Early last year, I referred to a Seinfeld Streak in a blog post referring to almost two months of updates to the Rcpp Gallery. This is sometimes called Jerry Seinfeld's secret to productivity: Just keep at it. Don't break the streak. I now have different streak: Now we'll see how ... [Read more...]

A new release 0.1.0 of the RPushbullet package (interfacing the neat Pushbullet service) landed on CRAN today. It brings a number of goodies relative to the first release 0.0.2 of a few months ago: pushing of files is now supported thanks to a nice ... [Read more...]

A new release 0.11.3 of Rcpp is now on the CRAN network for GNU R, and an updated Debian package has been uploaded too. Rcpp has become the most popular way of enhancing GNU R with C++ code. As of today, 273 packages on CRAN depend on Rcpp for making... [Read more...]

Earlier this evening I gave a short talk about R and Docker at the September Meetup of the Docker Chicago group. Thanks to Karl Grzeszczak for setting the meeting, and for providing a pretty thorough intro talk regarding CoreOS and Docker. My slides... [Read more...]

Continuing with his standard pace of approximately one new version per month, Conrad released a new minor release of Armadillo a few days ago. As before, I had created a GitHub-only pre-release which was tested against all eighty-seven (!!) CRAN dependents of our RcppArmadillo package and then uploaded RcppArmadillo 0.4.450.0 to CRAN. ... [Read more...]

A brown bag release 0.1.2 of pkgKitten is now on CRAN, following yesterday's 0.1.1 upload Next time I'll try to remember that when I have parameters name and path, it won't work so well to call them as path and name ... Changes in version 0.1.2 (20... [Read more...]

A maintenance release 0.1.1 of pkgKitten is now on CRAN. It has only one small change: the function playWithPerPackageHelpPage() was factored out of the main function kitten() as I happened to be needing something just like playWithPerPackageHelpPage... [Read more...]

With yesterday's announcement of littler 0.2.0, I kept thinking about a few not-so-frequently-asked but recurring questions about littler. And an obvious one if of course the relationship to Rscript. As we have pointed out before, littler preceded Rscript. Now, with Rscript being present in every R installation, it is of course ... [Read more...]

We are happy to announce a new release of littler. A few minor things have changes since the last release: A few new examples were added or updated, including use of the fabulous new docopt package by Edwin de Jonge which makes command-... [Read more...]

Another small new release of our BH package providing Boost headers for use by R is now on CRAN. This one brings a one-file change: the file any.hpp comprising the Boost.Any library --- as requested by a fellow package maintainer needing it for a pe... [Read more...]

A new upstream release of the Eigen C++ template library for linear algebra was released a few days ago. And Yixuan Qiu did some really nice work rolling this into a new RcppEigen released and then sent me a nice pull requent. The new version is now... [Read more...]

After two pre-releases in the last few days, Conrad finalised a new Armadillo version 4.400 today. I had kept up with the pre-releases, tested twice against all eighty (!!) CRAN dependents of RcppArmadillo and have hence uploaded RcppArmadillo 0.4.... [Read more...]

Rcpp reached a nice round milestone yesterday: 250 packages on CRAN now depend on it (as measured by Depends, Imports and LinkingTo declarations). The graph is on the left depi... [Read more...]

A new release of our BH package providing Boost headers for use by R is now on the CRAN mirrors. This release is the third based on Boost 1.54.0. At the request of the maintainer of the recent added RcppMLPACK package, it adds the Boost.Heap l... [Read more...]

A new package sanitizers is now on CRAN. It provides test cases for Address Sanitizers, and Undefined Behaviour Sanitizers. These are two recent features of both g++ and clang++, and described in the Checking Memory Access section of the Writing R Ex... [Read more...]

A common theme over the last few decades was that we could afford to simply sit back and let computer (hardware) engineers take care of increases in computing speed thanks to Moore's law. That same line of thought now frequently points out that we ar... [Read more...]

While I was out at the (immensely impressive and equally enjoyable) useR! 2014 conference at UCLA, Conrad provided a bug-fix release 4.320 of Armadillo, the nifty templated C++ library for linear algebra. I quickly rolled that into RcppArmadillo rel... [Read more...]

A new package pkgKitten is now on CRAN in its infant version 0.1.0. It does only one thing: create R packages that do not suck. Or at least not as much as those created by the (R default) function package.skeleton() which creates files which the v... [Read more...]

RcppRedis, another new package of mine, appeared on CRAN a few weeks ago just in time for our annual R/Finance conference. And as of today, we also have Windows binaries thanks to generous help from John Buonagurio who help building the required 32-... [Read more...]

A new minor release 0.11.2 of Rcpp is now on the CRAN network for GNU R, and binaries for Debian have also been uploaded. The release smoothes a few edges on both the Rcpp side itself, as well as on the interaction between Rcpp and R which since... [Read more...]