A new minor release of RQuantLib was released onto CRAN and into Debian. It takes advantages of some changes from last week's QuantLib release 1.7. Particularly noteworthy is the addition of support for intra-daily times in QuantLib based on work by... [Read more...]

Following on yesterday's announcement of RcppCCTZ, what is the only thing better than another date, time, or timezones library package? One that works on Solaris too :) Bradley White from CCTZ upstream spotted the failed compilation on the machine in Oxford and suggested a quick fix. Jeroen quickly tested what I ... [Read more...]

A new package! A couple of weeks ago folks at Google released CCTZ: a C++ library for translating between absolute and civil times using the rules of a time zone. It requires only a proper C++11 compiler and the standard IANA time zone data base which standard Unix, Linux, OS ... [Read more...]

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A new version of RcppAnnoy, our Rcpp-based R integration of the nifty Annoy library by Erik, is now on CRAN. Annoy is a small, fast, and lightweight C++ template header library for approximate nearest neighbours. This release mostly just catches up w... [Read more...]

The second update in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp is now on the CRAN network for GNU R. As usual, I will also push a Debian package. This follows the 0.12.0 release from late July which started to add some serious new features, and builds upon the 0.12.... [Read more...]

Yet another monthly upstream Armadillo update gets us the first changes to the new the 6.* series. This was preceded by two uploads of test released to GitHub-only. These two were tested both against all reverse-dependencies as usual. A matching upload to Debian will follow shortly. Armadillo is a powerful and ... [Read more...]

A new major release of littler is now available. And for the first time in the nine years since 2006 when Jeff started the effort (which I joined not long after) we are now a CRAN package. This required a rewrite of the build system, foregoing the calls to aclocal, autoheader, ... [Read more...]

This morning, Rcpp reached another round milestone: 501 packages on CRAN now depend on it (as measured by Depends, Imports and LinkingTo declarations, and even excluding one or two packages with an accidental declaration that do not use it). The gra... [Read more...]

A new release rfoaas is now on CRAN following up on the recent upstream release 0.1.8 of FOAAS. The rfoaas package provides an interface for R to the most excellent FOAAS service--which provides a modern, scalable and RESTful web service for the frequent need to tell someone to f$#@ off. Release 0.1.8 ... [Read more...]

The first update to the Rblpapi package since the initial CRAN upload in August is now available. Rblpapi connects R to the Bloomberg system, giving access to a truly vast array of time series data and custom calculations. This release brings a new b... [Read more...]

Earlier today, Josh sent the text below in this message to the R-SIG-Finance list as the very first heads-up concerning the 2016 edition of our successful R/Finance series. We are once again very excited about our conference, thrilled about upcoming keynotes (some of which are confirmed and some of which ... [Read more...]

Earlier today, Josh sent the text below in this message to the R-SIG-Finance list as the very first heads-up concerning the 2016 edition of our successful R/Finance series. We are once again very excited about our conference, thrilled about upcoming keynotes (some of which are confirmed and some of which ... [Read more...]

So one year ago, I posted a reference to the Seinfeld Streak as used in an even earlier post of regular updates to to the Rcpp Gallery: This is sometimes called Jerry Seinfeld's secret to productivity: Just keep at it. Don't break the streak. Now it is one year later ... [Read more...]

So one year ago, I posted a reference to the Seinfeld Streak as used in an even earlier post of regular updates to to the Rcpp Gallery: This is sometimes called Jerry Seinfeld's secret to productivity: Just keep at it. Don't break the streak. Now it is one year later ... [Read more...]

An incremental RcppRedis release arrived on CRAN yesterday. Russell Pierce contributed four new function for pushing and popping to/from lists, and added authentication support. I added a simple ping command as well. Changes in version 0.1.6 (2015-... [Read more...]

The somewhat regular monthly upstream Armadillo update brings us a first release of the 6.* series. This follows an earlier test release announced on the list, and released to the Rcpp drat. And as version 6.100.0 was released on Friday by Conrad, we rolled it into RcppArmadillo release 0.6.100.0.0 yesterday. Following yet another ... [Read more...]

A bugfix release of RcppEigen is now on CRAN and in Debian. The NEWS file entry follows. Changes in RcppEigen version 0.3.2.5.1 (2015-09-23) Corrected use of kitten() thanks to Grant Brown (#21) Applied upstream change to protect agains... [Read more...]

And yet another upstream Armadillo update -- version 5.600.2 was released yesterday by Conrad. So I pushed a new and matching RcppArmadillo release 0.5.600.2.0 to CRAN and to Debian. Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra aiming towards a good balance between speed and ease of use ... [Read more...]

Right before heading off to last week's excellent EARL 2015 conference in London, a new minor release of RQuantLib was released onto CRAN and into Debian. The changes are detailed below. Changes in RQuantLib version 0.4.1 (2015-09-11) Changes... [Read more...]