A new release 0.3.3.9.3 of RcppEigen arrived on CRAN moments ago (and just went to Debian). Eigen is a C++ template library for linear algebra: matrices, vectors, numerical solvers, and related algorithms.
This update is again mostly maintenance. To accomodate one small aspect of the Fortran interface, we now require R 3.6.0 or later. Jonah Gabry spotted a really old typo and fixed it. The fastLm support code now uses the unabbreviated df.residual. We accomodated clang-15 in one signature as is common with many recent uploads, and also updated one aspect of GitHub Actions.
And once again as we said for the last four releases:
One additional and recent change was the accomodation of a recent CRAN Policy change to not allow
gccorclangto mess with diagnostic messages. A word of caution: this may make your compilation of packages using RcppEigen very noisy so consider adding-Wno-ignored-attributesto the compiler flags added in your~/.R/Makevars.
We still find this requirement rather annoying. Eigen is only usable if you set, say,
-Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-parentheses -Wno-ignored-attributes -Wno-unused-functionasoptions in~/.R/Makevars`. But CRAN makes the rules. Maybe if a few of us gently and politely nudge them they may relent one day. One can only hope.
The complete NEWS file entry follows.
Changes in RcppEigen version 0.3.3.9.3 (2022-11-04)
The dependency on R is now versioned to 3.6.0 or later for support for
USE_FC_LEN_Tfrom Fortran.An old example typo was corrected (Jonah Gabry in #114).
The
fastLmmethods now referencedf.residualby its full name (Closes #115).A function prototype was updated for
clang-15.GitHub Actions were updated to checkout version 3.
Courtesy of CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report for the most recent release.
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