Tue, 09 Jun 2020

RcppArmadillo 0.9.900.1.0

Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra aiming towards a good balance between speed and ease of use with a syntax deliberately close to a Matlab. RcppArmadillo integrates this library with the R environment and language–and is widely used by (currently) 727 other packages on CRAN.

Conrad recently released a new upstream version 9.900.1 of Armadillo which we packaged and tested as usual first as a ‘release candidate’ build and then as the release. As usual, logs from reverse-depends runs are in the rcpp-logs repo.

Apart from the new upstream release, we updated Travis use, ornamented the README a little, and smoothed over a rough corner from the recent R 4.0.0 release. All changes in the new release are noted below.

Changes in RcppArmadillo version 0.9.900.1.0 (2020-06-08)

• Upgraded to Armadillo release 9.900.1 (Nocturnal Misbehaviour)

  • faster solve() for under/over-determined systems

  • faster eig_gen() and eig_pair() for large matrices

  • expanded eig_gen() and eig_pair() to optionally provide left and right eigenvectors

• Switch Travis CI testing to R 4.0.0, use bionic as base distro and test R 3.6.3 and 4.0.0 in a matrix (Dirk in #298).

• Add two badges to README for indirect use and the CSDA paper.

• Adapt RcppArmadillo.package.skeleton() to a change in R 4.0.0 affecting what it exports in NAMESPACE.

Courtesy of CRANberries, there is a diffstat report relative to previous release. More detailed information is on the RcppArmadillo page. Questions, comments etc should go to the rcpp-devel mailing list off the R-Forge page.

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Rcpp Webinar Recording Available

As announced in a few tweets leading up to it, I took the date of what would have been the annual R/Finance conference as an opportunity to hold the one-hour tutorial / workshop with introductory Rcpp material which I often present on the first morning preceding the conference as a self-organized webinar. The live-streaming worked actually reasonably well via obs to youtube (even though the comprehensive software by the latter complained at times about insufficient bitstream rates–the joys of living with a (near) monopolistic broadband provider whom I should leave for fiber…). Apparently around seventy people connected to the stream—which is more than we usually have in the seminar room at UIC for the R/Finance morning.

The recording is now available here, and has already been seen over 200 times:

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