RcppAnnoy 0.0.23 on CRAN: Several Updates
A new release, now at version 0.0.22, of RcppAnnoy has arrived on CRAN, just a little short of two years since the previous release.
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 Spotify music discovery algorithm. It had all the buzzwords already a decade ago: it is one of the algorithms behind (drum roll …) vector search as it finds approximate matches very quickly and also allows to persist the data.
This release contains three contributed pull requests covering a new
metric, a new demo and quieter compilation, some changes to
documentation and last but not least general polish including letting
the vignette now use the Rcpp::asis builder.
Details of the release follow based on the NEWS file.
Changes in version 0.0.23 (2026-01-12)
Add dot product distance metrics (Benjamin James in #78)
Apply small polish to the documentation (Dirk closing #79)
A new
demo()has been added (Samuel Granjeaud in #79)Switch to Authors@R in DESCRIPTION
Several updates to continuous integration and README.md
Small enhancements to package help files
Updates to vignettes and references
Vignette now uses
Rcpp::asisbuilder (Dirk in #80)Switch one macro to a function to avoid a compiler nag (Amos Elberg in #81)
Courtesy of my CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report for this release.
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