Another pure maintenance release, this time of RcppClassic, the package supporting the deprecated older classic Rcpp API defined in the earlier 2005 to 2006 releases, is now on CRAN It contains no new code, but smoothes one or two edges in the buil... [Read more...]

I realized I never announced this on the blog, so without further ado.... Rcpp Workshop in Chicago on April 28, 2011 This year's R/Finance conference will be preceded by a full-day masterclass on Rcpp and related topics which will be held on... [Read more...]

A pure maintenance release of RcppGSL---our interface package between R and the GNU GSL using our Rcpp package for seamless R and C++ integration---is now on CRAN It contains no new code, but smoothes one or two edges in the build process and noti... [Read more...]

A brand new and shiny 0.9.3 release of Rcpp is now on CRAN and Debian. This version contains an actual bug fix for Rcpp modules and a few build improvements, including for both clang/llvm and g++-4.6 (which, being in Debian, is already used for c... [Read more...]

A build-fix release RQuantLib 0.3.7 is now on CRAN and in Debian. RQuantLib combines (some of) the quantitative analytics of QuantLib with the R statistical computing environment and language. Thanks to the help by Brian Ripley (who compiled Quan... [Read more...]

Conrad Sanderson made a bug-fix release (1.1.92) by for his wonderful Armadillo templated C++ library for linear algebra appeared yesterday and as usual a new release 0.2.18 of RcppArmadillo, our Rcpp-based integration into R is now on CRAN mirrors. ... [Read more...]

The RInside package makes it pretty simple and straightforward to embed R, the wonderful statistical programming environment and language, inside of a C++ application. This uses both the robust embedding API provided by R itself, and the higher-level... [Read more...]

Another release (1.1.90) by Conrad Sanderson for his wonderful Armadillo templated C++ library for linear algebra appeared yesterday. Consequently, a new release 0.2.17 of RcppArmadillo, our Rcpp-based integration into R is now on CRAN mirrors. The... [Read more...]

Conrad Sanderson continues an active release schedule for his wonderful Armadillo templated C++ library for linear algebra; release 1.1.8 just came out yesterday. So I made a new release 0.2.16 of RcppArmadillo, our Rcpp-based integration into R. No ... [Read more...]

A few days ago Conrad Sanderson released version 1.1.6 of his Armadillo templated C++ library for linear algebra. Accordingly, I made a new release 0.2.14 of RcppArmadillo, our Rcpp-based integration into R which included a few local fixes. However, ... [Read more...]

The 0.9.2 release of Rcpp is now on CRAN and Debian. This version contains a build fix for the older 10.5.* version of OS X and its g++ 4.2.1 compiler; we now skip one test that upset it. CRAN builds for OS X should resume. We also added simple ... [Read more...]

A bug-fix release RQuantLib 0.3.6 is now on CRAN and in Debian. RQuantLib combines (some of) the quantitative analytics of QuantLib with the R statistical computing environment and language. There are only two changes to two files where an explic... [Read more...]

Yesterday Conrad Sanderson released version 1.1.4 of his Armadillo templated C++ library for linear algebra, so hot on the heels our 0.2.12 release from a few days ago comes version 0.2.13 of RcppArmadillo, our Rcpp-based integration into R. This new... [Read more...]

A new version 1.1.2 of Conrad Sanderson's Armadillo templated C++ library for linear algebra came out a couple of days ago. This has now been wrapped into a new version 0.2.12 of RcppArmadillo, our Rcpp-based integration into R. The short NEWS fil... [Read more...]

A new release 0.9.1 of Rcpp went to CRAN and Debian yesterday. This version contains mostly bug-fixes and rather few enhancements. The changes are mostly 'internal fixes' and not user-facing; they mostly address some issues in memory management w... [Read more...]

The CRANberries service (which reports on new and updated CRAN packages for the R language and environment) is now tweeting about new packages. Simply follow @CRANberriesFeed to receive theses messages. For the technically minded, adding this to the... [Read more...]

The family of Rcpp packages just grew by one: the first 0.1.0 release of RcppBDT is now on CRAN. RcppBDT stands for Rcpp Boost Date_Time. It employs what we call Rcpp modules: a mechanism which provides easier ways to expose C++ functions and classe... [Read more...]

My friend Jeff deserves a sincere congratulation for finally unveiling his rebranded R consultancy Lemnica. One notable feature of the new website is a section called esoteric R which discusses less frequently-visited corners of the R world. It even b... [Read more...]

The good folks at Bespoke Investment Group frequently show charts of so-called overbought or oversold levels; see e.g. here for the most recent global markets snapshot. Classifying markets as overbought or oversold is a popular heuristic. It starts... [Read more...]

Thanks to two patches by Murray Stokely, we have a nice new minor release 0.2.2 of RProtoBuf out on CRAN. RProtoBuf provides GNU R bindings for the Google Protobuf data encoding library used and released by Google. The NEWS file entry follows bel... [Read more...]