A new release of BH, our package providing (a large part of the) Boost C++ libraries as a set of template headers for use by R, is now on CRAN.

There are two changes. First, we upgraded to Boost 1.55. While Boost 1.57 is now current, I am playing it somewhat safe and conservative here by relying on what is the current version in Debian (and Ubuntu). I even started from the Debian tarball. This ensures we include nothing not in accordance with the Debian Free Software Guidelines (as they are a good proxy for what is acceptable to CRAN). The second change was the addition of Boost.Geometry as requested in issue ticket 5.

This may be a good time to recall that best way to get in touch for desired additions in BH are the mailing list or the issue tracker at the GitHub repo.

A brief summary of changes from the NEWS file (which we failed to update for the release; the text below is however now in the repo):

Changes in version 1.55.0-1 (2014-12-21)

• Upgraded to Boost 1.55 once again from the Debian tarball at https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/boost1.55

• Added Boost Geometry requested in GH ticket #5 by ‘teramonagi’

Courtesy of CRANberries, there is also a (very long!) diffstat report for the most recent release.

Comments and suggestions are welcome via the mailing list or the issue tracker at the GitHubGitHub repo.

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