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 library Annoy written by Erik Bernhardsson for use at Spotify. RcppAnnoy uses Rcpp Modules to offer the exact same functionality as the Python module wrapped around Annoy.

In the 0.0.3 release, I overlooked one thing: that with builds on Windows, we would also get builds against what CRAN calls R-oldrel: the previous release, which cannot turn on C++11 via the simple CXX_STD = CXX11 declaration in src/Makevars (and which we need because use of Boost brings in long long which R can only cope with under C++11 …).

So this new release 0.0.4 does nothing more than add a constraint in a Depends: R (>= 3.1.0) to avoid builds not being able to turn on C++11.

Courtesy of CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report for this release. More detailed information is on the RcppAnnoy page page.

This post by Dirk Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box blog. Please report excessive re-aggregation in third-party for-profit settings.