I am in the process of speeding up some code, and I have been lured by the promises of Rcpp. Since the functions I am working on are mainly linear algebra, I wanted to try out RcppArmadillo. This put my googling skills to a test as I spent (way) too much time trying to figure out errors until I found this post. Thank you James Balamuta ! Be warned RcppArmadillo, microbenchmarking is on !