RQuantLib 0.4.11: More polish

New year, new RQuantLib! A new release 0.4.11 of RQuantLib arrived overnight on CRAN; and a Debian upload will follow shortly.

QuantLib is a very comprehensice free/open-source library for quantitative finance; RQuantLib connects it to the R environment and language.

This version does three new things. First, we fixed an oversight on our end and now allow a null calendar (as the C++ API). Second, the package switched to tinytest as a few of my other packages have done, allowing for very flexible testing during development and deployment—three cheers for easily testing installed packages too. Third, and per a kind nag from Kurt Hornik I updated a few calls which the current QuantLib 1.17 marks as deprecated. That lead to a compile issue with 1.16 so the change is conditional in one part. The complete set of changes is listed below:

Changes in RQuantLib version 0.4.11 (2020-01-15)

• Changes in RQuantLib code:

  • The ‘Null’ calendar without weekends or holidays is now recognized.

  • The package now uses tinytest for unit tests (Dirk in #140).

  • Calls deprecated-in-QuantLib 1.17 were updated (Dirk in #144).

Courtesy of CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report for the this release. As always, more detailed information is on the RQuantLib page. Questions, comments etc should go to the new rquantlib-devel mailing list. Issue tickets can be filed at the GitHub repo.

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