Publications by Thinking inside the box
RcppAPT 0.0.9: Minor Update
A new version of the RcppAPT package with the R interface to the C++ library behind the awesome apt, apt-get, apt-cache, … commands and their cache powering Debian, Ubuntu and the like arrived on CRAN earlier today. RcppAPT allows you to query the (Debian or Ubuntu) package dependency graph at will, with build-dependencies (if you have deb-src ...
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AsioHeaders 1.22.1-1 on CRAN
An updated version of the AsioHeaders package arrived at CRAN yesterday (in one of those pleasant fully-automated uploads and transitions). Asio provides a cross-platform C++ library for network and low-level I/O programming. It is also included in Boost – but requires linking when used as part of Boost. This standalone version of Asio is a hea...
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RcppArmadillo 0.11.2.0.0 on CRAN: New Upstream
Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra and scientific computing. It aims towards a good balance between speed and ease of use, has a syntax deliberately close to Matlab, and is useful for algorithm development directly in C++, or quick conversion of research code into production environments. RcppArmadillo ...
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#38: Faster Feedback Systems
Engineers build systems. Good engineers always stress and focus efficiency of these systems. Two recent examples of engineering thinking follow. One was in a video / podcast interview with Martin Thompson (who is a noted high-performance code expert) I came across recently. The overall focus of the hour-long interview is on ‘managing software c...
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Rcpp 1.0.9 on CRAN: Regular Updates
The Rcpp team is please to announce the newest release 1.0.9 of Rcpp which hit CRAN late yesterday, and has been uploaded to Debian as well. Windows and macOS builds should appear at CRAN in the next few days, as will builds in different Linux distribution and of course at r2u. The release was prepared om July 2, but it took a few days to clear a...
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rfoaas 2.3.2: New upstream accessors
FOAAS by now moved to version 2.3.2 in its repo. This releases 2.3.2 of rfoaas catches up, and brings the first release in about two and a half years. This 2.3.2 release of FOAAS brings us six new REST access points: absolutely(), dense(), dumbledore(), lowpoly(), understand(), and yeah(). Along with these new functions, documentation and tests w...
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Very flattering
Good friend and fellow Oak Park / River Forest runner Paul Oppenheim used his column in the local weekly for some very flattering words about the marathon runners in our informal running group and even highlighting my personal World Marathon Majors adventure. I may just have to keep a copy for my epitaph. Related To leave a comment for the ...
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Rcpp now in Debian
Rcpp is an interface package that makes it easier to add C++ code to GNU R. It had started as a part of my RQuantLib project but has now come into its own as blogged here and here. As of today, Rcpp is now also available as a Debian package. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Thinking ...
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RQuantLib 0.2.10
Earlier this month and following the release of QuantLib 0.9.7, I updated RQuantLib to version 0.2.10. For once, there were no changes required to keep up with QuantLib. Rather, changes were internal as Rcpp had been spun off into its own package. As Rcpp is now in Debian, RQuantLib itself was also updated in Debian following the earlier ...
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R/Finance conference in Chicago in April: Call for Papers
The following went out to the R-announce and R-SIG-Finance mailing lists a few days ago. The conference already has a very strong lineup of invited speakers, and we are now asking R / Finance users from both academia and industry to submit suitable one-page abstracts: Call for Papers The Finance Department of the University of Illino...
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