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...]

Welcome to the fourteenth post in the rationally rambling R rants series, or R4 for short. The last two posts were concerned with faster installation. First, we showed how ccache can speed up (re-)installation. This was followed by a second post on faster installation via binaries. This last post ... [Read more...]

The fourth release of littler as a CRAN package is now available, following in the now more than ten-year history as a package started by Jeff in 2006, and joined by me a few weeks later. littler is the first command-line interface for R and predates Rscript. In my very biased ... [Read more...]

A new version of drat just arrived on CRAN as another no-human-can-delay-this automatic upgrade directly from the CRAN prechecks (though I did need a manual reminder from Uwe to remove a now stale drat repo URL -- bad @hrbrmstr -- from the README in... [Read more...]

A small maintenance release, version 0.6.13, of the digest package arrived on CRAN and in Debian yesterday. digest creates hash digests of arbitrary R objects (using the 'md5', 'sha-1', 'sha-256', 'crc32', 'xxhash' and 'murmurhash' algorithms) permit... [Read more...]

Welcome to the thirteenth post in the ridiculously rapid R recommendation series, or R4 for short. A few days ago we riffed on faster installation thanks to ccache. Today we show another way to get equally drastic gains for some (if not most) packages. In a nutshell, there are two ... [Read more...]

A boring little RVowpalWabbit package update to version 0.0.10 came in response to another CRAN request: We were switching directories to run tests (or examples) which is now discouraged, so we no longer do this as it turns that we can of course refe... [Read more...]

Welcome to the twelveth post in the randomly relevant R recommendations series, or R4 for short. This post will insert a short diversion into what was planned as a sequence of posts on faster installations that started recently with this post but we will resume to it very shortly (for ... [Read more...]

Another RcppArmadillo release hit CRAN today. Since our last 0.8.100.1.0 release in October, Conrad kept busy and produced Armadillo releases 8.200.0, 8.200.1, 8.300.0 and now 8.300.1. We tend to now package these (with proper reverse-dependency checks and all) first for the RcppCore drat repo from where you can install them "as usual" (see the repo ... [Read more...]

Earlier today Rcpp passed 1250 reverse-dependencies on CRAN as another big milestone. The graph is on the left depicts the growth of Rcpp usage (as measured by Depends, Imports and LinkingTo, but excluding Suggests) over time. Rcpp cleared 300 packa... [Read more...]

Welcome to the eleventh post in the rarely rued R rants series, or R4 for short. Time clearly flies as it has been three months since out last post on significantly reducing library size via stripping. I had been meaning to post on today's topic for quite some time, but ... [Read more...]

FOAAS upstream is still at release 1.1.0, but added a few new accessors a couple of months ago. So this new version of rfoaas updates to these: asshole(), cup(), fyyff(), immensity(), programmer(), rtfm(), thinking(). We also added test coverage and... [Read more...]

The fourteenth release in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp landed on CRAN yesterday after a somewhat longer-than-usual gestation period (and word is it may have been due to some unrelated disturbances from lots of changes within the main r-devel build). Thi... [Read more...]

A maintenance release 0.3.3.3.1 of RcppEigen is now on CRAN (and will get to Debian soon). It brings Eigen 3.3.* to R. The impetus was a request from CRAN to change the call to Rcpp::Rcpp.plugin.maker() to only use :: as the function has in fact been... [Read more...]