[Rcpp-devel] [Pre-ANN] RcppArmadillo GitHub release

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

A new interim version 0.8.200.1.0 of RcppArmadillo is available via the
GitHub drat repo for RcppCore. It contains Conrad's Armadillo version 8.200.1
as well as a minor fix on our side suppressing messages about missing
OpenMP. [ In short, when you use C++11 OpenMP is now on by default. But most
src/Makevars do not set -fopenmp so the support incomplete. The message is
too noisy though, so we now suppress it. ] The skeleton package is also
beefed up a little.

You can install from the drat repo at

http://rcppcore.github.io/drat/

via a simple

drat::addRepo("RcppCore")
install.packages("RcppArmadillo")

It has been tested against all 411 reverse depends on RcppArmadillo; no
errors have been found. It should be as good as a CRAN release, but we aim
to keep the RcppArmadillo update cadence to about six a year.

Thanks, Dirk