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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2016/10/01#rcppannoy_0.0.8"> Thinking inside the box </a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<p>An new version 0.0.8 of <a target="_blank" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rcpp.annoy.html">RcppAnnoy</a>, our <a target="_blank" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rcpp.html">Rcpp</a>-based R integration of the nifty <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/spotify/annoy">Annoy</a> library by <a target="_blank" href="http://erikbern.com/">Erik</a>, is now on <a target="_blank" href="http://cran.r-project.org/">CRAN</a>. <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/spotify/annoy">Annoy</a> is a small, fast, and lightweight C++ template header library for approximate nearest neighbours.</p>
<p>This release pulls in a few suggested changes which had piled up since the <a target="_blank" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2015/11/16#rcppannoy_0.0.7">last release</a>.</p>
<p>Changes in this version are summarized here:</p>
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<h4>Changes in version 0.0.8 (2016-10-01)</h4>
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<p>New functions <code>getNNsByItemList</code> and <code>getNNsByVectorList</code>, by Michael Phan-Ba in <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rcppannoy/issues/12">#12</a></p>
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<p>Added destructor (PR <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rcppannoy/pull/14">#14</a> by Michael Phan-Ba)</p>
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<p>Extended templatization (PR <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rcppannoy/pull/11">#11</a> by Dan Dillon)</p>
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<p>Switched to <code>run.sh</code> for Travis (PR <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rcppannoy/pull/17">#17</a>)</p>
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<p>Added test for admissible value to <code>addItem</code> (PR <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rcppannoy/pull/18">#18</a> closing issue <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rcppannoy/issues/13">#13</a>)</p>
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<p>Courtesy of <a target="_blank" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/">CRANberries</a>, there is also a diffstat report for <a target="_blank" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/2016/10/01#RcppAnnoy_0.0.8">this release</a>.</p>
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This post by <a target="_blank" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/">Dirk Eddelbuettel</a> originated on his <a target="_blank" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/">Thinking inside the box</a> blog. Please report excessive re-aggregation in third-party for-profit settings.</p>
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