A new release of RProtoBuf -- now at version 0.3.0 -- arrived earlier on CRAN. RProtoBuf provides GNU R bindings for the Google Protobuf data encoding library used and released by Google. Murray added a lot of new features which merited the incre... [Read more...]

With the demise of Google Reader, many of us have scrambled to find alternatives which cover many/most of the features we were used to. For me, synchronised access from web and mobile counts quite high, and I want the (Android) mobile experience to b... [Read more...]

The Sydney Users of R Forum (SURF) were kind enough to host me two days (well, three with the traveling ...) ago for an hour-long talk on Rcpp. Apparently, it set a new attendance record for this R user group. My thanks to Louise and Eugene for hosti... [Read more...]

A new version of Rcpp is now on the CRAN network for GNU R; binaries for Debian have been uploaded as well. This release brings a fairly large number of fixes and improvements across a number of Rcpp features, see below for the detailed list. We a... [Read more...]

The Sydney Users of R Forum (SURF) will be hosting me for a talk on July 10. The focus will be Rcpp for R and C++ integration, and the intent is to have this be really applied with lots of motivating examples. Organizers Louise and Eugene were able... [Read more...]

Another maintenance release of inline is now on CRAN and in already included in Debian. This release was triggered by a change in the development version of R which removed an argument to package.skeleton(). The complete NEWS entry is below. Chan... [Read more...]

My book about Rcpp (and its R and C++ integration) is now available from Springer. Amazon still lists it as not-yet-released; I expect this to change in the next few days. [Read more...]

A Armadillo release 3.900.0 was provided by Conrad yesterday. It has been rolled into a new RcppArmadillo release 0.3.900.0 which is now on CRAN and in Debian. It has a number of nice changes, mostly on the performance side of things (see below) an... [Read more...]

The fifth internation R/Finance conference was held last weekend. As one of the founding co-organizers, I may well be accussed of a little bias, but we think we once again pulled off a very nice and successful weekend-long event. Participants had ki... [Read more...]

Conrad rolled up a new Armadillo release 3.820 (following two minor fix release in the 0.3.810 series of which we packaged the one that was relevant for us). This new version is now out in a release 0.3.820 of RcppArmadillo which is already on CRAN a... [Read more...]

A couple of days ago, I had an opportunity to give a guest lecture on our Rcpp package for R and C++ integration. This was in CMSC 12300 Computer Science with Applications-3 in the Department of Computer Science at University of Chicago. The course i... [Read more...]

A new Armadillo release 3.810.0 by Conrad appeared yesterday, and was wrapped up in a new release 0.3.810.0 of RcppArmadillo. Upstream changes bring FFT support as well as more Sparse matrix constructors, and we have an improvement to the sample() fu... [Read more...]

The annoucement below just went to the R-SIG-Finance list. More information is as usual at the R / Finance page: Now open for registrations: R / Finance 2013: Applied Finance with R May 17 and 18, 2013 Chicago, IL, USA The registration for R/Fin... [Read more...]

On Saturday I had the opportunity to teach another one-day master class on Rcpp. The class had been organized by Jared Lander, and organized very well I might add. The weekend started with a slight disappointment. I had taken Friday off, and hoped t... [Read more...]

Conrad released a first bug-fix release 3.800.1 of Armadillo earlier today. This has been wrapped up in release 0.3.800.1 of RcppArmadillo as usual. This release also contains a very nice function sample() (contributed by Christian Gunning) which p... [Read more...]

A new Armadillo version 3.800.0 is now out. Conrad picked a new numbering scheme to coincide with the relicensing from LGPL to MPL 2.0. The new version 0.3.800.0 of the corresponding RcppArmadillo package (which still uses GPL 2 or later) is now on ... [Read more...]

A maintenance release of inline is now on CRAN, and is being uploaded to Debian. The release fixes two minor bugs kindly reported by users. As the two previous releases appear to not have been announced here, their NEWS entries are included as well. ... [Read more...]

Two papers got published recently. The first one is Bates and Eddelbuettel (2013). It is titled Fast and Elegant Numerical Linear Algebra Using the RcppEigen Package, and provides a pretty thorough introduction to our RcppEigen package which uses Rcpp to provide access to the Eigen C++ template library from GNU R. ... [Read more...]

A new Armadillo version 3.6.3 came out this morning, and the corresponding RcppArmadillo version is now on CRAN. Changes are incremental: Changes in RcppArmadillo version 0.3.6.3 (2013-02-20) Upgraded to Armadillo release Version 3.6.3 ... [Read more...]

A new Rcpp master class is scheduled for March 9 in New York. The format will an updated version of the one-day workshops I have given at the University of Rochester in 2010, in San Franciso in 2011 (organised by Revolution Analytics) and at the UseR... [Read more...]