[Rcpp-devel] Rcpp 0.8.4

[Romain Francois]

Le 16/07/10 01:18, Dominick Samperi a écrit :
> Currently Rcpp 0.8.4 builds cleanly at CRAN under Windows only

This is as close to nonsense as it can be, please stop this quest of 
yours to advertise problems that do not exist and RTFM

we do get a trivial warning on linux which has already been fixed, and 
0.8.4 has not been cran processed under OSX but we have evidence that it 
works. solaris is a different matter.

> and correspondingly, the dependent package cxxPack now fails under
> Windows only (not able to find header files?).

The author of that package chose to not follow the documented way to 
pull in the headers , which is as I told you before to add

LinkingTo: Rcpp

in the DESCRIPTION file

Also, see this thread on R-devel on how to invoke Rscript from Makevars 
correctly, which incidently is also documented in the "Rcpp-extending" 
vignette.

Romain

> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org
> <mailto:edd at debian.org>> wrote:
>
>
>     Release 0.8.4 is now on CRAN (with a little delay due to vacations,
>     and we
>     even got lucky in getting it out now rather than at the end).  The
>     relevant
>     NEWS entry is below.
>
>     0.8.4   2010-07-09
>
>         o   new sugar vector functions: rep, rep_len, rep_each, rev,
>     head, tail,
>             diag
>
>         o   sugar has been extended to matrices: The Matrix class now
>     extends the
>             Matrix_Base template that implements CRTP. Currently sugar
>     functions
>             for matrices are: outer, col, row, lower_tri, upper_tri, diag
>
>         o   The unit tests have been reorganised into fewer files with
>     one call
>             each to cxxfunction() (covering multiple tests) resulting in a
>             significant speedup
>
>         o   The Date class now uses the same mktime() replacement that R
>     uses
>             (based on original code from the timezone library by Arthur
>     Olson)
>             permitting wide date ranges on all operating systems
>
>         o   The FastLM/example has been updated, a new benchmark based
>     on the
>             historical Longley data set has been added
>
>         o   RcppStringVector now uses std::vector<std::string> internally
>
>         o   setting the .Data slot of S4 objects did not work properly
>
>
>     --
>       Regards, Dirk


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