[Rcpp-devel] Rcpp 0.8.4

[Romain Francois]

Le 16/07/10 10:12, Romain Francois a écrit :
>
> 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

and here is the link of the thread:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.devel/24449

> 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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