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Another minor release 0.1.5 of pkgKitten just hit on CRAN today, after a break of almost three years. This release provides a few small changes. The default per-package manual page now benefits from a second refinement (building on what was introduc... [Read more...]

A new version of digest arrived at CRAN earlier today, and I just sent an updated package to Debian too. digest creates hash digests of arbitrary R objects (using the md5, sha-1, sha-256, sha-512, crc32, xxhash32, xxhash64, murmur32, and spookyhash a... [Read more...]

A new release 0.3.7 of RcppGSL is now on CRAN. The RcppGSL package provides an interface from R to the GNU GSL using the Rcpp package. Stephen Wade noticed that we were not actually freeing memory from the GSL vectors and matrices as we set out to do... [Read more...]

Five ago I referenced the Seinfeld Streak used in an earlier post of regular updates to to the Rcpp Gallery: This is sometimes called Jerry Seinfeld’s secret to productivity: Just keep at it. Don’t break the streak. and then showed the first ch... [Read more...]

Five ago I referenced the Seinfeld Streak used in an earlier post of regular updates to to the Rcpp Gallery: This is sometimes called Jerry Seinfeld’s secret to productivity: Just keep at it. Don’t break the streak. and then showed the first ch... [Read more...]

Another month, another Armadillo upstream release! Hence a new RcppArmadillo release arrived on CRAN earlier today, and was just shipped to Debian as well. It brings a faster solve() method and other goodies. We also switched to the (awesome) tinyte... [Read more...]

A new release of RcppAnnoy is now on CRAN. RcppAnnoy is the Rcpp-based R integration of the nifty Annoy library by Erik Bernhardsson. Annoy is a small and lightweight C++ template header library for very fast approximate nearest neighbours—origina... [Read more...]

A new version of digest is just now arriving at CRAN (following a slight holdup over one likely spurious reverse dependency error), and I will send an updated package to Debian shortly as well. digest creates hash digests of arbitrary R objects (usin... [Read more...]

Another pinp package release! pinp allows for snazzier one or two column Markdown-based pdf vignettes, and is now used by a few packages. A screenshot of the package vignette can be seen below. Additional screenshots are at the pinp page. This relea... [Read more...]

A new package of mine arrived on CRAN yesterday, having been uploaded a few days prior on the weekend. It extends the most excellent (and very minimal / zero depends) unit testing package tinytest by Mark van der Loo with the very clever and well-don... [Read more...]

A new release of our pinp package is now on CRAN. pinp allows for snazzier one or two column Markdown-based pdf vignettes, and is now used by a few packages. A screenshot of the package vignette can be seen below. Additional screenshots are at the pinp page. This release was ... [Read more...]

A new RcppArmadillo release based on a new Armadillo upstream release arrived on CRAN, and will get to Debian shortly. It brings continued improvements for sparse matrices and a few other things; see below for more details. I also appear to have ski... [Read more...]

A fresh and very exciting release of the anytime package is arriving on CRAN right now. This is the seventeenth release, and it comes pretty much exactly one month after the preceding 0.3.5 release. anytime is a very focused package aiming to do just... [Read more...]

A new version of the RcppExamples package is now on CRAN. The RcppExamples package provides a handful of short examples detailing by concrete working examples how to set up basic R data structures in C++. It also provides a simple example for packagi... [Read more...]

Since this morning, Rcpp stands at just over 1750 reverse-dependencies on CRAN. The graph on the left depicts the growth of Rcpp usage (as measured by Depends, Imports and LinkingTo, but excluding Suggests) over time. Rcpp was first released in Nove... [Read more...]

A maintenance release of RcppQuantuccia arrived on CRAN earlier today. RcppQuantuccia brings the Quantuccia header-only subset / variant of QuantLib to R. At the current stage, it mostly offers date and calendaring functions. This release was trigger... [Read more...]

A new version 0.4.10 of RQuantLib just got onto CRAN; a Debian upload will follow in due course. QuantLib is a very comprehensice free/open-source library for quantitative finance; RQuantLib connects it to the R environment and language. This version... [Read more...]

Welcome to the 23nd post in the rationally reasonable R rants series, or R4 for short. Today’s post was motivated by an exchange on the r-devel list earlier in the day, and a few subsequent off-list emails. Roger Koenker posted a question: how to b... [Read more...]

A shiny new release 0.2.6 of RcppCCTZ is now at CRAN. RcppCCTZ uses Rcpp to bring CCTZ to R. CCTZ is a C++ library for translating between absolute and civil times using the rules of a time zone. In fact, it is two libraries. One for dealing with civ... [Read more...]