A new released of BH is now on CRAN. BH provides a large part of the Boost C++ libraries as a set of template headers for use by R and Rcpp.
This release both upgrades the version of Boost to the current release, and adds a new library: Boost MultiPrecision .
A brief summary of changes from the NEWS file is below.
Changes in version 1.58.0-1 (2015-05-21)
Upgraded to Boost 1.58 installed directly from upstream source
Added Boost MultiPrecision as requested in GH ticket #12 based on rcpp-devel request by Jordi Molins Coronado
Courtesy of CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report for the most recent release.
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