Rcpp 0.12.4: And another one

The fourth update in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp has now arrived on the CRAN network for GNU R, and has just been pushed to Debian as well. This follows four days of idleness in the incoming/ directory: Word is that the tireless CRAN maintainers were traveling and only covering simpler packages. The 0.12.4 release follows the 0.12.0 release from late July, the 0.12.1 release in September, the 0.12.2 release in November, and the 0.12.3 release in January — making it the eight release at the steady bi-montly release frequency. As before, this release is more of a maintenance release addressing a number of small bugs, nuisances or documentation issues without adding any major new features.

Rcpp has become the most popular way of enhancing GNU R with C or C++ code. As of today, 615 packages on CRAN depend on Rcpp for making analytical code go faster and further. That is up by more than sixty packages from the last release in January!

As during the last few releases, we have new first-time contributors. Kirill Mueller extended Nullable to const objects. James “coatless” Balamuta helped with a much-needed update to the Rcpp FAQ concerning recommendations for OS X installations. Colin Gillespie corrected another (small) vignette issue. Contributions from the rest of the gang as well as by-now regular contributors such as Nathan or Dan are detailed below.

Changes in Rcpp version 0.12.4 (2016-03-22)

• Changes in Rcpp API:

  • New accessors as() and clone() were added to the Nullable class (Dan in PR #423 closing #421)

  • The Nullable::operator SEXP() and Nullable::get() now also work for const objects (Kirill Mueller in PR #417).

  • A subsetting error was fixed (Qiang via #432 closing #431).

• Changes in Rcpp Sugar:

  • Added new Sugar function median() (Nathan in PR #425 closing #424)

  • Added new Sugar function cbind() …read more

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