Per a CRAN email sent to 300+ maintainers, this package (just like many others) was asked to please register its S3 method. So we did, and also overhauled a few other packagaging standards which changed since the previous uploads in December of 2012 ... [Read more...]

Per a CRAN email sent to 300+ maintainers, this package (just like many others) was asked to please register its S3 method. So we did, and also overhauled a few other packagaging standards which changed since the last upload in 2014. No NEWS.Rd file ... [Read more...]

The sixteenth update the 0.12.* series of Rcpp landed on CRAN earlier this evening after a few days of gestation in incoming/ at CRAN. Once again, this release follows the 0.12.0 release from July 2016, the 0.12.1 release in September 2016, the 0.12.... [Read more...]

RcppArmadillo release 0.8.400.0.0, originally prepared and uploaded on February 19, finally hit CRAN today (after having been available via the RcppCore drat repo for a number of days). A corresponding Debian release was prepared and uploaded as wel... [Read more...]

Dependencies are invitations for other people to break your package. -- Josh Ulrich, private communication Welcome to the seventeenth post in the relentlessly random R ravings series of posts, or R4 for short. Dependencies. A truly loaded topic. As R users, we are spoiled. Early in the history of R, ... [Read more...]

A new release of the BH package arrived on CRAN a little earlier: now at release 1.66.0-1. BH provides a sizeable portion of the Boost C++ libraries as a set of template headers for use by R, possibly with Rcpp as well as other packages. This release... [Read more...]

A new minor release 0.3.3.4.0 of RcppEigen hit CRAN earlier today, and just went to Debian as well. It brings Eigen 3.3.4 to R. Yixuan once again did the leg-work of bringing the most recent Eigen release in along with the small set of patches we hav... [Read more...]

Welcome to the sixteenth post in the relatively random R related series of posts, or R4 for short. This one will likely be brief. But it is one post I have been meaning to get out for a little while---yet did not get around to. The meta point I am ... [Read more...]

And yet another boring little RVowpalWabbit package update, now to version 0.0.12, and still in response to the CRAN request of not writing files where we should not (as caught by new tests added by Kurt). I had misinterpreted one flag and actually i... [Read more...]

And yet another small maintenance release, now at version 0.6.15, of the digest package arrived on CRAN and in Debian today. digest creates hash digests of arbitrary R objects (using the 'md5', 'sha-1', 'sha-256', 'sha-512', 'crc32', 'xxhash32', 'xxh... [Read more...]

Another boring little RVowpalWabbit package update to version 0.0.11 came in response to another CRAN request: We were writing temporary output (a cache file for the fit/prediction, to be precise) to a non-temporary directory, which is now being caug... [Read more...]

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Another Rblpapi release, now at version 0.3.8, arrived on CRAN yesterday. Rblpapi provides a direct interface between R and the Bloomberg Terminal via the C++ API provided by Bloomberg Labs (but note that a valid Bloomberg license and installation is... [Read more...]

Welcome to the fifteenth post in the rarely rational R rambling series, or R4 for short. There are two posts I have been meaning to get out for a bit, and hope to get to shortly---but in the meantime we are going start something else. Another longer-running idea I had ... [Read more...]

The fifteenth release in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp landed on CRAN today after just a few days of gestation in incoming/. This release follows the 0.12.0 release from July 2016, the 0.12.1 release in September 2016, the 0.12.2 release in November 2016, the 0.12.3 release in January 2017, the 0.12.4 release in March 2016, the 0.12.5 release in May 2016, the 0.12.6 release ... [Read more...]

Am update of RcppMsgPack got onto CRAN today. It contains a number of enhancements Travers had been working on, as well as one thing CRAN asked us to do in making a suggested package optional. MessagePack itself is an efficient binary serialization f... [Read more...]

Another small maintenance release, version 0.6.14, of the digest package arrived on CRAN and in Debian today. digest creates hash digests of arbitrary R objects (using the 'md5', 'sha-1', 'sha-256', 'crc32', 'xxhash' and 'murmurhash' algorithms) perm... [Read more...]

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A maintenance release of the tint package arrived on CRAN earlier this week. Its name expands from tint is not tufte as the package offers a fresher take on the Tufte-style for html and pdf presentations. A screenshot of the pdf variant is below. ... [Read more...]

A minor maintenance release of the RcppCNPy package arrived on CRAN this week. RcppCNPy provides R with read and write access to NumPy files thanks to the cnpy library by Carl Rogers. There is no code change here. But to process the vignette we rely ... [Read more...]