A new release 0.2.11 of RInside is now on CRAN. RInside provides a set of convenience classes which facilitate embedding of R inside of C++ applications and programs, using the classes and functions provided by the Rcpp R and C++ integration package... [Read more...]

Late last week, and just before leaving to participate in this crazy thing, I managed to get a new version of RcppSMC onto CRAN. RcppSMC combines the SMCTC template classes for Sequential Monte Carlo and Particle Filters (Johansen, 2009, JSS) with t... [Read more...]

A new major release 0.11.0 of Rcpp is now on the CRAN network for GNU R and binaries for Debian have been uploaded as well. Before you read on, please note that this release will most likely require a reinstallation of all your packages using Rcpp... [Read more...]

A new minor / maintenance release RQuantLib 0.3.11 is now on CRAN and in Debian. Like the RcppClassic upload two days ago and the RcppZiggurat and RcppEigen uploads yesterday, this release was motivated at least in part by an upcoming Rcpp releas... [Read more...]

A new maintenance release of RcppZiggurat is now on CRAN. And just like yesterday's RcppClassic upload, this is motivated chiefly by some minor caretaking for an upcoming Rcpp release -- hopefully soon, and with more details to follow. This release... [Read more...]

A maintenance release of RcppClassic, now at version 0.9.5, went out to CRAN today. Nothing changed in user-facing code. The build was triggered by a change in an upcoming Rcpp release (more about that another time), and a few minor updates were nee... [Read more...]

A bug fix release of Armadillo came out and was turned into a new RcppArmadillo release which is now on CRAN and will go shortly to Debian. The complete list of changes is below. Changes in RcppArmadillo version 0.4.000.2 (2014-01-21) Up... [Read more...]

A new major release 0.4.0 of RProtoBuf, is now on CRAN. RProtoBuf provides GNU 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 proto... [Read more...]

A new major release 4.000 of Armadillo came out out yesterday morning. This is a new stable release by Conrad with a new major number, and it brings a few nice changes as detailed below. I rolled up RcppArmadillo version 0.400 yesterday morning, an... [Read more...]

A new release of the BH package is now on CRAN and its mirrors. BH provides (a sizeable subset of) the Boost library for C++, particularly the (large) parts delivered as pure template headers not requiring linking. See the BH page for more details... [Read more...]

Over the last few weeks I have been working on getting the Ziggurat normal random number generator updated and available in R. The Ziggurat generator provides a pretty unique combination of speed and good statistical properties for (standard) normal r... [Read more...]

In a recent email to the Rcpp and lme4 mailing lists, Doug Bates announced that was turning away from R, Rcpp, lme4 and hence also RcppEigen for which he had been both the primary author and maintainer. This is huge loss for the R community. I have... [Read more...]

A new version 0.3.2 of RProtoBuf, is now on CRAN. RProtoBuf provides GNU R bindings for the Google Protobuf data encoding library used and released by Google. As for the last few releases, Murray took charge of most changes. The NEWS file entry f... [Read more...]

A maintenance release (now at version 0.1.2) of my RcppDE package (previously described in these two posts) is now CRAN. More details about the package are available in the vignette also included in the RcppDE R package. Changes were minimal and dr... [Read more...]

A maintenance release of my random package for truly (hardware-based) random numbers (pulled from random.org) is now on CRAN. It's been a while since previous releases. The package is described in a detailed vignette as well as in a essay by Mads Haa... [Read more...]

A maintenance release (now at version 0.2.5) of my gcbd package (described only in these two posts) is now CRAN. More details about the package are available in the paper which is also included in the gcbd R package. Changes were minimal and driv... [Read more...]

A new Armadillo release 3.930 came out a few days ago, with a very nice set of changes (see below). I rolled this into RcppArmadillo 0.3.930.0. However, one of these changes revealed that R shipped only the standard SVD for complex-valued matrices, and not the more performant divide-and-conquer approach. So in R ... [Read more...]

I spent yesterday at the very enjoyable Big Data Summit held at the University of Illinois Research Park at the edge of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. campus. My (short) presentation was part of a panel session on R and Big Data... [Read more...]

digest version 0.6.4 is now on CRAN and in Debian. This is a pure maintenance release which should help with a build issue affecting users on Solaris. CRANberries provides the usual summary of changes to version 0.6.3. Our package is available... [Read more...]

In early October, I had an opportunity to talk about Rcpp and RcppArmadillo at the Statistical Computing Seminar at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. And then two weeks ago, I had an invitation to talk at the Center for Re... [Read more...]