Thu, 06 Feb 2025

RcppArmadillo 14.2.3-1 on CRAN: Small Upstream Fix

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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) 1215 other packages on CRAN, downloaded 38.2 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 612 times according to Google Scholar.

Conrad released a minor version 14.2.3 yesterday. As it has been two months since the last minor release, we prepared a new version for CRAN too which arrived there early this morning.

The changes since the last CRAN release are summarised below.

Changes in RcppArmadillo version 14.2.3-1 (2025-02-05)

  • Upgraded to Armadillo release 14.2.3 (Smooth Caffeine)

    • Minor fix for declaration of xSYCON and xHECON functions in LAPACK

    • Fix for rare corner-case in reshape()

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.

This post by Dirk Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box blog. If you like this or other open-source work I do, you can sponsor me at GitHub.

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