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. The FOAAS backen... [Read more...]

A new release 0.4.2 of RProtoBuf is now on CRAN. RProtoBuf provides R bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers ("Protobuf") data encoding library used and released by Google, and deployed as a language and operating-system agnostic protocol by numerous projects. Murray and Jeroen did almost all of the heavy lifting. Many ... [Read more...]

A new release 0.6.6 of the digest package is now on CRAN and in Debian. This release brings the xxHash non-cryptographic hash function by Yann Collet, thanks to several pull requests by Jim Hester. After the upload of version 0.6.5 we uncovered anoth... [Read more...]

A very minor bugfix release of RcppRedis is now on CRAN. The zcount function now returns the correct type. Changes in version 0.1.3 (2014-12-10) Bug fix setting correct return type of zcount Courtesy of CRANberries, there i... [Read more...]

A few weeks ago, RcppAnnoy had its initial release 0.0.2 and subsequent update in release 0.0.3. The latter brought Windows support, thanks to a neat pull request by Qiang Kou. RcppAnnoy wraps the small, fast, and lightweight C++ template header libr... [Read more...]

A new major release of RQuantLib is now on CRAN and getting to Debian. All C++ source files have been rewritten to take advantage of newer Rcpp features. Several Fixed Income functions have been added, or refreshed, thanks to contributions by Michele... [Read more...]

A week ago, Conrad provided another minor release 4.550.0 of Armadillo which has since received one minor correction in 4.550.1.0. As before, I had created a GitHub-only pre-release of his pre-release which was tested against the almost one hundred CRAN dependents of our RcppArmadillo package. This passed fine as usual, and results ... [Read more...]

The CRAN Task View system is a fine project which Achim Zeileis initiated almost a decade ago. It is described in a short R Journal article in Volume 5, Number 1. I have been editor / maintainer of the Finance task view essentially since the very beginning of these CRAN Task Views, and ... [Read more...]

This morning, Rcpp reached another round milestone: 300 packages on CRAN now depend on it (as measured by Depends, Imports and LinkingTo declarations). The graph is on the left depicts the growth of Rcpp usage over time. There are 41 more on BioCond... [Read more...]

What the world needs right now is yet another tutorial on R packages and their creation. Luckily, this last Friday and Saturday, I had the opportunity to present in a workshop organized by Frank DiTraglia at Penn's shiny new Warren Center, and held a... [Read more...]

Earlier today, Josh send the text below to the R-SIG-Finance list, and I updated the R/Finance website, including its Call for Papers page, accordingly. We are once again very excited about our conference, thrilled about the four confirmed keynotes, and hope that many R / Finance users will not only ... [Read more...]

Hours after the initial blog post announcing the first release of the new package RcppAnnoy, Qiang Kou sent us a very nice pull request adding mmap support in Windows. So a new release with Windows support is on now CRAN, and Windows binaries should ... [Read more...]

A new package RcppAnnoy is now on CRAN. It wraps the small, fast, and lightweight C++ template header library Annoy written by Erik Bernhardsson for use at Spotify. While Annoy is setup for use by Python, RcppAnnoy offers the exact same functionality... [Read more...]

A new release of BH, our package providing Boost headers for use by R is now on CRAN. This release was triggered via a request by Ben Goodrich as noted below who asked for Boost Circular Buffer which RStan uses. No other changes were made. Changes ... [Read more...]

A new release of RcppRedis is now on CRAN. It contains additional commands for hashes and sets, all contributed by John Laing and Whit Armstrong. Changes in version 0.1.2 (2014-11-06) New commands execv, hset, hget, sadd, srem, and smembers... [Read more...]

On Friday October 31, 2014, and Saturday November 1, 2014, around thirty-five graduate students and faculty members attended a Software Carpentry workshop. Attendees came primarily from the Economics department and the Kellogg School of Management, w... [Read more...]

A minor bugfix release 0.1.1 of the RPushbullet package (interfacing the neat Pushbullet service) landed on CRAN yesterday morning. It cleans up a small issue related to the ability to transfer files between devices via the Pushbullet service where the ability to select a (non-default) target device has now been restored. ... [Read more...]

A few days ago, Conrad provided another minor release of Armadillo. Once again, I had created a GitHub-only pre-release of his pre-release which was tested against (then) all ninety (!!) CRAN dependents of our RcppArmadillo package, providing a further test for Conrad's code and uploaded RcppArmadillo 0.4.500.0 to CRAN and Debian once ... [Read more...]

You only know two things about Docker. First, it uses Linuxcontainers. Second, the Internet won't shut up about it. -- attributed to Solomon Hykes, Docker CEO So what is Docker? Docker is a relatively new open source application and service, which is seeing interest across a number of areas. It ... [Read more...]

A new maintenance release of littler is available now. The main change are a few updates and extensions to the examples provided along with littler. Several of those continue to make use of the wonderful docopt package by Edwin de Jonge. Carl Boetti... [Read more...]