1.2.1; neither one of these was ever released to CRAN). ... [Read more...]

Now that drat is on CRAN and I got a bit of feedback (or typo corrections) in three issue tickets, I thought I could show how to quickly post such an interim version in a drat repository. Now, I obviously already have a checkout of drat. If you, dear reader, ... [Read more...]

A new package of mine just got to CRAN in its very first version 0.0.1: drat. Its name stands for drat R Archive Template, and an introduction is provided at the drat page, the GitHub repository, and below. drat builds on a core strength of R: the ability to query multiple ... [Read more...]

The new package RcppStreams arrived on CRAN on Saturday. RcppStreams brings the excellent Streamulus C++ template library for event stream processing to R. Streamulus, written by Irit Katriel, uses very clever template meta-programming (via Boost Fu... [Read more...]

A new minor release of littler is available now. Several examples were added or extended: a new script check.r to check a source tarball with R CMD check after loading required packages first (and a good use case was given in the recent UBSAN testi... [Read more...]

A new release 0.2.12 of RInside is now on CRAN. 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 the Rcpp integration package. This rele... [Read more...]

Conrad put up a maintenance release 4.600.4 of Armadillo a few days ago. As in the past, we tested this with number of pre-releases and test builds against the now over one hundred CRAN dependents of our RcppArmadillo package. The tests passed fine as usual, and results are as always in ... [Read more...]

A new release 0.11.4 of Rcpp is now on the CRAN network for GNU R, and an updated Debian package will be uploaded in due course. Rcpp has become the most popular way of enhancing GNU R with C++ code. As of today, 323 packages on CRAN depend on Rcpp for making ... [Read more...]