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The second Armadillo release of the 7.* series came out a few weeks ago: version 7.200.2. And RcppArmadillo version 0.7.200.2.0 is now on CRAN and uploaded to Debian. This followed the usual thorough reverse-dependecy checking of by now over 240 packages using it.
For once, I let it simmer a little preparing only a package update via the GitHub repo without preparing a CRAN upload to lower the update frequency a little. Seeing that Conrad has started to release 7.300.0 tarballs, the time for a (final) 7.200.2 upload was now right.
Just like the previous, it now requires a recent enough compiler. As g++
is so common, we explicitly test for version 4.6 or newer. So if you happen to be on an older RHEL or CentOS release, you may need to get yourself a more modern compiler. R on Windows is now at 4.9.3 which is decent (yet stable) choice; the 4.8 series of g++
will also do. For reference, the current LTS of Ubuntu is at 5.4.0, and we have g++
6.1 available in Debian testing.
This new upstream release adds new indexing helpers, additional return codes on some matrix transformations, increased speed for compound expressions via vectorise
, corrects some LAPACK feature detections (affecting principally complex number use under OS X), and a rewritten sample()
function thanks to James Balamuta.
Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra aiming towards a good balance between speed and ease of use with a syntax deliberately close to a Matlab.
Changes in this release (and the preceding GitHub-only release 0.7.200.1.0 are as follows:
Changes in RcppArmadillo version 0.7.200.2.0 (2016-07-22)
Upgraded to Armadillo release 7.200.2
The sampling extension was rewritten to use Armadillo vector types instead of Rcpp types (PR #101 by James Balamuta)
Changes in RcppArmadillo version 0.7.200.1.0 (2016-06-06)
Upgraded to Armadillo release 7.200.1
added
.index_min()
and.index_max()
expanded
ind2sub()
to handle vectors of indicesexpanded
sub2ind()
to handle matrix of subscriptsexpanded
expmat()
,logmat()
andsqrtmat()
to optionally return a bool indicating successfaster handling of compound expressions by
vectorise()
The
configure
code now (once again) sets the values for the LAPACK feature#define
correctly.
Courtesy of CRANberries, there is a diffstat report. More detailed information is on the RcppArmadillo page. Questions, comments etc should go to the rcpp-devel mailing list off the R-Forge page.
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