[Rcpp-devel] Rcpp 0.8.4

Release 0.8.4 is now on CRAN (with a little delay due to vacations, and we
even got lucky in getting it out now rather than at the end).  The relevant
NEWS entry is below.

0.8.4   2010-07-09

   o   new sugar vector functions: rep, rep_len, rep_each, rev, head, tail,
       diag

   o   sugar has been extended to matrices: The Matrix class now extends
the
       Matrix_Base template that implements CRTP. Currently sugar functions
       for matrices are: outer, col, row, lower_tri, upper_tri, diag

   o   The unit tests have been reorganised into fewer files with one call
       each to cxxfunction() (covering multiple tests) resulting in a
       significant speedup

   o   The Date class now uses the same mktime() replacement that R uses
       (based on original code from the timezone library by Arthur Olson)
       permitting wide date ranges on all operating systems

   o   The FastLM/example has been updated, a new benchmark based on the
       historical Longley data set has been added

   o   RcppStringVector now uses std::vector<std::string> internally

   o   setting the .Data slot of S4 objects did not work properly


--
 Regards, Dirk

Currently Rcpp 0.8.4 builds cleanly at CRAN under Windows only

and correspondingly, the dependent package cxxPack now fails under
Windows only (not able to find header files?).

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org
<mailto:edd at debian.org>> wrote:


    Release 0.8.4 is now on CRAN (with a little delay due to vacations,
    and we
    even got lucky in getting it out now rather than at the end).  The
    relevant
    NEWS entry is below.

    0.8.4   2010-07-09

        o   new sugar vector functions: rep, rep_len, rep_each, rev,
    head, tail,
            diag

        o   sugar has been extended to matrices: The Matrix class now
    extends the
            Matrix_Base template that implements CRTP. Currently sugar
    functions
            for matrices are: outer, col, row, lower_tri, upper_tri, diag

        o   The unit tests have been reorganised into fewer files with
    one call
            each to cxxfunction() (covering multiple tests) resulting in a
            significant speedup

        o   The Date class now uses the same mktime() replacement that R
    uses
            (based on original code from the timezone library by Arthur
    Olson)
            permitting wide date ranges on all operating systems

        o   The FastLM/example has been updated, a new benchmark based
    on the
            historical Longley data set has been added

        o   RcppStringVector now uses std::vector<std::string> internally

        o   setting the .Data slot of S4 objects did not work properly


    --
      Regards, Dirk

Le 16/07/10 01:18, Dominick Samperi a ?crit :

Currently Rcpp 0.8.4 builds cleanly at CRAN under Windows only

This is as close to nonsense as it can be, please stop this quest of
yours to advertise problems that do not exist and RTFM

we do get a trivial warning on linux which has already been fixed, and
0.8.4 has not been cran processed under OSX but we have evidence that it
works. solaris is a different matter.

and correspondingly, the dependent package cxxPack now fails under
Windows only (not able to find header files?).

The author of that package chose to not follow the documented way to
pull in the headers , which is as I told you before to add

LinkingTo: Rcpp

in the DESCRIPTION file

Also, see this thread on R-devel on how to invoke Rscript from Makevars

correctly, which incidently is also documented in the "Rcpp-extending"
vignette.

Romain

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org
<mailto:edd at debian.org>> wrote:


Release 0.8.4 is now on CRAN (with a little delay due to vacations,
and we
even got lucky in getting it out now rather than at the end). The
relevant
NEWS entry is below.

0.8.4 2010-07-09

o new sugar vector functions: rep, rep_len, rep_each, rev,
head, tail,
diag

o sugar has been extended to matrices: The Matrix class now
extends the
Matrix_Base template that implements CRTP. Currently sugar
functions
for matrices are: outer, col, row, lower_tri, upper_tri, diag

o The unit tests have been reorganised into fewer files with
one call
each to cxxfunction() (covering multiple tests) resulting in a
significant speedup

o The Date class now uses the same mktime() replacement that R
uses
(based on original code from the timezone library by Arthur
Olson)
permitting wide date ranges on all operating systems

o The FastLM/example has been updated, a new benchmark based
on the
historical Longley data set has been added

o RcppStringVector now uses std::vector<std::string> internally

o setting the .Data slot of S4 objects did not work properly


--
Regards, Dirk

Le 16/07/10 01:18, Dominick Samperi a ?crit :

 Currently Rcpp 0.8.4 builds cleanly at CRAN under Windows only

This is as close to nonsense as it can be, please stop this quest of yours
to advertise problems that do not exist and RTFM

The author of that package chose to not follow the documented way to pull
in the headers , which is as I told you before to add

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 4:12 AM, Romain Francois
<romain at r-enthusiasts.com <mailto:romain at r-enthusiasts.com>> wrote:

    Le 16/07/10 01:18, Dominick Samperi a ?crit :

        Currently Rcpp 0.8.4 builds cleanly at CRAN under Windows only


    This is as close to nonsense as it can be, please stop this quest of
    yours to advertise problems that do not exist and RTFM


I am only reporting what CRAN shows

(does it publish nonsense?). My only
"quest" is to
prevent crashes of my work every time Rcpp does a release. I decided to
use Rcpp because
I thought we could cooperate on testing.

    The author of that package chose to not follow the documented way to
    pull in the headers , which is as I told you before to add


The "documented way" is a moving target, and the only defense is to test
before doing a release.
(both unit testing and integration testing).

Since you "forgot" to add the GNU make system dependency I guess you
could use a little
review of the "documented way" as well.