anytime arrived on CRAN via release 0.0.1 a good two days ago. anytime aims to convert anything in integer, numeric, character, factor, ordered, ... format to POSIXct (or Date) objects. This new release 0.0.2 adds two new functions to gather conversi... [Read more...]

anytime just arrived on CRAN as a very first release 0.0.1. So why (yet another) package dealing with dates and times? R excels at computing with dates, and times. By using typed representation we not only get all that functionality but also of the a... [Read more...]

gettz is now on CRAN in its initial release 0.0.1. It provides a possible fallback in situations where Sys.timezone() fails to determine the system timezone. That can happen when e.g. the file /etc/localtime somehow is not a link into the correspondi... [Read more...]

Relatively quickly after version 0.4.5 of RProtoBuf was released, we have a new version 0.4.6 to announce which appeared on CRAN today. RProtoBuf provides R bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers ("Protobuf") data encoding and serialization library used and released by Google, and deployed as a language and operating-system agnostic protocol by ... [Read more...]

The seventh update in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp just arrived on the CRAN network for GNU R as well as in Debian. This 0.12.7 release follows the 0.12.0 release from late July, the 0.12.1 release in September, the 0.12.2 release in November, the 0.12.3 release in January, the 0.12.4 release in March, the 0.12.5 release in May, ... [Read more...]

A few short weeks after the 0.4.4 release of RProtoBuf, we are happy to announce a new version 0.4.5 which appeared on CRAN earlier today. RProtoBuf provides R bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers ("Protobuf") data encoding library used and released by Google, and deployed as a language and operating-system agnostic protocol ... [Read more...]

FOAAS upstream came out with release 1.1.0 earlier last week. Tyler Hunt was kind enough to provide an almost immediate pull request adding support for the extended capabilties. Following yesterday's upload we now have version 1.1.0 of rfoaas on CRA... [Read more...]

A maintenance release of the RcppCNPy package is now on CRAN. RcppCNPy provides R with read and write access to NumPy files thanks to the cnpy library by Carl Rogers. This release just updates a few package internals such as the vignette, the DESCRIP... [Read more...]

Another Armadillo 7.* release -- now at 7.400. We skipped the 7.300.* serie release as it came too soon after our most recent CRAN release. Releasing RcppArmadillo 0.7.400.2.0 now keeps us at the (roughly monthly) cadence which works as a good compr... [Read more...]

A new upstream release 3.2.9 of Eigen is now reflected in a new RcppEigen release 0.3.2.9.0 which got onto CRAN late yesterday and is now going into Debian. Once again, Yixuan Qiu did the heavy lifting of merging upstream (and two local twists we need to keep around). Another change is by ... [Read more...]

A release of RQuantLib is now on CRAN and in Debian. It contains a lot of new code contributed by Terry Leitch over a number of pull requests. See below for full details but the changes focus on Fixed Income and Fixed Income Derivatives, and cover swap, discount curves, swaptions ... [Read more...]

The big 1.0.0 is here! Following the unsurpassed lead of the FOAAS project, we have arrived at a milestone: Release 1.0.0 is now on CRAN. The rfoaas package provides an interface for R to the most excellent FOAAS service--which itself provides a mod... [Read more...]

One year ago (tomorrow) drat 0.1.0 was released. It held up rather well, but a number of small fixes and enhancements piled up, along with somewhat-finished to still-raw additions to the examples/ sections. With that, we are happy to announce drat re... [Read more...]

The second 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 the summer of 2006, and joined by me a few weeks later. littler is the first command-line interface for R and predates Rscript. It ... [Read more...]

A maintenance release of RcppStreams is now on CRAN. RcppStreams brings the excellent Streamulus C++ template library for event stream processing to R. Streamulus, written by Irit Katriel, uses very clever template meta-programming (via Boost Fusion... [Read more...]

A new release, now at version number 0.6.10, of the digest package is now on CRAN. I also just prepared the Debian upload. This release, just like the previous one, is once again the work mostly of external contributors. Michel Lang added length chec... [Read more...]

A first update for the recent RcppGetconf package for reading system configuration --- not unlike getconf from the libc library --- is now out. Almost immediately after I tweeted / blogged asking for help with OS X builds, fellow Rcpp hacker Qiang Ko... [Read more...]

A new package RcppGetconf to read system configuration --- not unlike getconf from the libc library. Now R can read what system calls sysconf, pathconf and confstr have to say. The package is still pretty green, and now on CRAN in a very first versio... [Read more...]

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 pac... [Read more...]

Version 0.0.5 of RcppCCTZ arrived on CRAN a couple of days ago. It reflects an upstream fixed made a few weeks ago. CRAN tests revealed that g++-6 was tripping over one missing #define; this was added upstream and I subsequently synchronized with upstream. At the same time the set of ... [Read more...]