Rcpp 0.9.15
Rcpp release 0.9.15 is now on CRAN and being uploaded to Debian.

Martin Morgan provided a clever fix for a header search needed between clang++ (especially on OS X) and g++ (which still provided libstdc++ and headers for clang++). This should hopefully put the clang issues to bed. Ben North noticed an unprotected string conversion when exception messages are turned into R errors which got fixed, and I expanded the coverage of Date (and Datetime) types to deal properly with non-finite values NA, NaN and Inf.

The complete NEWS entry for 0.9.15 is below; more details are in the ChangeLog file in the package and on the Rcpp Changelog page.

Changes in Rcpp version 0.9.15 (2012-10-13)

• Untangling the clang++ build issue about the location of the exceptions header by directly checking for the include file – an approach provided by Martin Morgan in a kindly contributed patch as unit tests for them.

• The Date and Datetime types now correctly handles NA, NaN and Inf representation; the Date type switched to an internal representation via double

• Added Date and Datetime unit tests for the new features

• An additional PROTECT was added for parsing exception messages before returning them to R, following a report by Ben North

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