A maintenance release (now at version 0.2.5) of my gcbd package (described only in these two posts) is now CRAN. More details about the package are available in the paper which is also included in the gcbd R package. Changes were minimal and driv... [Read more...]

A new Armadillo release 3.930 came out a few days ago, with a very nice set of changes (see below). I rolled this into RcppArmadillo 0.3.930.0. However, one of these changes revealed that R shipped only the standard SVD for complex-valued matrices, and not the more performant divide-and-conquer approach. So in R ... [Read more...]

I spent yesterday at the very enjoyable Big Data Summit held at the University of Illinois Research Park at the edge of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. campus. My (short) presentation was part of a panel session on R and Big Data... [Read more...]

digest version 0.6.4 is now on CRAN and in Debian. This is a pure maintenance release which should help with a build issue affecting users on Solaris. CRANberries provides the usual summary of changes to version 0.6.3. Our package is available... [Read more...]

In early October, I had an opportunity to talk about Rcpp and RcppArmadillo at the Statistical Computing Seminar at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. And then two weeks ago, I had an invitation to talk at the Center for Re... [Read more...]

Right on the heels of release 0.2.1 of RcppCNPy, a new version 0.2.2 is now on CRAN. RcppCNPy uses the CNPY library by Carl Rogers to provide R with easy read and write access to NumPy files. The reason for the new version that I had experimented ... [Read more...]

Version 0.2.1 of RcppCNPy is now on CRAN earlier. This version is a minor upgrade with a few small changes as detailed in the NEWS file: Changes in version 0.2.1 (2013-11-28) Synchronized code with the cnpy repository Added new function to ... [Read more...]

Earlier this year the blog had its tenth anniversary. I had meant to celebrate the occassion by revamping the site and blog a little. Having set up the updated R/Finance site, the Rcpp Gallery and Rcpp sites as well as the much-needed overhaul of th... [Read more...]

Conrad released a bug fix version 3.920.3 for his Armadillo library. So I prepared a new release 0.3.920.3 of RcppArmadillo which is nor on on CRAN and also already in Debian. Note that we skipped interim version .2 which addressed an Atlas linking i... [Read more...]

A new maintenance release 0.10.6 of Rcpp is now on the CRAN network for GNU R; binaries for Debian have been uploaded as well. This version ties up a number of smaller loose ends, but also adds a few new things, particularly John's new exposeClass.... [Read more...]

CRAN is the repository network for R. It is a resounding success with (as of right now) almost 5000 packages, and growth rate which has been estimated (cf John Fox's keynote at useR! a few years ago) to be near 40% per year. We as R community membe... [Read more...]

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

Along with the Rcpp 0.10.5 release yesterday, a new minor release 0.3.920.1 of RcppArmadillo came out. It is based on Conrad's Armadillo 3.920.0 plus a minor fix, and uses some of the new Rcpp features. Both package is now on CRAN and also in Debian.... [Read more...]

A new version of Rcpp is now on the CRAN network for GNU R; binaries for Debian have been uploaded as well. Once more, this release brings a large number of exciting changes to Rcpp. Some concern usability, some bring new features, some increase pe... [Read more...]

Two months to the day after the previous 0.3.0 release of RProtoBuf, we are happy to announce a maintenance release 0.3.1 which has now arrived on CRAN. RProtoBuf provides GNU R bindings for the Google Protobuf data encoding library used and release... [Read more...]

A couple of days ago, I gave a talk to the Chicago R Users Group which is run ever-so-smoothly by Paul Teetor and Chase Carpenter. The talk provided a brief introduction to Rcpp for R and C++ integration. Slides are now up on my talks / presentation... [Read more...]

A couple of days ago, I gave a talk to the Chicago R Users Group which is run ever-so-smoothly by Paul Teetor and Chase Carpenter. The talk provided a brief introduction to Rcpp for R and C++ integration. Slides are now up on my talks / presentation... [Read more...]

A new minor release 3.910.0 of Armadillo came out a few days ago. A new RcppArmadillo release 0.3.910.0 was provided rightaway, and after a brief back-and-forth with CRAN (mostly having to do with the non-standard vignette corresponding to our CSD... [Read more...]

A minor maintenance release of inline is now on CRAN, and has just been already included in Debian. This release contains a patch kindly contributed by Mikhail Umorin which fixes the of \code{cfunction} with lists of signatures and function bodies. ... [Read more...]

A bug-fix release 3.900.7 of Armadillo was provided by Conrad a few days ago. It has been rolled into a new RcppArmadillo release 0.3.900.7 which, after a brief delay, is now on CRAN and in Debian. The main bug fix is a change in the in-place vers... [Read more...]