News for Package RInside

Changes in RInside version 0.2.19 (2025-04-22)

• The qt example now supports Qt6 (Joris Goosen in #54 closing #53)

• CMake support was refined for more recent versions (Joris Goosen in #55)

• The sandboxed-server example now states more clearly that RINSIDE_CALLBACKS needs to be defined

• More routine update to package and continuous integration.

• Some now-obsolete checks for C++11 have been removed

• When parsing environment variables, use of double quotes is now supported'p

Changes in RInside version 0.2.18 (2023-02-01)

• The random number initialization was updated as in R.

• The main REPL is not running via 'run_Rmainloop()'.

• Small routine update to package and continuous integration.

Changes in RInside version 0.2.17 (2022-03-31)

• A Windows-only patch for R 4.2.0 kindly provided by Tomas Kalibera was applied, and also conditioned on R (>= 4.2.0)

• Continuous Integration setup was updated and now uses r-ci.

• Several updates were made to README.md (badges etc) and DESCRIPTION

Changes in RInside version 0.2.16 (2020-03-12)

• RInside is now embeddable (with a reduced interface) from C applications thanks to Lance Bachmeier (who is now co-author) plus some polish by Dirk in #43)

• Added R_SESSION_INIIALIZED to list of excluded variables.

• Added simple diagnostics function to have a registered function.

Changes in RInside version 0.2.15 (2019-03-06)

• Improved Windows build support by copying getenv("R_HOME") result and improving backslash handling in environemt variable setting (Jonathon Love in #27 and #28)

• Improved Windows build support by quote-protecting Rscript path in Makevars.win (François-David Collin in #33)

• A URL was corrected in README.md (Zé Vinícius in #34).

• Temporary SEXP objects are handled more carefully at initialization to satisfy 'rchk' (Dirk in #36)

Changes in RInside version 0.2.14 (2017-04-28)

• Interactive mode can use readline REPL (Łukasz Łaniewski-Wołłk in #25, and Dirk in #26)

• Windows macros checks now uses _WIN32 (Kevin Ushey in #22)

• The wt example now links with libboost_system

• The Makevars file is now more robist (Mattias Ellert in #21)

• A problem with empty environment variable definitions on Windows was addressed (Jeroen Ooms in #17 addressing #16)

• HAVE_UINTPTR_T is defined only if not already defined

• Travis CI is now driven via run.sh from our forked r-travis

Changes in RInside version 0.2.13 (2015-05-20)

• Added workaround for a bug in R 3.2.0: by including the file RInterface.h only once we do not getting linker errors due to multiple definitions of R_running_as_main_program (which is now addressed in R-patched as well).

• Small improvements to the Travis CI script.

Changes in RInside version 0.2.12 (2015-01-27)

• Several new examples have been added (with most of the work done by Christian Authmann):

  • standard/rinside_sample15.cpp shows how to create a lattice plot (following a StackOverflow question)

  • standard/rinside_sample16.cpp shows object wrapping, and exposing of C++ functions

  • standard/rinside_sample17.cpp does the same via C++11

  • sandboxed_servers/ adds an entire framework of client/server communication outside the main process (but using a subset of supported types)

• standard/rinside_module_sample9.cpp was repaired following a fix to InternalFunction in Rcpp

• For the seven example directories which contain a Makefile, the Makefile was renamed GNUmakefile to please R CMD check as well as the CRAN Maintainers.

Changes in RInside version 0.2.11 (2014-02-11)

• Updated for Rcpp 0.11.0:

  • Updated initialization by assigning global environment via pointer only after R itself has been initialized – with special thanks to Kevin Ushey for the fix

  • Updated DESCRIPTION with Imports: instead of Depends:

  • Added correspondiing importFrom(Rcpp, evalCpp) to NAMESPACE

  • Noted in all inst/examples/*/Makefile that Rcpp no longer requires a library argument, but left code for backwards compatibility in case 0.11.0 is not yet installed.

• Added --vanilla --slave to default arguments for R initialization

• Added a few more explicit #include statements in the qt example which Qt 5.1 now appears to require – with thanks to Spencer Behling for the patch

• Added new MPI example with worker functions and RInside instance, kindly contributed by Nicholas Pezolano and Martin Morgan

Changes in RInside version 0.2.10 (2012-12-05)

• Adjusted to change in R which requires turning checking of the stack limit off in order to allow for access from multiple threads as in the Wt examples. As there are have been no side-effects, this is enabled by default on all platforms (with the exception of Windows).

• Added new ‘threads’ example directory with a simple example based on a Boost mutex example.

• Disabled two examples (passing an external function down) which do not currently work; external pointer use should still work.

