Publications by Thinking inside the box
2010 March Madness Half Marathon in Cary
The annual March Madness Half Marathon in Cary took place this morning. This is both one of Chicagoland’s ‘early races’ to start the season as well as the classic Boston preparation due to the hilly course. I have now run this consecutively for six years (see 2005. 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009). As for the race conditions, we had fantastic...
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RInside release 0.2.2
The shiny new 0.2.2 release of RInside has just been uploaded to CRAN; it should hit mirrors tommorow. Sources are also at my RInside page. RInside is a set of convenience classes to facilitate embedding of R inside of C++ applications. It works particularly well with Rcpp and now depends on it. This is the first release since version 0.2.1 ...
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Finance::YahooQuote 0.23
Rule number one in regression testing is to not depend on volatile data. Which I seem to have violated in file t/02simple.t in the Perl package Finance::YahooQuote. Which lead the automated Perl test scripts to remind me for a few days now that the full company name for symbol IBM no longer corresponded to what I had encoded. Not really a bug, b...
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Rcpp 0.7.11
A new versions 0.7.11 of Rcpp is awaiting inclusion into CRAN and Debian. It is also available from here. This version fixes a somewhat serious bug uncovered by Doug Bates when working with vectors of strings. We also added a few new accessor functions as well as a new convenience function create that is particularly useful for creating (possi...
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Finance::YahooQuote 0.24
Having espoused rule number one in regression testing in the post about yesterday’s bug fix upload 0.23, we can now add rule number zero: Do not introduce a new error by omitting the trailing semicolon. I guess it shows that I don’t really program in Perl anymore. Anyway, a new version 0.24 of Finance::YahooQuote which addresses the issue...
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UCLA and LA RUG talks on R and C++ integration
We spent last week in the LA area and had a generally good time out west. I was able to sneak in two talks and a group discussion, thanks to the help by Jan de Leeuw (and everybody at UCLA’s Stats department) as well as by Szilard Pafka representing the LA R User’s Group. Pdf files for the slides for the talks are now on my presentations pa...
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Video of UCLA / LA RUG talk on R and C++ integration
Thanks to the efforts of the tireless R User Group organizers Szilard Pafka (in Los Angeles, recording the talk) and Drew Conway (in New York, converting and organising hosting), there is now a video and slide combo of my recent talk about Rcpp and RInside at UCLA and the Los Angeles R Users Group. Thanks also to David Smith (at the REvolutions...
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Rcpp 0.7.12
A new bug fix versions 0.7.12 of Rcpp is awaiting inclusion into CRAN and Debian. It is also available from here. This is another bug-fix version related solely to a build failure on Windows. Trying to protect paths with spaces has the side-effect of breaking backticks use, which unfortunately is already in use by a number of package that sinc...
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R / Finance 2010 presentations
Last Friday and Saturday the second R / Finance conference took place in Chicago on the UIC campus. As a co-organizer, it was a great pleasure to see so many users of R in Finance—from both industry and academia—come to Chicago to discuss and share recent work. There is a lot going on, and it is always good to exchange ideas with others sh...
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R Project and Google Summer of Code: Welcome to our students!
A few hours ago, I sent the following to both the R development list and the informal R / GSoC list: Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:27:29 -0500 To: R Development List CC: gsoc-r Subject: R and the Google Summer of Code 2010 -- Please welcome our new students! From: Dirk Eddelbuettel Earlier today Google finalised student / mentor pairings and all...
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