NEWS

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RcppAnnoy 0.0.23

• Add dot product distance metrics (Benjamin James in #78)

• Apply small polish to the documentation (Dirk closing #79)

• A new demo() has been added (Samuel Granjeaud in #79)

RcppAnnoy 0.0.22 (2024-01-23)

• Replace empty examples macro to satisfy CRAN request.

RcppAnnoy 0.0.21 (2023-07-02)

• The build setup switched from C++11 to C++17 which offers threading support (which remains off by default to ensure consistent results)

• Upstream code was updated to Annoy 1.17.3, the switch to an explicit C++ namespace has been accomodated (Dirk in #75)

RcppAnnoy 0.0.20 (2022-10-27)

• Minor tweaks to appease clang-15 and Xcode 14

RcppAnnoy 0.0.19 (2021-07-30)

• Minor tweaks to default CI setup and DESCRIPTION file

RcppAnnoy 0.0.18 (2020-12-15)

• Small tweaks to threading policy header defines (Dirk closing #65)

• Vignette code is again compiled during testing (Aaron Lum and Dirk in #66 addressing #64)

• Upstream code (with Aaron's PR) was synchronized once more (Dirk in #67)

• A new helper function was added to report the Annoy version (Aaron in #68)

RcppAnnoy 0.0.17 (2020-11-16)

• Upgrade to Annoy 1.17, but default to serial use.

• Add new header file to regroup includes and defines.

• Upgrade CI script to use R with bspm on focal.

RcppAnnoy 0.0.16 (2020-03-08)

• Use int in two interfaces (Dirk in #59 for upstream PR 460 and closing #56).

• Use inline for two helper functions (Dirk in #59 for upstream PR 461 and closing #57; also Aaron in #58 after earlier discussion).

• Removed a noisy pragma (Dirk in #60 for upstream PR 462).

• Add a simple helper function displaying compiler status.

RcppAnnoy 0.0.15 (2020-02-27)

• RcppAnnoy synchronized with upstream PR 455 (Dirk in #55).

• The help page has a small correction thanks to Bill1 Venables.

• The alloca() function is now declared portably thanks to a working example in Writing R Extensions.

RcppAnnoy 0.0.14 (2019-11-12)

• RcppAnnoy again synchronized with upstream to ensure builds with older compilers without AVX512 instructions (Dirk #53).

• The cleanup script only uses /bin/sh.

RcppAnnoy 0.0.13 (2019-09-23)

• In example(), the saved and loaded filename is now obtained via tempfile() to not touch user directories per CRAN Policy (Dirk).

• RcppAnnoy was again synchronized with Annoy upstream leading to enhanced performance and more features (Dirk #48).

• Minor changes made (and send as PRs upstream) to adapt both annoylib.h and mman.h changes (Dirk).

• A spurious command was removed from one vignette (Peter Hickey in #49).

• Two new user-facing functions onDiskBuild() and unbuild() were added (Dirk in #50).

• Minor tweaks were made to two tinytest-using test files (Dirk).

RcppAnnoy 0.0.12 (2019-05-12)

• Allow setting of seed (Dirk in #41 fixing #40).

• Document setSeed (James Melville in #42 documenting #41).

• Added documentation (Adam Spannbauer in #44 closing #43).

• Switched unit testing to the new tinytest package (Dirk in #45).

• The vignette is now pre-made in included as-is in Sweave document reducing the number of suggested packages.

RcppAnnoy 0.0.11 (2018-11-01)

• Synchronized with Annoy upstream (#26, #30, #36).

• Added new Hamming distance measure functionality; should be considered experimental as the functionality depends on integer values.

• Travis CI use was updated to the R 3.5 PPA (#28)

• New vignette about Annoy use from C++ via Rcpp (Aaron Lun in #29 addressing #19; also #32, #33)

• The vignette was rewritten using pinp (#34, #35).

RcppAnnoy 0.0.10 (2017-09-26)

• The getItemsVector() function no longer crashes (#24)

RcppAnnoy 0.0.9 (2017-08-31)

• Synchronized with Annoy upstream version 1.9.1

• Minor updates in calls and tests as required by annoy 1.9.1

• New Manhattan distance modules along with unit test code

• Additional unit tests from upstream test code carried over

• Binary mode is used for save (as suggested by @khoran in #21)

• A new file init.c was added with calls to R_registerRoutines() and R_useDynamicSymbols()

• Symbol registration is enabled in useDynLib

RcppAnnoy 0.0.8 (2016-10-01)

• New functions getNNsByItemList and getNNsByVectorList, from by Michael Phan-Ba in #12

• Added destructor (PR #14 by Michael Phan-Ba)

• Extended templatization (PR #11 by Dan Dillon)

• Switched to run.sh for Travis (PR #17)

• Added test for admissible value to addItem (PR #18 closing issue #13)

RcppAnnoy 0.0.7 (2015-11-15)

• Synchronized with Annoy upstream changes

• Minor internal changes required by Annoy changes

RcppAnnoy 0.0.6 (2015-05-04)

• Synchronized with Annoy upstream changes

• Permit supplying our own RNG

• Minor internal changes

RcppAnnoy 0.0.5 (2015-01-24)

• Synchronized with Annoy upstream changes

RcppAnnoy 0.0.4 (2014-12-08)

• Synchronized with Annoy upstream changes

• Depends on R (>= 3.1) to permit C++11 builds

RcppAnnoy 0.0.3 (2014-11-18)

• Synchronized with Annoy upstream changes

• Windows support added (Qiang Kou in #2)

RcppAnnoy 0.0.2 (2014-11-16)

• Added verbosity toggle

• Added regression tests

RcppAnnoy 0.0.1

• Initial release