Package: RcppFastFloat Type: Package Title: 'Rcpp' Bindings for the 'fast_float' Header-Only Library for Number Parsing Version: 0.0.5 Date: 2025-01-15 Authors@R: c(person("Dirk", "Eddelbuettel", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "edd@debian.org", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-6419-907X")), person("Brendan", "Knapp", role = "aut", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-3284-4972")), person("Daniel", "Lemire", role = "aut", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-3306-6922"))) Description: Converting ascii text into (floating-point) numeric values is a very common problem. The 'fast_float' header-only C++ library by Daniel Lemire does it very well and very fast at up to or over to 1 gigabyte per second as described in more detail in . 'fast_float' is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license and provided here for use by other R packages via a simple 'LinkingTo:' statement. License: GPL (>= 2) Imports: Rcpp LinkingTo: Rcpp Suggests: tinytest URL: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rcppfastfloat/, https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rcpp.fastfloat.html BugReports: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rcppfastfloat/issues RoxygenNote: 6.0.1 Encoding: UTF-8 Repository: https://eddelbuettel.r-universe.dev Date/Publication: 2026-01-19 03:34:37 UTC RemoteUrl: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rcppfastfloat RemoteRef: HEAD RemoteSha: a3fcb54db6d34871fde457e8328a9ed755617479 NeedsCompilation: yes Packaged: 2026-06-18 06:44:14 UTC; root Author: Dirk Eddelbuettel [aut, cre] (ORCID: ), Brendan Knapp [aut] (ORCID: ), Daniel Lemire [aut] (ORCID: ) Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel