A new version of RcppGSL is now on CRAN. This package provides an interface from R to the GNU GSL using our Rcpp package. This follows on the heels on the recent RcppGSL 0.2.3 release and extends the excellent point made by Qiang Kou in a contributed... [Read more...]

A new version of RcppAnnoy is now on CRAN. RcppAnnoy wraps the small, fast, and lightweight C++ template header library Annoy written by Erik Bernhardsson for use at Spotify. RcppAnnoy uses Rcpp Modules to offer the exact same functionality as the Py... [Read more...]

Every now and then we get reports from CRAN about our packages failing a test there. A challenging one concerns UBSAN, or Undefined Behaviour Sanitizer. For background on UBSAN, see this RedHat blog post for gcc and this one from LLVM about clang. I had written briefly about this before ... [Read more...]

A new version of RcppGSL is now on CRAN today. This package provides an interface from R to the GNU GSL using our Rcpp. Similar to the recent RcppClassic release, this update was triggered by the CRAN maintainers desire to keep the Makefile free of G... [Read more...]

A brand new and shiny version of rfoaas is now on CRAN. The rfoaas package provides an interface for R to the most excellent FOAAS service--which provides a modern, scalable and RESTful web service for the frequent need to tell someone to f$#@ off. T... [Read more...]

A maintenance release of RcppClassic, now at version 0.9.6, went out to CRAN today. This package provides a maintained version of the otherwise deprecated first Rcpp API; no new projects should use it. No changes were in user-facing code. The Makevar... [Read more...]

A new release of my random package for truly (hardware-based) random numbers as provided by random.org is now on CRAN. The main change is a switch to the curl() function from the eponymous package by Jeroen Ooms. This was caused by random.org now usi... [Read more...]

A new release of the RcppCNPy package is now on CRAN. This release mostly solidifies and fixes things. Support for saving integer objects, which was expanded in release 0.2.3, was not entirely correct. Operations on big-endian systems were not up to ... [Read more...]

Right on the heels of yesterday's BH release 1.55.0-2 bringing Boost Fusion, we now have release 1.55.0-3 bringing Boost Graph. To recap, BH is our CRAN package providing (a large part of the) Boost C++ libraries as a set of template headers for use ... [Read more...]

A new release of BH, our package providing (a large part of the) Boost C++ libraries as a set of template headers for use by R, is now on CRAN. This is a relatively minor change which expands the set of Boost libraries included in the package to Boos... [Read more...]

Release 0.6.8 of digest package is now on CRAN and will get to Debian shortly. This release opens the door to also providing the digest functionality at the C level to other R packages. Wush Wu is going to use the murmurHash C implementation in his r... [Read more...]

A new version of rfoaas is now on CRAN. The rfoaas package provides an interface for R to the most excellent FOAAS service--which provides a modern, scalable and RESTful web service for the frequent need to tell someone to eff off. This version align... [Read more...]

Conrad produced another minor release 4.600 of Armadillo. As before, I had created a GitHub-only pre-release(s) of his pre-release(s), and tested a pre-release as well as the actual release against the now over one hundred CRAN dependents of our RcppArmadillo package. The tests passed fine as usual with less ... [Read more...]

A new version of rfoaas was prepared for CRAN, but refused on the grounds of having been updated within 24 hours. Oh well. To recap, the rfoaas package provides an interface for R to the most excellent FOAAS service -- which provides a modern, scalable and RESTful web service for the ... [Read more...]

A new version of rfoaas is now on CRAN. The rfoaas package provides an interface for R to the most excellent FOAAS service -- which provides a modern, scalable and RESTful web service for the frequent need to tell someone to eff off. This is minor up... [Read more...]

A new release of RcppEigen is now on CRAN, and will get to Debian shortly. This is thanks to a fabulous pull request by Yixuan Qiu who single-handedly managed to upgrade to the new minor release of Eigen -- after having expanded the unit tests a few ... [Read more...]

A new release of BH, our package providing (a large part of the) Boost C++ libraries as a set of template headers for use by R, is now on CRAN. There are two changes. First, we upgraded to Boost 1.55. While Boost 1.57 is now current, I am playing it ... [Read more...]

Attention: rant coming. You have been warned, and may want to tune out now. So the top of my Twitter timeline just had a re-tweet posting to this marvel on the state of Julia. I should have known better than to glance at it as it comes from someone providing (... [Read more...]

Release 0.6.7 of digest package is now on CRAN and in Debian. Jim Hester was at it again and added murmurHash. I cleaned up several sets of pedantic warnings in some of the source files, updated the test reference out, and that forms version 0.6.7. C... [Read more...]

Something happened a little while ago which we did not have time to commensurate properly. Our Rocker image for R is now the official R image for Docker itself. So getting R (via Docker) is now as simple as saying docker pull r-base. This particular... [Read more...]