A new bug-fix / maintenance release of RcppEigen is now on CRAN. RcppEigen brings the Eigen C++ template library for linear algebra to R. This release updates the RcppEigen.package.skeleton() function for a needed change in R, updates and extends ... [Read more...]

A new minor upstream release 4.100 of the Armadillo templated C++ library for linear algebra was finalised by Conrad yesterday. I rolled up the corresponding RcppArmadillo release 0.4.100.0 which is now on CRAN and will go to Debian shortly. Cha... [Read more...]

A new maintenance release of the RcppBDT package is now on CRAN. There is no new code in this; it mainly accomodates a request by CRAN to standardize the \code{Imports:} and \code{Depends:} relationships in the \code{DESCRIPTION} file. We also updated... [Read more...]

A pure maintenance release of RDieHarder is now on CRAN. RDieHarder provides R bindings for the DieHarder battery of tests for random number generators by Brown et al. This release contains no new code, but the vignette needed to be moved from inst... [Read more...]

A new minor release of RcppArmadillo is now on CRAN and in Debian. RcppArmadillo brings the Armadillo templated C++ library for linear algebra to R by means of Rcpp. This release contains both a few minor bugfixes from the 4.000 branch of Armadillo and some enhancements in RcppArmadillo itself that are ... [Read more...]

A new release 0.2.11 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 R and C++ integration package... [Read more...]

Late last week, and just before leaving to participate in this crazy thing, I managed to get a new version of RcppSMC onto CRAN. RcppSMC combines the SMCTC template classes for Sequential Monte Carlo and Particle Filters (Johansen, 2009, JSS) with t... [Read more...]

A new major release 0.11.0 of Rcpp is now on the CRAN network for GNU R and binaries for Debian have been uploaded as well. Before you read on, please note that this release will most likely require a reinstallation of all your packages using Rcpp... [Read more...]

A new minor / maintenance release RQuantLib 0.3.11 is now on CRAN and in Debian. Like the RcppClassic upload two days ago and the RcppZiggurat and RcppEigen uploads yesterday, this release was motivated at least in part by an upcoming Rcpp releas... [Read more...]

A new maintenance release of RcppZiggurat is now on CRAN. And just like yesterday's RcppClassic upload, this is motivated chiefly by some minor caretaking for an upcoming Rcpp release -- hopefully soon, and with more details to follow. This release... [Read more...]

A maintenance release of RcppClassic, now at version 0.9.5, went out to CRAN today. Nothing changed in user-facing code. The build was triggered by a change in an upcoming Rcpp release (more about that another time), and a few minor updates were nee... [Read more...]

A bug fix release of Armadillo came out and was turned into a new RcppArmadillo release which is now on CRAN and will go shortly to Debian. The complete list of changes is below. Changes in RcppArmadillo version 0.4.000.2 (2014-01-21) Up... [Read more...]

A new major release 0.4.0 of RProtoBuf, is now on CRAN. RProtoBuf provides GNU 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 proto... [Read more...]

A new major release 4.000 of Armadillo came out out yesterday morning. This is a new stable release by Conrad with a new major number, and it brings a few nice changes as detailed below. I rolled up RcppArmadillo version 0.400 yesterday morning, an... [Read more...]

A new release of the BH package is now on CRAN and its mirrors. BH provides (a sizeable subset of) the Boost library for C++, particularly the (large) parts delivered as pure template headers not requiring linking. See the BH page for more details... [Read more...]

Over the last few weeks I have been working on getting the Ziggurat normal random number generator updated and available in R. The Ziggurat generator provides a pretty unique combination of speed and good statistical properties for (standard) normal r... [Read more...]

In a recent email to the Rcpp and lme4 mailing lists, Doug Bates announced that was turning away from R, Rcpp, lme4 and hence also RcppEigen for which he had been both the primary author and maintainer. This is huge loss for the R community. I have... [Read more...]

A new version 0.3.2 of RProtoBuf, is now on CRAN. RProtoBuf provides GNU R bindings for the Google Protobuf data encoding library used and released by Google. As for the last few releases, Murray took charge of most changes. The NEWS file entry f... [Read more...]

A maintenance release (now at version 0.1.2) of my RcppDE package (previously described in these two posts) is now CRAN. More details about the package are available in the vignette also included in the RcppDE R package. Changes were minimal and dr... [Read more...]

A maintenance release of my random package for truly (hardware-based) random numbers (pulled from random.org) is now on CRAN. It's been a while since previous releases. The package is described in a detailed vignette as well as in a essay by Mads Haa... [Read more...]