Publications by Iñaki Úcar

Installing and switching to MKL on Fedora

In our last post, we presented the FlexiBLAS library, coming to Fedora 33, and the accompanying flexiblas R package, which enables live switching of the BLAS backend among the various open source options readily available in the Fedora repositories. In this post, we demonstrate how to install, register with FlexiBLAS, and finally switch to I...

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constants: Update to 2018 CODATA values

The constants package contains CODATA internationally recommended values of the fundamental physical constants, provided as symbols for direct use within the R language. Optionally, the values with uncertainties and/or units are also provided if the errors, units and/or quantities packages are installed. The Committee on Data for Science a...

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Least squares as springs, the Shiny app

Three weeks ago, I saw a nice mechanical recreation of a PCA (or total least squares) on Twitter: just by pulling some strings attached to a straw. When you encode your vectors as strings. https://t.co/xkmdV8TeMc— Sean J. Taylor (@seanjtaylor) November 15, 2020 Some days ago, Joshua Loftus published Least squares as springs, where the author ...

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