A minor update version 0.3.4 of RcppGSL is now on CRAN. It contains an improved Windows build system (thanks, Jeroen!) and updates the C++ headers by removing dynamic exception specifications which C++11 frowns upon, and the compilers lets us know th... [Read more...]

Am maintenance release of RcppMsgPack got onto CRAN this afternoon. It contains a single static_cast fix to address a warning which g++-8.1 shows whereas older compilers remained silent---and CRAN asked us to address this. MessagePack itself is an ef... [Read more...]

RcppArmadillo release 0.8.500.0, originally prepared and uploaded on April 21, has hit CRAN today (after having already been available via the RcppCore drat repo). A corresponding Debian release will be prepared as well. This RcppArmadillo release c... [Read more...]

Welcome to the eighteenth post in the rarely riveting R ramblings series of posts, or R4 for short. The Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL) is well-know high(er) performance math library tailored for Intel CPUs offering best-in-class numerical performance on a number of low-level operations (BLAS, LAPACK, ...). They are not ... [Read more...]

A new release of the tint package just arrived on CRAN. Its name expands from tint is not tufte as the package offers a fresher take on the Tufte-style for html and pdf presentations. This version adds support for the tufte-book latex style. The pack... [Read more...]

Another minor maintenance release of the RcppCNPy package arrived on CRAN this evening. RcppCNPy provides R with read and write access to NumPy files thanks to the cnpy library by Carl Rogers. There is only small code change: a path is now checked be... [Read more...]

A new release, now at 0.2.1, of the RcppSMC package arrived on CRAN earlier this afternoon (and once again as a very quick pretest-publish within minutes of submission). RcppSMC provides Rcpp-based bindings to R for the Sequential Monte Carlo Templat... [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 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...]