RcppClassic 0.9.14 on CRAN: Minor Update

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:25:00 CDT

A maintenance release 0.9.14 of the RcppClassic package arrived earlier today on CRAN, and has been built for r2u. This package provides a maintained version of the otherwise deprecated initial Rcpp API which no new projects should use as the normal and current Rcpp API is so much better.

A few changes had cumulated up since the last release in late 2022. We updated continuous integration scripts a few times, switched to Authors@R in DESCRIPTION, and rejigged build scripts a little to accommodate both possible build architectures for macOS. We also updated the vignette by updating all reference and switching the new asis vignette builder now available in Rcpp.

CRANberries also reports the changes relative to the previous release from 3 1/2 years ago. Questions, comments etc should go to the rcpp-devel mailing list off the R-Forge page.

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