RcppArmadillo 0.12.8.0.0 on CRAN: New Upstream, Interface Polish
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) 1119 other packages on CRAN, downloaded 32.5 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 575 times according to Google Scholar.
This release brings a new (stable) upstream (minor) release Armadillo 12.8.0 prepared by Conrad two days ago. We, as usual, prepared a release candidate which we tested against the over 1100 CRAN packages using RcppArmadillo. This found no issues, which was confirmed by CRAN once we uploaded and so it arrived as a new release today in a fully automated fashion.
We also made a small change that had been prepared by GitHub issue #400: a few internal header files that were cluttering the top-level of the include directory have been moved to internal directories. The standard header is of course unaffected, and the set of ‘full / light / lighter / lightest’ headers (matching we did a while back in Rcpp) also continue to work as one expects. This change was also tested in a full reverse-dependency check in January but had not been released to CRAN yet.
The set of changes since the last CRAN release follows.
Changes in RcppArmadillo version 0.12.8.0.0 (2024-02-06)
Upgraded to Armadillo release 12.8.0 (Cortisol Injector)
Faster detection of symmetric expressions by
pinv()andrank()Expanded
shift()to handle sparse matricesExpanded
conv_tofor more flexible conversions between sparse and dense matricesAdded
cbrt()More compact representation of integers when saving matrices in CSV format
Five non-user facing top-level include files have been removed (#432 closing #400 and building on #395 and #396)
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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