Romain and I wrapped up release 0.8.4 of Rcpp last Friday. However, given the time of year, it only appeared on CRAN this morning, and then only after some prodding as CRAN processing is more or less closed this week and probably next. This release... [Read more...]

A new version 0.8.3 of Rcpp is now CRAN and in Debian. It comes about three weeks after the 0.8.2 release. And even though we promised to concentrate on documentation, it contains a raft of new features: The addition of what we dub Rcpp su... [Read more...]

The minor bug-fix release 0.2.3 of RcppArmadillo went to CRAN this morning. It adds a tiny bit of configuration to permit Sun Studio / suncc to successfully build the package. There is no code change, and no configuration change for the other platfo... [Read more...]

A few month after the 0.8.9 release, we have another small update to beancounter. This version fixes a minor infelicity in the manual page (thanks to an Ubuntu and then Debian bug report) as well as a small coding bug where 'USD' was hard-coded when t... [Read more...]

A bug fix release Rcpp version 0.8.2 is now on CRAN and Debian. It contains some fixes for Sun compiler, but no user-visible changes and complements the Rcpp 0.8.1 release made Tuesday. Our thanks to Brian Ripley for help with the portability tests ... [Read more...]

Following the Rcpp 0.8.1 release we made yesterday, we released RcppArmadillo release 0.2.2 this morning. RcppArmadillo uses Rcpp (and some 'glue' code) to provide a transparent interface from R to Conrad Sanderson's impressive Armadillo library for... [Read more...]

Early this morning I sent Rcpp version 0.8.1 off to CRAN and Debian. In the meantime, Romain has already provided a very nice blog post about it. There are a few fairly visible new things in this release. As we want to focus the next few minor rel... [Read more...]

Yesterday morning, Romain pushed inline release 0.3.5 to CRAN. This is some ways a continuation of the 0.3.4 release I had made in December. That release had opened the door for the wide use of inline in our Rcpp package. And just how Rcpp has gro... [Read more...]

Memorial Day weekend is also time for the annual Bike The Drive in Chicago. This time only half the household got up bright and early and enjoyed Lakeshore Drive free of cars. A highly recommended event. [Read more...]

It's Memorial Day weekend so it was time for the Chicago's JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge on Thursday. The weather was glorious, the usual 20-some thousand runners participated and a good time was had. Work had arranged for a nice tent, food, mu... [Read more...]

Last week I had the opportunity to spend a few days at the Institute for Statistics and Mathematics of the WU Vienna / Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien. On Thursday, I gave a seminar on Rcpp and RInside introducing all the recent work with Romain on makin... [Read more...]

With the Rcpp 0.8.0 release on Monday, Romain, Doug and I were able to follow-up with a new RcppArmadillo release. RcppArmadillo uses Rcpp (and a few dozen lines of 'glue') to provide a transparent interface from R to Conrad Sanderson's impressive Arm... [Read more...]

Romain and I are happy to announce the release of Rcpp version 0.8.0. It has been uploaded to CRAN. A Debian upload is delayed until the now-required inline package is accepted into Debian. The source package is also available from here. This rel... [Read more...]

A few hours ago, I sent the following to both the R development list and the informal R / GSoC list: Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:27:29 -0500 To: R Development List CC: gsoc-r Subject: R and the Google Summer of Code 2010 -- Please welcome our new st... [Read more...]

Last Friday and Saturday the second R / Finance conference took place in Chicago on the UIC campus. As a co-organizer, it was a great pleasure to see so many users of R in Finance---from both industry and academia---come to Chicago to discuss and sh... [Read more...]

A new bug fix versions 0.7.12 of Rcpp is awaiting inclusion into CRAN and Debian. It is also available from here. This is another bug-fix version related solely to a build failure on Windows. Trying to protect paths with spaces has the side-effect... [Read more...]

Thanks to the efforts of the tireless R User Group organizers Szilard Pafka (in Los Angeles, recording the talk) and Drew Conway (in New York, converting and organising hosting), there is now a video and slide combo of my recent talk about Rcpp and R... [Read more...]

We spent last week in the LA area and had a generally good time out west. I was able to sneak in two talks and a group discussion, thanks to the help by Jan de Leeuw (and everybody at UCLA's Stats department) as well as by Szilard Pafka representing ... [Read more...]

Having espoused rule number one in regression testing in the post about yesterday's bug fix upload 0.23, we can now add rule number zero: Do not introduce a new error by omitting the trailing semicolon. I guess it shows that I don't really program in... [Read more...]

A new versions 0.7.11 of Rcpp is awaiting inclusion into CRAN and Debian. It is also available from here. This version fixes a somewhat serious bug uncovered by Doug Bates when working with vectors of strings. We also added a few new accessor func... [Read more...]