[Rcpp-devel] [ANN] Rcpp 0.12.14

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Rcpp 0.12.14 arrived on CRAN yesterday.  The announcement is at

   http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2017/11/24#rcpp_0.12.14

and (without links) below.

Cheers, Dirk


  Fri, 24 Nov 2017

  Rcpp 0.12.14: Some deprecation and minor updates

   The fourteenth release in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp landed on CRAN
   yesterday after a somewhat longer-than-usual gestation period (and word is
   it may have been due to some unrelated disturbances from lots of changes
   within the main r-devel build).

   This release follows the 0.12.0 release from July 2016, the 0.12.1 release
   in September 2016, the 0.12.2 release in November 2016, the 0.12.3 release
   in January 2017, the 0.12.4 release in March 2016, the 0.12.5 release in
   May 2016, the 0.12.6 release in July 2016, the 0.12.7 release in September
   2016, the 0.12.8 release in November 2016, the 0.12.9 release in January
   2017, the 0.12.10.release in March 2017, the 0.12.11.release in May 2017,
   the 0.12.12 release in July 2017 and the 0.12.13.release in late September
   2017 making it the eighteenth release at the steady and predictable
   bi-montly release frequency.

   Rcpp has become the most popular way of enhancing GNU R with C or C++
   code. As of today, 1246 packages (and hence 77 more since the last
   release) on CRAN depend on Rcpp for making analytical code go faster and
   further, along with another 91 in BioConductor.

   This release is relatively minor compared to other releases, but follows
   through on the deprecattion of the old vectors for Date and Datetime
   (which were terrible: I was influenced by the vector design in QuantLib at
   the time and didn't really understand yet how a SEXP vector should work)
   we announced with Rcpp 0.12.8 a year ago. So now the new vectors are the
   default, but you can flip back if you need to with #define.

   Otherwise Dan rounded a corner with the improved iterators he contributed,
   and Kirill improved the output stream implementation suppressing a warning
   with newer compilers.

  Changes in Rcpp version 0.12.14 (2017-11-17)

       * Changes in Rcpp API:

            * New const iterators functions cbegin() and cend() added to
              MatrixRow as well (Dan Dillon in #750).

            * The Rostream object now contains a Buffer rather than
              allocating one (Kirill Müller in #763).

            * New DateVector and DatetimeVector classes are now the default
              fully deprecating the old classes as announced one year ago.

       * Changes in Rcpp Package:

            * DESCRIPTION file now list doi information per CRAN suggestion.
       * Changes in Rcpp Documentation:

            * Update CITATION file with doi information and PeerJ preprint.

   Thanks to CRANberries, you can also look at a diff to the previous
   release. As always, 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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