Changes in RInside version 0.2.9 (2012-11-04)

• Applied (modified) patch by Theodore Lytras which lets RInside recover from some parsing errors and makes RInside applications more tolerant of errors

• Added non-throwing variants of parseEval() and parseEvalQ()

• Modified Qt and Wt examples of density estimation applications to be much more resilient to bad user input

• On Windows, have RInside use R's get_R_HOME() function to get R_HOME value from registry if not set by user

• Added note to examples/standard/Makefile.win that R_HOME may need to be set to run the executables – so either export your local value, or re-install RInside from source to have it reflected in the library build of libRinside

• Updated CMake build support for standard, armadillo and eigen

• Improved CMake builds of examples/standard, examples/eigen and examples/armadillo by detecting architecture

Changes in RInside version 0.2.8 (2012-09-07)

• Added CMake build support for armadillo and eigen examples, once again kindly contributed by Peter Aberline

• Corrected Windows package build to always generate a 64 bit static library too

• Updated package build to no longer require configure / configure.win to update the two header file supplying compile-time information; tightened build dependencies on headers in Makevars / Makevars.win

• Improved examples/standard/Makefile.win by detecting architecture

Changes in RInside version 0.2.7 (2012-08-12)

• New fifth examples subdirectory 'armadillo' with two new examples showing how to combine RInside with RcppArmadillo

• New sixth examples subdirectory 'eigen' with two new examples showing how to combine RInside with RcppEigen

• Prettified the Wt example 'web application' with CSS use, also added and XML file with simple headers and description text

• New example rinside_sample12 motivated by StackOverflow question on using sample() from C

• Added CMake build support on Windows for the examples

Changes in RInside version 0.2.6 (2012-01-11)

• Correct Windows initialization by not using Rprintf in internal console writer, with thanks to both James Bates and John Brzustowski

• Update RNG seeding (used by tmpnam et al) to same scheme used by R since 2.14.0: blending both millisecond time and process id

• Added CMake build support for all four example directories as kindly provided by Peter Aberline; this helps when writing RInside code inside of IDEs such as Eclipse, KDevelop or Code::Blocks

• Small update to standard examples Makefile for Windows permitting to explicitly set i386 or x64 as a build architecture

Changes in RInside version 0.2.5 (2011-12-07)

• Applied (somewhat simplified) patch by James Bates which restores RInside to working on Windows – with a big Thank You! to James for fixing a long-standing bug we inadvertendly introduced right after 0.2.0 almost two years ago

• New example embedding R inside a Wt (aka Webtoolkit, pronounced 'witty') application, mirroring the previous Qt application

• Qt example qtdensity now uses the new svg() device in base R; removed test for cairoDevice package as well as fallback png code

• Very minor fix to qmake.pro file for Qt app correcting link order

Changes in RInside version 0.2.4 (2011-04-24)

• Minor code cleanups in initialization code

• New example embedding R inside a Qt application, along with pro file for Qt's qmake providing a complete simple C++ GUI application

• New examples rinside_sample{10,11} based on questions on the r-help and r-devel mailing list

• Some improvements and simplifications throughout examples/standard as well as examples/mpi/

• Added this NEWS files – with entries below summarised from ChangeLog and the corresponding blog posts

Changes in RInside version 0.2.3 (2010-08-06)

• New example rinside_sample9 on how to expose C++ to embedded R

• New example rinside_module_sample0 to show module access from RInside

• Simplified rinside_sample3 and rinside_sample4

• Some code cleanup to help Solaris builds

• Implicit use of new Proxy class with operator T(), see rinside_sample8

Changes in RInside version 0.2.2 (2010-03-22)

• New operator[](string) lets RInside act as proxy to R's global environment so that we can R["x"] = 10 to assign; all the actual work is done by Rcpp::Environment

• No longer ship doxygen-generated docs in build

• Use std::string for all arguments inside throw() to help Windows build

• Default to static linking on OS X and Windows just like Rcpp does

• parseEval() now returns SEXP and has just a string argument for more functional use; it and void sibbling parseEvalQ() now throw exections

• rinside_sample{2,4,5} updated accordingly

• Two new 'R inside an MPI app' examples contributed by Jianping Hua

• Also added two C++ variants of the C examples for RInside and MPI

• rinside_sample8 updated with parseEval changes

• Internal MemBuf class simplified via STL std::string

• Autoload simplied via the new Rcpp API

• Added default constructor for RInside

• Retire assign(vector<vector<double> >) via template specialisation

• Include Rcpp.h; switch to Rf_ prefixed R API to avoid Redefine macros

• Windows version currently segfaults on startup

Changes in RInside version 0.2.1 (2010-01-06)

• Startup now defaults to FALSE, no longer call Rf_KillAllDevices

• Some minor build and code fixes for Windows

Changes in RInside version 0.2.0 (2009-12-20)

• Initial Windows support, with thanks to Richard Holbrey for both the initial push and a setenv() implementation

• Added Makefile.win for build with the MinGW toolchain to src/ and examples/

• Some improvements to destructor per example in Writing R Extensions

• New rinside_sample5 based on r-devel post

Changes in RInside version 0.1.1 (2009-02-19)

• The examples/ Makefile now sets $R_HOME via 'R RHOME', and also employs $R_ARCH for arch-dependent headers – with thanks for Jeff, Jan and Simon

• Added THANKS file to give recognition to those who helped RInside along

• Added rinside_sample4 as another example based on an r-devel question

Changes in RInside version 0.1.0 (2009-02-19)

• Initial CRAN release

• Improved build process

• Added doxygen generated documentation

• Added two more example

Changes in RInside version 0.0.1 (2009-07-19)

• Corrected error in memory buffer class with thanks to Miguel Lechón for a finding the issue and sending a patch

• Added two regression test examples to demonstrate bug and fix

• Minor code cleanups

• Initial version in SVN at R-Forge