Upstream changes:
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() (Nathan in PR #447 closing #407)
Changes in Rcpp Attributes:
A plugin for C++14 was added (Dan in PR #427)
Changes in Rcpp Documentation:
An entry was added to the Rcpp-FAQ vignette describing the required packages for vignette building (#422).
Use on OS X was further detailed (James Balamuta in #433 with further review by Bob Rudis).
An entry was added concerning the hard-code limit of arguments to some constructor and function (cf #435).
The Rcpp-FAQ vignette now contains a table of content.
Typos and indentation were corrected in the Rcpp Sugar vignette (#445 by Colin Gillespie).
Changes in Rcpp version 0.12.3 (2016-01-10)
Changes in Rcpp API:
Const iterators now CharacterVector now behave like regular iterators (PR #404 by Dan fixing #362).
Math operators between matrix and scalars type have been added (PR #406 by Qiang fixing #365).
A missing std::hash function interface for Rcpp::String has been addded (PR #408 by Qiang fixing #84).
Changes in Rcpp Attributes:
Avoid invalid function names when generating C++ interfaces (PR #403 by JJ fixing #402).
Insert additional space around & in function interface (PR #400 by Kazuki Fukui fixing #278).
Changes in Rcpp Modules:
The copy constructor now initialized the base class (PR #411 by Joshua Pritikin fixing #410)
Changes in Rcpp Repository:
Added a file Contributing.md providing some points to potential contributors (PR #414 closing issue #413)
Changes in Rcpp version 0.12.2 (2015-11-14)
Changes in Rcpp API:
Correct return type in product of matrix dimensions (PR #374 by Florian)
Before creating a single String object from a SEXP, ensure that it is from a vector of length one (PR #376 by Dirk, fixing #375).
No longer use STRING_ELT as a left-hand side, thanks to a heads-up by Luke Tierney (PR #378 by Dirk, fixing #377).
Rcpp Module objects are now checked more carefully (PR #381 by Tianqi, fixing #380)
An overflow in Matrix column indexing was corrected (PR #390 by Qiang, fixing a bug reported by Allessandro on the list)
Nullable types can now be assigned R_NilValue in function signatures. (PR #395 by Dan, fixing issue #394)
operator<<() now always shows decimal points (PR #396 by Dan)
Matrix classes now have a transpose() function (PR #397 by Dirk fixing #383)
operator<<() for complex types was added (PRs #398 by Qiang and #399 by Dirk, fixing #187)
Changes in Rcpp Attributes:
Enable export of C++ interface for functions that return void.
Changes in Rcpp Sugar:
Added new Sugar function cummin(), cummax(), cumprod() (PR #389 by Nathan Russell fixing #388)
Enabled sugar math operations for subsets; e.g. x[y] + x[z]. (PR #393 by Kevin and Qiang, implementing #392)
Changes in Rcpp Documentation:
The NEWS file now links to GitHub issue tickets and pull requests.
The Rcpp.bib file with bibliographic references was updated.
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