Dirk released Rcpp 0.7.5 yesterday

The main thing is the smarter wrap function that now uses techniques of type traits and template meta-programming to have a compile time guess at whether an object is wrappable, and how to do it. Currently wrappable types are :

• primitive types : int, double, Rbyte, Rcomplex
• std::string
• STL containers such as std::vector<T> as long as T is wrappable. This is not strictly tied to the STL, actually any type that has a nested type called iterator and member functions begin() and end() will do
• STL maps keyed by strings such as std::map<std::string,T> as long as T is wrappable
• any class that can be implicitely converted to SEXP
• any class for which the wrap template is partly or fully specialized. (The next version of RInside has an example of that)

Here comes an example (from our unit tests) :

        funx <- cfunction(signature(), 
        '
        std::map< std::string,std::vector<int> > m ;
        std::vector<int> b ; b.push_back(1) ; b.push_back(2) ; m["b"] = b ;
        std::vector<int> a ; a.push_back(1) ; a.push_back(2) ; a.push_back(2) ; m["a"] = a ;
        std::vector<int> c ; c.push_back(1) ; c.push_back(2) ; c.push_back(2) ; c.push_back(2) ; m["c"] = c ;
        return wrap(m) ;
        ', 
        Rcpp=TRUE, verbose=FALSE, includes = "using namespace Rcpp;" )

R> funx()
$a
[1] 1 2 2

$b
[1] 1 2

$c
[1] 1 2 2 2

Apart from that, other things have changed, here is the relevant section of the NEWS for this release

    o   wrap has been much improved. wrappable types now are :
        - primitive types : int, double, Rbyte, Rcomplex, float, bool
        - std::string
        - STL containers which have iterators over wrappable types:
          (e.g. std::vector, std::deque, std::list, etc ...). 
        - STL maps keyed by std::string, e.g std::map<:string>
        - classes that have implicit conversion to SEXP
        - classes for which the wrap template if fully or partly specialized
        This allows composition, so for example this class is wrappable: 
        std::vector< std::map<:string> > (if T is wrappable)
        
    o   The range based version of wrap is now exposed at the Rcpp::
        level with the following interface : 
        Rcpp::wrap( InputIterator first, InputIterator last )
        This is dispatched internally to the most appropriate implementation
        using traits

    o   a new namespace Rcpp::traits has been added to host the various
        type traits used by wrap

    o   The doxygen documentation now shows the examples

    o   A new file inst/THANKS acknowledges the kind help we got from others

    o   The RcppSexp has been removed from the library.
    
    o   The methods RObject::asFoo are deprecated and will be removed
        in the next version. The alternative is to use as.

    o   The method RObject::slot can now be used to get or set the 
        associated slot. This is one more example of the proxy pattern
        
    o   Rcpp::VectorBase gains a names() method that allows getting/setting
        the names of a vector. This is yet another example of the 
        proxy pattern.
        
    o   Rcpp::DottedPair gains templated operator<< and operator>> that 
        allow wrap and push_back or wrap and push_front of an object
        
    o   Rcpp::DottedPair, Rcpp::Language, Rcpp::Pairlist are less
        dependent on C++0x features. They gain constructors with up
        to 5 templated arguments. 5 was choosed arbitrarily and might 
        be updated upon request.
        
    o   function calls by the Rcpp::Function class is less dependent
        on C++0x. It is now possible to call a function with up to 
        5 templated arguments (candidate for implicit wrap)
        
    o   added support for 64-bit Windows (thanks to Brian Ripley and Uwe Ligges)