RcppArmadillo 14.0.2-1 on CRAN: Updates
Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra and scientific computing. It aims towards a good balance between speed and ease of use, has a syntax deliberately close to Matlab, and is useful for algorithm development directly in C++, or quick conversion of research code into production environments. RcppArmadillo integrates this library with the R environment and language–and is widely used by (currently) 1164 other packages on CRAN, downloaded 36.1 million times (per the partial logs from the cloud mirrors of CRAN), and the CSDA paper (preprint / vignette) by Conrad and myself has been cited 595 times according to Google Scholar.
Conrad released two
small incremental releases to version
14.0.0. We did not immediately bring these to CRAN as we have to be mindful of
the desired upload cadence of ‘once every one or two months’. But as
14.0.2 has been stable for a few weeks, we now decided to bring it to CRAN. Changes since the last CRAN release are summarised below,
and overall fairly minimal. On the package side, we reorder what
citation() returns, and now follow CRAN requirements via
Authors@R.
Changes in RcppArmadillo version 14.0.2-1 (2024-09-11)
Upgraded to Armadillo release 14.0.2 (Stochastic Parrot)
Optionally use C++20 memory alignment
Minor corrections for several corner-cases
The order of items displayed by
citation()is reversed (Conrad in #449)The DESCRIPTION file now uses an Authors@R field with ORCID IDs
Courtesy of my 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 Rcpp R-Forge page.
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