[Rcpp-devel] [ANN] Rcpp 0.9.7

Sat Oct 1 01:41:38 CEST 2011

Rcpp 0.9.7 went to CRAN this morning, below is the usual blog post in case
you haven't seen it.  The actual URL is 
    http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2011/09/30#rcpp_0.9.7
which has the hyper-references if you want to follow those.

Special thanks goes to Martyn Plummer whose heroic efforts in mud-wrestling
the SunPro compiler resulted in two patches so that we are now building on
Solaris.  You can't win, though, as the tests indicate that Solaris/x86 is
fine, yet Solaris/sparc fails in the unit tests.  If anyone here has such a
machine, please get in touch.  Thanks also to Darren Cook for spotting a
somewhat minor design flaw reflecting too much interaction with Java :)

Cheers, Dirk

Fri, 30 Sep 2011                                                                     

Rcpp 0.9.7                                                                       
A fresh maintenance release version 0.9.7 of Rcpp went onto CRAN and into Debian 
earlier today.                                                                   

This release contains two contributed fixes. The first, suggested by Darren Cook 
via the rcpp-devel mailing list, corrects how we had set up exceptions           
specifications, reflecting a bit of Java-think on our part. The idiom is         
generally discouraged in C++, and we now conform. The second came in two         
excellent patches by R Core member Martyn Plummer which finally get us           
compilation on Solaris. This is much appreciated as our hands were tied here for 
lack of access to such a box.                                                    

Otherwise, two new examples and a new unit test were added. The complete NEWS    
entry is below; more details are in the ChangeLog file in the package and on the 
Rcpp Changelog page.                                                             

 0.9.7   2011-09-29                                                              

     o   Applied two patches kindly provided by Martyn Plummer which provide     
         support for compilation on Solaris using the SunPro compiler            

     o   Minor code reorganisation in which exception specifiers are removed;    
         this effectively only implements a run-time (rather than compile-time)  
         check and is generally seen as a somewhat depreated C++ idiom. Thanks   
         to Darren Cook for alerting us to this issue.                           

     o   New example 'OpenMPandInline.r' in the OpenMP/ directory, showing how   
         easily use OpenMP by modifying the RcppPlugin output                    

     o   New example 'ifelseLooped.r' showing Rcpp can accelerate loops that may 
         be difficult to vectorise due to dependencies                           

     o   New example directory examples/Misc/ regrouping the new example as      
         well as the fibonacci example added in Rcpp 0.9.6                       

     o   New Rcpp-FAQ example warning of lossy conversion from 64-bit long       
         integer types into a 53-bit mantissa which has no clear fix yet.        

     o   New unit test for accessing a non-exported function from a namespace    

Thanks to CRANberries, you can also look at a diff to the previous release       
0.9.6. As always, even fuller details are on the Rcpp Changelog page and the     
Rcpp page which also leads to the downloads, 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                                                

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