[Rcpp-devel] [ANN] Rcpp 0.12.9

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Rcpp 0.12.9 arrived on CRAN yesterday.  The announcement is at

   http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2017/01/15#rcpp_0.12.7

and (without links) below.

Cheers,  Dirk


  Sun, 15 Jan 2017

  Rcpp 0.12.9: Next round

   Yesterday afternoon, the nineth update in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp made
   it to the CRAN network for GNU R. Windows binaries have by now been
   generated; and the package was updated in Debian too. This 0.12.9 release
   follows the 0.12.0 release from late July, the 0.12.1 release in
   September, the 0.12.2 release in November, the 0.12.3 release in January,
   the 0.12.4 release in March, the 0.12.5 release in May, the 0.12.6 release
   in July, the 0.12.7 release in September, and the 0.12.8 release in
   November --- making it the thirteenth release at the steady bi-montly
   release frequency.

   Rcpp has become the most popular way of enhancing GNU R with C or C++
   code. As of today, 906 packages on CRAN depend on Rcpp for making
   analytical code go faster and further. That is up by sixthythree packages
   over the two months since the last release -- or about a package a day!

   Some of the changes in this release are smaller and detail-oriented. We
   did squash one annoying bug (stemming from the improved exception
   handling) in Rcpp::stop() that hit a few people. Nathan Russell added a
   sample() function (similar to the optional one in RcppArmadillo; this
   required a minor cleanup by for small number of other packages which used
   both namespaces 'opened'. Date and Datetime objects now have format()
   methods and << output support. We now have coverage reports via covr as
   well. Last but not least James "coatless" Balamuta was once more tireless
   on documentation and API consistency --- see below for more details.

    Changes in Rcpp version 0.12.9 (2017-01-14)

       * Changes in Rcpp API:

            * The exception stack message is now correctly demangled on all
              compiler versions (Jim Hester in #598)

            * Date and Datetime object and vector now have format methods and
              operator<< support (#599).

            * The size operator in Matrix is explicitly referenced avoiding a
              g++-6 issues (#607 fixing #605).

            * The underlying date calculation code was updated (#621, #623).

            * Addressed improper diagonal fill for non-symmetric matrices
              (James Balamuta in #622 addressing #619)

       * Changes in Rcpp Sugar:

            * Added new Sugar function sample() (Nathan Russell in #610 and
              #616).

            * Added new Sugar function Arg() (James Balamuta in #626
              addressing #625).

       * Changes in Rcpp unit tests

            * Added Environment::find unit tests and an
              Environment::get(Symbol) test (James Balamuta in #595
              addressing issue #594).

            * Added diagonal matrix fill tests (James Balamuta in #622
              addressing #619)

       * Changes in Rcpp Documentation:

            * Exposed pointers macros were included in the Rcpp Extending
              vignette (MathurinD; James Balamuta in #592 addressing #418).

            * The file Rcpp.bib move to directory bib which is guaranteed to
              be present (#631).

       * Changes in Rcpp build system

            * Travis CI now also calls covr for coverage analysis (Jim Hester
              in PR #591)

   Thanks to CRANberries, you can also look at a diff to the previous
   release. As always, even fuller details are on the Rcpp Changelog page and
   the Rcpp page which also leads to the downloads page, the browseable
   doxygen docs and zip files of doxygen output for the standard formats. A
   local directory has source and documentation too. Questions, comments etc
   should go to the rcpp-devel mailing list off the R-Forge page.

   This post by Dirk Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box
   blog. Please report excessive re-aggregation in third-party for-profit
   settings.

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