CRAN now tests packages against g++-4.7 (as this version has become the default on Debian's testing variant. This compiler switch once again triggered a set of build failures, mostly from include files now deemed missing. For RcppSMC, it came down ... [Read more...]

Two days ago, Conrad Sanderson released another bug-fix version 3.0.3 for the 3.0.0 branch of his excellent Armadillo C++ template library for linear algebra. The new RcppArmadillo release 0.3.0.3 which contains it appeared on CRAN yesterday. Beside ... [Read more...]

Earlier today, Conrad Sanderson released another bug-fix version 3.0.2 for the still fairly recent 3.0.0 version of his excellent Armadillo C++ template library for linear algebra. The new RcppArmadillo release 0.3.0.2 also appeared on CRAN this morn... [Read more...]

RDieHarder is an R package providing access to the DieHarder battery of tests for random number generators developed by Robert G. Brown and others. DieHarder had been updated to version 3.1.1 a while back, and I had been a little behind with updating... [Read more...]

Conrad Sanderson released a bug-fix version 3.0.1 following up on the very recent 3.0.0 version of his excellent Armadillo C++ template library for linear algebra. I made a new RcppArmadillo release 0.3.0.1 which just appeared on CRAN. The short ... [Read more...]

Conrad Sanderson has released a new major version 3.0.0 of his excellent Armadillo C++ template library for linear algebra. A corresponding new release 0.3.0 of RcppArmadillo is now on CRAN. This follows four pre-releases of Armadillo which we pack... [Read more...]

The RcppDE package required a bug-fix release. One of the tests compared results to those from the DEoptim package this is based upon, and these are no longer equal, leading the tests to fail. While I was at it, I finally committed a few more things t... [Read more...]

Conrad is readying his fabulous Armadillo C++ template library for linear algebra for a new 3.0.0 release, and started to make pre-releases. His version 2.99.1 came about a good week ago, it took us a few days to make a small required change in RcppAr... [Read more...]

Hm, I realized that I announced this on Google+ (via Rcpp) as well as on Twitter, on the r-packages list, wrote a new and simple web page for it, but had not put it on my blog. So here is some catching up. Sequential Monte Carlo / Particle Filter is ... [Read more...]

The annoucement below just went to the R-SIG-Finance list. More information is as usual the the R / Finance page: Now open for registrations: R / Finance 2012: Applied Finance with R May 11 and 12, 2012 Chicago, IL, USA The registration for R/Fi... [Read more...]

A new version of the digest package (which generates hash function summaries for arbitrary (and possibly nested) R objects using any of the standard md5, sha-1, sha-256 or crc32 algorithms) is now on CRAN. Murray Stokely noticed a corner case where... [Read more...]

RcppArmadillo release 0..2.36 is now on CRAN. It contains just the changes from the new Armadillo release 2.4.4. The NEWS entry below summarises the changes. 0.2.36 2012-03-05 o Upgraded to Armadillo release 2.4.4 * fixes for q... [Read more...]

The new RcppArmadillo release 0.2.35 now supports the Rcpp::Rcout output stream device. Based on a contributed Rcpp patch by Jelper Ypma, the Rcpp::Rcout output stream gets redirected to R's buffered output. In other words, R's own output and that e... [Read more...]

Now that Rcpp 0.9.10 is released and on CRAN, other packages can take advantage of a small change needed to make use of the quasi-output stream Rcpp::Rcout. So the new release 0.2.35 of RcppArmadillo does just that---and input/output from Armadillo... [Read more...]

A new release 0.9.10 of Rcpp is now on CRAN and in Debian. This is mostly internal release with a little bit of code reorgination (some of which will be used by a forthcoming RcppArmadillo release), some changes to make R CMD check happy, and one or ... [Read more...]

A new version of RInside, now at 0.2.6, is now available via 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++... [Read more...]

A minor new release of the RcppExamples package is now on CRAN. RcppExamples contains a few illustrations of how to use Rcpp. It grew out of documentation for the classic API (now in its own package RcppClassic), and while we added a few more funct... [Read more...]

Release 0.9.9 of Rcpp is now on CRAN and getting into Debian too. This is mainly a bug fix release: our addition of int64 support in 0.9.8 came at the expense of support for long and unsigned long which broke some packages using Rcpp, and expecting t... [Read more...]

A new release 0.9.8 of Rcpp is now on CRAN and will also get into Debian shortly (once I finish building R 2.14.1). This release contains a few incremental changes. Romain, sponsored by by the Open Source Programs Office at Google, had released a... [Read more...]

Last night, the text below went out to r-sig-finance along with updates to the R/Finance website and its Call for Papers page; followed by some tweeting and Goggle+'ing (and please do feel free to retweet and share at will...) Call for Papers: ... [Read more...]