R: News for Package 'RcppBDT'

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News for Package RcppBDT

The package no longer sets a C++ compilation standard
Package infrastructure, documentation and continuous integration support have been updated
Several manual pages now have package anchors for the code link
A demo/ file has been move to inst/examples/

Ensure consistent compilation by ensuring RcppBDT.h is included in all files, this addresses an LTO/ODR issue
Correct one declaration in init.c
Minor additional cleanups

New utility function toPOSIXct which can take multitple input format (integer, floating point or character) vectors and can convert by relying on a wide variety of standard formats. This predates what has long been split off into a new package anytime which is more functional and feaureful.
New demo 'toPOSIXct' illustrating the feature.
New demo 'toPOSIXctTiming' benchmarking it.
Documentation for new functions was added as well.
CI now uses run.sh from r-ci.
Functions getLastDayOfWeekInMonth and getFirstDayOfWeekInMonth now use dow argument.
The shared library is now registered when loaded from NAMESPACE.
C level entry points are now registered as R now recommends.
Several badges were added to the README.md file.
Several fields were added to the DESCRIPTION file, and/or updated.
Documentation URLs where both updated as needed and converted to https.

New module 'bdtDt' replacing the old 'bdtDate' module in a more transparent stule using a local class which is wrapped, just like the three other new classes do
New module 'bdtTd' providing date durations which can be added to dates.
New module 'bdtTz' providing time zone information such as offset to UTC, amount of DST, abbreviated and full timezone names.
New module 'bdtDu' using 'posix_time::duration' for time durations types
New module 'bdtPt' using 'posix_time::ptime' for posix time, down to nanosecond granularity (where hardware and OS permit it)
Now selects C++11 compilation by setting CXX_STD = CXX11 in src/Makevars* and hence depend on R 3.1.0 or later – this gives gives us long long needed for the nano-second high-resolution time calculations across all builds and platforms.

Updates to current CRAN Policy standards for Depends: and Imports: in DESCRIPTION
Also take advantage of new Rcpp 0.11.0 build options
New code remains in GitHub repo master branch until R 3.1.0 is released so that we can use C++11 in order to get the long long int support without which the package does not build on Windows (whereas Linux is fine)

Bug for getEndOfBizWeek() and getEndOfMonth() who were lacking a call to fromDate(date) to actually pass the date for which the functions are computing the end of business week or month.

The core module, which wraps what in C++ is boost::gregorian::date, is now exposed as an Rcpp module bdtDate. As all example and demos operated off a (package-global) variable 'bdt', no user visible change was needed outside of the code instantiating at package load.
Updated package instantiation to the new facilities offered by the current versions R 2.15.1 and Rcpp 0.9.13 which make Rcpp module initialization easier and more streamlined.

First CRAN upload (and see ChangeLog for more granular details) bug fix in svm cross validation