Edits to DESCRIPTION and NEWS, s/arma::is_finite/std::isfinite/

Author: eddelbuettel

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+2025-08-27  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <[email protected]>
+
+	* DESCRIPTION (Version, Date): RcppArmadillo 15.0.1-1
+        * inst/NEWS.Rd: Idem
+        * configure.ac: Idem
+        * configure: Idem
+
+	* inst/include/RcppArmadilloExtensions/fixprob.h: Replace deprecated
+	arma::is_finite(val) with std::isfinite(val)
+
 2025-08-23  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <[email protected]>
 
 	* DESCRIPTION (Description): Rewritten and updated, add mention of
@@ -11,11 +21,6 @@
 
 2025-08-22  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <[email protected]>
 
-	* DESCRIPTION (Version, Date): RcppArmadillo 15.0.1-1
-        * inst/NEWS.Rd: Idem
-        * configure.ac: Idem
-        * configure: Idem
-
 	* inst/include/current/: Armadillo 15.0.1
 
 2025-08-21  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <[email protected]>

DESCRIPTION

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Package: RcppArmadillo
 Type: Package
 Title: 'Rcpp' Integration for the 'Armadillo' Templated Linear Algebra Library
 Version: 15.0.1-1
-Date: 2025-08-23
+Date: 2025-08-27
 Authors@R: c(person("Dirk", "Eddelbuettel", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "[email protected]",
                     comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-6419-907X")),
              person("Romain", "Francois", role = "aut",
@@ -21,17 +21,16 @@ Description: 'Armadillo' is a templated C++ linear algebra library aiming toward
  A sophisticated expression evaluator (based on template meta-programming) automatically
  combines several operations to increase speed and efficiency. Dynamic evaluation
  automatically chooses optimal code paths based on detected matrix structures.
- Matrix decompositions (eigen, SVD, Cholesky, etc) are provided through integration
- with LAPACK, or one of its high performance drop-in replacements (eg. MKL or OpenBLAS).
- It can automatically use OpenMP multi-threading (parallelisation) to speed up
+ Matrix decompositions are provided through integration with LAPACK, or one of its
+ high performance drop-in replacements (such as 'MKL' or 'OpenBLAS'). It can
+ automatically use 'OpenMP' multi-threading (parallelisation) to speed up
  computationally expensive operations.
  .
- The 'RcppArmadillo' package includes the header files from the templated 'Armadillo'
- library so users do not need to install 'Armadillo' itself in order to use
- 'RcppArmadillo'.
+ The 'RcppArmadillo' package includes the header files from the 'Armadillo' library;
+ users do not need to install 'Armadillo' itself in order to use 'RcppArmadillo'.
  .
- Starting from release 15.0.0, the minimum compilation standard is C++14 so Armadillo
- version 14.6.3 is also included as a fallback when C++11 is used.
+ Starting from release 15.0.0, the minimum compilation standard is C++14 so 'Armadillo'
+ version 14.6.3 is included as a fallback when an R package forces the C++11 standard.
  .
  Since release 7.800.0, 'Armadillo' is licensed under Apache License 2; previous
  releases were under licensed as MPL 2.0 from version 3.800.0 onwards and LGPL-3

inst/NEWS.Rd

@@ -3,13 +3,14 @@
 \newcommand{\ghpr}{\href{https://github.com/RcppCore/RcppArmadillo/pull/#1}{##1}}
 \newcommand{\ghit}{\href{https://github.com/RcppCore/RcppArmadillo/issues/#1}{##1}}
 
-\section{Changes in RcppArmadillo version 15.0.1-1 (2025-08-22)}{
+\section{Changes in RcppArmadillo version 15.0.1-1 (2025-08-27)}{
   \itemize{
     \item Upgraded to Armadillo release 15.0.1-1 (Medium Roast)
     \itemize{
       \item Workaround for GCC compiler bug involving misoptimisation of
       complex number multiplication
     }
+    \item Update DESCRIPTION and README.md
   }
 }
 

inst/include/RcppArmadilloExtensions/fixprob.h

@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
-// -*- mode: C++; c-indent-level: 4; c-basic-offset: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; -*-
-/* :tabSize=4:indentSize=4:noTabs=false:folding=explicit:collapseFolds=1: */
-//
-// fixprob.h: helper function for Rcpp/Armadillo random number draws, including sample().  
+
+// fixprob.h: helper function for Rcpp/Armadillo random number draws, including sample().
 // Copyright (C)  2012 - 2014  Christian Gunning
 // Copyright (C)  2013  Romain Francois
+// Copyright (C)  2025  Dirk Eddelbuettel
 //
 // This file is part of RcppArmadillo.
 //
@@ -25,17 +24,17 @@
 #include <RcppArmadillo.h>
 namespace Rcpp{
     namespace RcppArmadillo{
-    
+
         void FixProb(arma::vec &prob, const int size, const bool replace) {
-            // prob is modified in-place.  
+            // prob is modified in-place.
             double sum = 0.0;
             int ii, nPos = 0;
             int nn = prob.size();
             for (ii = 0; ii < nn; ii++) {
                 // pop stack
                 double prob_value = prob(ii);
-              
-                if (!arma::is_finite(prob_value)) //does this work??
+
+                if (!std::isfinite(prob_value)) //does this work??
                     throw std::range_error( "NAs not allowed in probability" ) ;
                 if (prob_value < 0.0)
                     throw std::range_error( "Negative probabilities not allowed" ) ;