RcppGSL 0.3.14 on CRAN: Maintenance

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:05:00 CDT

A new release 0.3.14 of RcppGSL is now on CRAN. The RcppGSL package provides an interface from R to the GNU GSL by relying on the Rcpp package. It has already been uploaded to Debian, and is also already available as a binary via r2u.

This release, the first in over three years, contains mostly maintenance changes. We polished the fastLm example implementation a little more, updated continunous integration as one does over such a long period, adopted the Authors@R convention, switched the (pre-made) pdf vignette to a new driver now provided by Rcpp, updated vignette references and URLs, and updated one call to Rf_error to aid in a Rcpp transition towards using only Rcpp::stop which unwinds error conditions better. (Technically this was a false positive on Rf_error but on the margin worth tickling this release after all this time.)

The NEWS entry follows:

Changes in version 0.3.14 (2026-03-05)

Updated some internals of fastLm example, and regenerated RcppExports.* files

Several updates for continuous integration

Switched to using Authors@R

Replace ::Rf_error with (Rf_error) in old example to aid Rcpp transition to Rcpp::stop (or this pass-through)

Vignette now uses the Rcpp::asis builder for pre-made pdfs

Vignette references have been updated, URLs prefer https and DOIs

Thanks to my CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report for this release. More information is on the RcppGSL page. Questions, comments etc should go to the issue tickets at the GitHub repo.

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