A new release, now at 0.2.1, of the RcppSMC package arrived on CRAN earlier this afternoon (and once again as a very quick pretest-publish within minutes of submission).
RcppSMC provides Rcpp-based bindings to R for the Sequential Monte Carlo Template Classes (SMCTC) by Adam Johansen described in his JSS article. Sequential Monte Carlo is also referred to as Particle Filter in some contexts .
This releases contains a few bug fixes and one minor rearrangment allowing header-only use of the package from other packages, or via a Rcpp plugin. Many of these changes were driven by new contributors, which is a wonderful thing to see for any open source project! So thanks to everybody who helped with. Full details below.
Changes in RcppSMC version 0.2.1 (2018-03-18)
The sampler now has a copy constructor and assignment overload (Brian Ni in #28).
The SMC library component can now be used in header-only mode (Martin Lysy in #29).
Plugin support was added for use via
cppFunction()and other Rcpp Attributes (or inline functions (Dirk in #30).The sampler copy ctor/assigment operator is now copy-constructor safe (Martin Lysy In #32).
A bug in state variance calculation was corrected (Adam in #36 addressing #34).
History getter methods are now more user-friendly (Tiberiu Lepadatu in #37).
Use of
powwith atomic types was disambiguated tostd::pow) to help the Solaris compiler (Dirk in #42).
Courtesy of CRANberries, there is a diffstat report for this release.
More information is on the RcppSMC page. Issues and bugreports should go to the GitHub issue tracker.
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