Release 0.3.8 of RcppGSL is now getting onto CRAN. The RcppGSL package provides an interface from R to the GNU GSL using the Rcpp package.

Peter Carbonetto let us know in issue #25 that the included example now showed linker errors on (everybody’s favourite CRAN platform) Slowlaris. Kidding aside, the added compiler variety really has benefits because we were indeed missing a good handful or two of inline statements in the headers—which our good friends g++ and clang++ apparently let us get away with. This has been fixed, and a little bit of the usual package polish and cleanup has been added; see the list of detailed changes below.

Changes in version 0.3.8 (2020-06-21)

• A few missing inline statements were added to the headers fixing a (genuine) error that was seen only on Solaris (Dirk).

• The nice colNorm example is now in a file by itself, the previous versions are off in a new file colNorm_old.cpp (Dirk).

• The README.me now sports two new badges (Dirk).

• Travis CI was updated to ‘bionic’ and R 4.0 (Dirk).

Special thanks also to CRAN for a super-smooth and fully automated processing of a package with both compiled code and two handful of reverse dependencies.

Courtesy of CRANberries, a summary of changes to the most recent release is also available.

More information is on the RcppGSL page. Questions, comments etc should go to the issue tickets at the GitHub repo.

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