Author: Thinking inside the box

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Thinking inside the box. A first update 0.0.2 of the pinp package arrived on CRAN just a few days after the initial release. We added a new vignette for the package (see below), extended a few nice features, and smoothed a few corners. The NEWS entry for this release follows. Changes in tint version 0.0.2 (2017-09-20) The YAML segment can be used to select font size, one-or-two column mode, one-or-two side mode, linenumbering and watermarks (#21 and #26 addressing #25) If pinp.cls or jss.bst are not present, they are copied in ((#27 addressing #23) Output is now ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Thinking inside the box. A rather boring and otherwise uneventful release 0.9.7 of RcppClassic is now at CRAN. This package provides a maintained version of the otherwise deprecated first Rcpp API; no new projects should use it. Once again no changes in user-facing code. But this makes it the first package to use the very new and shiny pinp package as the backend for its vignette, now converted to Markdown—see here for this new version. We also updated three sources files for tabs versus spaces as the current g++ version complained (correctly !!) about misleading indents. Otherwise ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Thinking inside the box. A brandnew and very exciting (to us, at least) package called pinp just arrived on CRAN, following a somewhat unnecessarily long passage out of incoming. It is based on the PNAS LaTeX Style offered by the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, or PNAS for short. And there is already a Markdown version in the wonderful rticles packages. But James Balamuta and I thought we could do one better when we were looking to typeset our recent PeerJ Prepint as an attractive looking vignette for use ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Thinking inside the box. A new version of drat arrived earlier today on CRAN as another no-human-can-delay-this automatic upgrade directly from the CRAN prechecks. It is mostly a maintenance release ensuring PACKAGES.rds is also updated, plus some minor other edits. drat stands for drat R Archive Template, and helps with easy-to-create and easy-to-use repositories for R packages. Since its inception in early 2015 it has found reasonably widespread adoption among R users because repositories with marked releases is the better way to distribute code. The NEWS file summarises the release as follows: Changes in drat version 0.1.3 ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Thinking inside the box. A new minor release of RcppRedis arrived on CRAN last week, following the release 0.2.0 of RcppMsgPack which brought the MsgPack headers forward to release 2.1.5. This required a minor and rather trivial change in the code. When the optional RcppMsgPack package is used, we now require this version 0.2.0 or later. We made a few internal updates to the package as well. Changes in version 0.1.8 (2017-09-08) A new file init.c was added with calls to R_registerRoutines() and R_useDynamicSymbols() Symbol registration is enabled in useDynLib Travis CI was updated to using run.sh ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Thinking inside the box. A new and much enhanced version of RcppMsgPack arrived on CRAN a couple of days ago. It came together following this email to the r-package-devel list which made it apparent that Travers Ching had been working on MessagePack converters for R which required the very headers I had for use from, inter alia, the RcppRedis package. So we joined our packages. I updated the headers in RcppMsgPack to the current upstream version 2.1.5 of MessagePack, and Travers added his helper functions allow direct packing / unpacking of MessagePack objects at the R level, ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Thinking inside the box. An new version 0.0.9 of RcppAnnoy, our Rcpp-based R integration of the nifty Annoy library by Erik, is now on CRAN. Annoy is a small and lightweight C++ template header library for very fast approximate nearest neighbours. This release corrects an issue for Windows users discovered by GitHub user ‘khoran’ who later also suggested the fix of binary mode. It upgrades to Annoy release 1.9.1 and brings its new Manhattan distance to RcppAnnoy. A number of unit tests were added as well, and we updated some packaging internals such as symbol registration. And ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Thinking inside the box. A second fix-up release is needed following on the recent bi-monthly RcppArmadillo release as well as the initial follow-up as it turns out that OS X / macOS is so darn special that it needs an entire separate treatment for OpenMP. Namely to turn it off entirely… Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra aiming towards a good balance between speed and ease of use with a syntax deliberately close to a Matlab. RcppArmadillo integrates this library with the R environment and language–and is widely used by (currently) ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Thinking inside the box. A new version 0.2.0 of the RcppSMC package arrived on CRAN earlier today (as a very quick pretest-publish within minutes of submission). RcppSMC provides Rcpp-based bindings to R for the Sequential Monte Carlo Template Classes (SMCTC) by Adam Johansen described in his JSS article. This release 0.2.0 is chiefly the work of Leah South, a Ph.D. student at Queensland University of Technology, who was during the last few months a Google Summer of Code student mentored by Adam and myself. It was pleasure to work with Leah on this, and see her progress ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Thinking inside the box. The BH package on CRAN was updated today to version 1.65.0. BH provides a sizeable portion of the Boost C++ libraries as a set of template headers for use by R, possibly with Rcpp as well as other packages. This release upgrades the version of Boost to the rather new upstream version Boost 1.65.0 released earlier this week, and adds two new libraries: align and sort. I had started the upgrade process a few days ago under release 1.64.0. Rigorous checking of reverse dependencies showed that mvnfast needed a small change (which was ... Read More