Right on the heels of release 0.2.1 of RcppCNPy, a new version 0.2.2 is now on CRAN. RcppCNPy uses the CNPY library by Carl Rogers to provide R with easy read and write access to NumPy files. The reason for the new version that I had experimented ... [Read more...]

Version 0.2.1 of RcppCNPy is now on CRAN earlier. This version is a minor upgrade with a few small changes as detailed in the NEWS file: Changes in version 0.2.1 (2013-11-28) Synchronized code with the cnpy repository Added new function to ... [Read more...]

Earlier this year the blog had its tenth anniversary. I had meant to celebrate the occassion by revamping the site and blog a little. Having set up the updated R/Finance site, the Rcpp Gallery and Rcpp sites as well as the much-needed overhaul of th... [Read more...]

Conrad released a bug fix version 3.920.3 for his Armadillo library. So I prepared a new release 0.3.920.3 of RcppArmadillo which is nor on on CRAN and also already in Debian. Note that we skipped interim version .2 which addressed an Atlas linking i... [Read more...]

A new maintenance release 0.10.6 of Rcpp is now on the CRAN network for GNU R; binaries for Debian have been uploaded as well. This version ties up a number of smaller loose ends, but also adds a few new things, particularly John's new exposeClass.... [Read more...]

CRAN is the repository network for R. It is a resounding success with (as of right now) almost 5000 packages, and growth rate which has been estimated (cf John Fox's keynote at useR! a few years ago) to be near 40% per year. We as R community membe... [Read more...]

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

Along with the Rcpp 0.10.5 release yesterday, a new minor release 0.3.920.1 of RcppArmadillo came out. It is based on Conrad's Armadillo 3.920.0 plus a minor fix, and uses some of the new Rcpp features. Both package is now on CRAN and also in Debian.... [Read more...]

A new version of Rcpp is now on the CRAN network for GNU R; binaries for Debian have been uploaded as well. Once more, this release brings a large number of exciting changes to Rcpp. Some concern usability, some bring new features, some increase pe... [Read more...]

Two months to the day after the previous 0.3.0 release of RProtoBuf, we are happy to announce a maintenance release 0.3.1 which has now arrived on CRAN. RProtoBuf provides GNU R bindings for the Google Protobuf data encoding library used and release... [Read more...]

A couple of days ago, I gave a talk to the Chicago R Users Group which is run ever-so-smoothly by Paul Teetor and Chase Carpenter. The talk provided a brief introduction to Rcpp for R and C++ integration. Slides are now up on my talks / presentation... [Read more...]

A couple of days ago, I gave a talk to the Chicago R Users Group which is run ever-so-smoothly by Paul Teetor and Chase Carpenter. The talk provided a brief introduction to Rcpp for R and C++ integration. Slides are now up on my talks / presentation... [Read more...]

A new minor release 3.910.0 of Armadillo came out a few days ago. A new RcppArmadillo release 0.3.910.0 was provided rightaway, and after a brief back-and-forth with CRAN (mostly having to do with the non-standard vignette corresponding to our CSD... [Read more...]

A minor maintenance release of inline is now on CRAN, and has just been already included in Debian. This release contains a patch kindly contributed by Mikhail Umorin which fixes the of \code{cfunction} with lists of signatures and function bodies. ... [Read more...]

A bug-fix release 3.900.7 of Armadillo was provided by Conrad a few days ago. It has been rolled into a new RcppArmadillo release 0.3.900.7 which, after a brief delay, is now on CRAN and in Debian. The main bug fix is a change in the in-place vers... [Read more...]

A new release of RProtoBuf -- now at version 0.3.0 -- arrived earlier on CRAN. RProtoBuf provides GNU R bindings for the Google Protobuf data encoding library used and released by Google. Murray added a lot of new features which merited the incre... [Read more...]

With the demise of Google Reader, many of us have scrambled to find alternatives which cover many/most of the features we were used to. For me, synchronised access from web and mobile counts quite high, and I want the (Android) mobile experience to b... [Read more...]

The Sydney Users of R Forum (SURF) were kind enough to host me two days (well, three with the traveling ...) ago for an hour-long talk on Rcpp. Apparently, it set a new attendance record for this R user group. My thanks to Louise and Eugene for hosti... [Read more...]

A new version of Rcpp is now on the CRAN network for GNU R; binaries for Debian have been uploaded as well. This release brings a fairly large number of fixes and improvements across a number of Rcpp features, see below for the detailed list. We a... [Read more...]

The Sydney Users of R Forum (SURF) will be hosting me for a talk on July 10. The focus will be Rcpp for R and C++ integration, and the intent is to have this be really applied with lots of motivating examples. Organizers Louise and Eugene were able... [Read more...]