That version of RcppArmadillo is now on CRAN. Dirk
On 21 April 2018 at 12:52, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | Conrad has released Armadillo 8.500, and I wrapped this up as version | 0.8.500.0 of RcppArmadillo which had seen quite some testing via two | pre-releases with proper reverse depensd checks. | | There are a number of nice new things in here, particularly for sparse | matrices, and some other Armadillo changes as well as setup improvements | (with special thanks to Keith O'Hara who has been very helpful). See below | for fuller details. | | The release is in the queue at CRAN, but as RcppArmadillo is used by over 460 | packages, CRAN will do some testing too -- and then we have of course the | pending R 3.5.0 release on Monday. So this may take a moment to get released | at CRAN. | | But as this release is also available ready via GitHub and the RcppCore drat | repo, you can install it now from the drat repo at | | http://rcppcore.github.io/drat/ | | via a simple | | drat::addRepo("RcppCore") | install.packages("RcppArmadillo") | | or even just | | install.packages("RcppArmadillo", type="source", | repo="https://RcppCore.github.io/drat") | | Thanks, Dirk | | | | ### Changes in RcppArmadillo version 0.8.500.0 (2018-04-21) | | - Upgraded to Armadillo release 8.500 (Caffeine Raider) | | - faster handling of sparse matrices by `kron()` and `repmat()` | | - faster transpose of sparse matrices | | - faster element access in sparse matrices | | - faster row iterators for sparse matrices | | - faster handling of compound expressions by `trace()` | | - more efficient handling of aliasing in submatrix views | | - expanded `normalise()` to handle sparse matrices | | - expanded `.transform()` and `.for_each()` to handle sparse | matrices | | - added `reverse()` for reversing order of elements | | - added `repelem()` for replicating elements | | - added `roots()` for finding the roots of a polynomial | | - Fewer LAPACK compile-time guards are used, new unit tests for | underlying features have been added (Keith O'Hara in | [\#211](https://github.com/RcppCore/RcppArmadillo/pull/211) | addressing | [\#207](https://github.com/RcppCore/RcppArmadillo/issues/207)). | | - The configure check for LAPACK features has been updated accordingly | (Keith O'Hara in | [\#214](https://github.com/RcppCore/RcppArmadillo/pull/214) | addressing | [\#213](https://github.com/RcppCore/RcppArmadillo/issues/213)). | | - The compile-time check for `g++` is now more robust to minimal shell | versions | ([\#217](https://github.com/RcppCore/RcppArmadillo/pull/217) | addressing | [\#216](https://github.com/RcppCore/RcppArmadillo/issues/216)). | | - Compiler tests to were added for macOS (Keith O'Hara in | [\#219](https://github.com/RcppCore/RcppArmadillo/pull/219)). | | | | -- | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | _______________________________________________ | Rcpp-devel mailing list | Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org | https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel