Thu, 21 Aug 2014

RcppEigen 0.3.2.2.0

A new upstream release of the Eigen C++ template library for linear algebra was released a few days ago. And Yixuan Qiu did some really nice work rolling this into a new RcppEigen released and then sent me a nice pull requent. The new version is now on CRAN, and I will prepare a Debian in a moment too.

Upstream changes for Eigen are summarized in their changelog. On the RcppEigen side, Yixuan also rolled in some more changes on as<>() and wrap() converters as noted below in the NEWS entry.

Changes in RcppEigen version 0.3.2.2.0 (2014-08-19)

• Updated to version 3.2.2 of Eigen

• Rcpp::as() now supports the conversion from R vector to “row array”, i.e., Eigen::Array<T, 1, Eigen::Dynamic>

• Rcpp::as() now supports the conversion from dgRMatrix (row oriented sparse matrices, defined in Matrix package) to Eigen::MappedSparseMatrix<T, Eigen::RowMajor>

• Conversion from R matrix to Eigen::MatrixXd and Eigen::ArrayXXd using Rcpp::as() no longer gives compilation errors

Courtesy of CRANberries, there are diffstat reports for the most recent release.

Questions, comments etc about RcppEigen should go to the rcpp-devel mailing list off the R-Forge page.

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