RcppAnnoy 0.0.18: Tweaks
A new maintenance release, now at version 0.0.18, of RcppAnnoy is now on CRAN. RcppAnnoy is the Rcpp-based R integration of the nifty Annoy library by Erik Bernhardsson. Annoy is a small and lightweight C++ template header library for very fast approximate nearest neighbours—originally developed to drive the famous Spotify music discovery algorithm.
This release is follow-up to release 0.0.17 which was made four weeks ago, and which brought the new upstream release 1.17 of Annoy. We now have an updated upstream with a PR by Aaron aiming for improved control of RNG seeding to ensure better reproducibility, along with extended tests and new helpers for RcppAnnoy and Annoy version numbers. The release was once again coordinated with Annoy and James whose BiocNeighbors and uwot packages both consume the Annoy header library shipped here.
Detailed changes follow below.
Changes in version 0.0.18 (2020-12-15)
Small tweaks to threading policy header defines (Dirk closing #65)
Vignette code is again compiled during testing (Aaron Lum and Dirk in #66 addressing #64)
Upstream code (with Aaron's PR) was synchronized once more (Dirk in #67)
A new helper function was added to report the Annoy version (Aaron in #68)
Courtesy of my CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report for this release.
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