Publications by Thinking inside the box
R / Finance 2011 Call for Papers
Brian announced it on r-help and r-sig-finance and I have since updated the R/Finance website and Call for Papers page. And as David Smith already outblogged me about it, without further ado our Call for Paper for next spring’s R/Finance conference: Call for Papers: R/Finance 2011: Applied Finance with R April 29 and 30, 2011 Chicago, IL, US...
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RcppArmadillo 0.2.7
Version 0.2.7 of RcppArmadillo is now on CRAN. This updates the included Armadillo template library to version 0.9.80 which Conrad released a few days ago. RcppArmadillo makes it easy to write highly efficient and highly readable C++ code for linear algebra (based on Armadillo) in R extensions (using Rcpp for the interface). The short NEWS fil...
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More BLAS, BLASter, BLAStest: Updates on gcbd
Following up on my initial post announcing gcbd, here is a brief note on a new version. The initial post announced version 0.2.2 which was the first CRAN version of gcbd. I updated to 0.2.3 when I made the aforementioned first blog post about gcbd with the lattice plot of the BLAS and GPU benchmark results across six different implementations (...
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Chicago Marathon 2010
It’s the Monday of the Columbus Day weekend here, so I must have been running a Chicago Marathon yesterday. Indeed — the 34th annual Chicago Marathon took place yesterday but everything was about its 10/10/10 date. The symmetric set of numbers was in all advertisements, posters, street signs, on our bibs, the medals, the (nice, for once) rac...
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Rcpp 0.8.7
With the scheduled R release of version 2.12.0 this morning, we have just uploaded version 0.8.7 of Rcpp to CRAN; Debian will follow shortly once the autobuilders have processed R 2.12.0 This Rcpp release depends on R 2.12.0 as two things have changed. First, we play along with change in R concerning the ordering of inheritance for time class...
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RcppArmadillo 0.2.8
Version 0.2.8 of RcppArmadillo is now on CRAN. This updates the included Armadillo template library to version 0.9.90 which Conrad released two few days ago. RcppArmadillo makes it easy to write highly efficient and highly readable C++ code for linear algebra (based on Armadillo) in R extensions (using Rcpp for the interface). The short NEWS f...
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RPostgreSQL 0.1-7
After a somewhat long hiatus, RPostgreSQL version 0.1-7 has now been released to CRAN. RPostgreSQL connects R to PostgreSQL database systems using the standard DBI interface. This version fixes a number of issues that had been compiled in the issue tracker on the project site at Google Code. Tomoaki Nishiyama, who joined our small development g...
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RProtoBuf 0.2.1
A fresh minor release of RProtoBuf, now at version 0.2.1, has appeared earlier today on CRAN. RProtoBuf provides GNU R bindings for the Google Protobuf data encoding library used and released by Google. This releases extends the recent 0.2.0 release of RProtoBuf with a patch for raw bytes serialization which Koert Kuipers kindly contribute...
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Google Tech Talk on Integrating R and C++: video and slides
Last Friday, Romain and I were guests of the R intergrouplet (what an adorable name!) at Google’s headquarter in Mountain View. This arose out of discussions following useR! 2010 where we met Google’s Murray Stokely. There appears to be ever increasing use of R at Google, and so it was a great opportunity to give a Google T...
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Rcpp 0.8.8
A bug-fix release 0.8.8 of Rcpp is now available. It is awaiting processing at CRAN, and will be uploaded to Debian once processed at CRAN. In the meantime, sources are available from my local directory here. This release follows on the heels of 0.8.7, but contains fixes for a few small things Romain and I had noticed over the last two week...
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