[Rcpp-devel] [ANN] Rcpp 0.12.4

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Rcpp 0.12.4 arrived on CRAN two hours ago, and I wrote the usual short blog
post which it is at

   http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/    
   http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2016/03/26#rcpp_0.12.4

and included as text (without links) below.  I seem to have failed to
announced 0.12.1, 0.12.2 or 0.12.3 here, and didn't mention the 'now used by
more than 600 CRAN packages' milestone either so feel free to scroll around
the blog page.

This release once again continues on the 'every two month' release cycle and
brings a number of fixes including three (by my count) from first-time
contributors.   Good work by all, and big, big thanks again to everybody for
ideas, suggestions, bug fixes, issue tickets and of course well-written pull
requests. 

On behalf of Rcpp Core,  Dirk


  Sat, 26 Mar 2016

  Rcpp 0.12.4: And another one

   The fourth update in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp has now arrived on
   the CRAN network for GNU R, and has just been pushed to Debian as
   well. This follows four days of idleness in the incoming/
   directory: Word is that the tireless CRAN maintainers were
   traveling and only covering simpler packages. The 0.12.4 release
   follows the 0.12.0 release from late July, the 0.12.1 release in
   September, the 0.12.2 release in November, and the 0.12.3 release
   in January -- making it the eight release at the steady bi-montly
   release frequency. As before, this release is more of a
   maintenance release addressing a number of small bugs, nuisances
   or documentation issues without adding any major new features.

   Rcpp has become the most popular way of enhancing GNU R with C or
   C++ code. As of today, 615 packages on CRAN depend on Rcpp for
   making analytical code go faster and further. That is up by more
   than sixty packages from the last release in January!

   As during the last few releases, we have new first-time
   contributors. Kirill Mueller extended Nullable<> to const objects.
   James "coatless" Balamuta helped with a much-needed update to the
   Rcpp FAQ concerning recommendations for OS X installations. Colin
   Gillespie corrected another (small) vignette issue. Contributions
   from the rest of the gang as well as by-now regular contributors
   such as Nathan or Dan are detailed below.

    Changes in Rcpp version 0.12.4 (2016-03-22)

       * Changes in Rcpp API:

            * New accessors as() and clone() were added to the
              Nullable class (Dan in PR #423 closing #421)

            * The Nullable<>::operator SEXP() and Nullable<>::get()
              now also work for const objects (Kirill Mueller in PR
              #417).

            * A subsetting error was fixed (Qiang via #432 closing
              #431).

       * Changes in Rcpp Sugar:

            * Added new Sugar function median() (Nathan in PR #425
              closing #424)

            * Added new Sugar function cbind() (Nathan in PR #447
              closing #407)

       * Changes in Rcpp Attributes:

            * A plugin for C++14 was added (Dan in PR #427)

       * Changes in Rcpp Documentation:

            * An entry was added to the Rcpp-FAQ vignette describing
              the required packages for vignette building (#422).

            * Use on OS X was further detailed (James Balamuta in
              #433 with further review by Bob Rudis).

            * An entry was added concerning the hard-code limit of
              arguments to some constructor and function (cf #435).

            * The Rcpp-FAQ vignette now contains a table of content.

            * Typos and indentation were corrected in the Rcpp Sugar
              vignette (#445 by Colin Gillespie).

   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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