The second release of RcppFastFloat is now on CRAN. The package wraps fastfloat, another nice library by Daniel Lemire who showed in a recent arXiv paper that one can convert character representations of ‘numbers’ into floating point at rates at or exceeding one gigabyte per second.
Thanks to Brendan, this release adds a helper function as.double2() modeled after the base R function but using, of course, the features from fast_float in RcppFastFloat.
Release notes follow.
Changes in version 0.0.2 (2021-02-13)
- New function
as.double2()demonstratingfast_float(Brendan in #1)
Courtesy of my CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report for this release.
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