Publications by Thinking inside the box
Multiseat setup via Userful
As I had blogged a while back, multiseat use broke following the normal upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10. I had also suggested a fix but it turns out that the fix didn’t work. So we had a clear regression — multiseat use of a single Ubuntu workstation with two screens, two keyboards and two mice no longer worked. Consequently, the kids ended up ‘se...
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R featured in New York Times article
Today’s New York Times carries a decent article about R. Predictably, this lead to one (short), two (longest), three (short) threads on the main R mailing list. One aspect merits further highlighting. The reporter asked whether R would pose a threat to SAS: “I think it addresses a niche market for high-end data analysts that want free, re...
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Google Summer of Code 2009
Word is out that there will be a 2009 edition of the Google Summer of Code. I have some follow-up ideas based on last year’s mentoring for both Debian and R, but there will be a better time and place to discuss possible project ideas. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Thinking ins...
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Rcpp 0.6.3
I just pushed Rcpp 0.6.3 out to CRAN and Debian. This version adds a fix to the OS X installation (thanks to Simon Urbanek), adds some ‘view-only’ classes for R vectors, matrices and string vectors (kindly suggested/provided by David Reiss) as well two shorter helper functions to derive compilation and linker flags for packages using Rcpp. ...
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littler 0.1.2
Version 0.1.2 of r (pronounced littler) was just rolled up. This version adds two new command-line switches: -t selects per-session temporary directories in the same way as R does (with thanks to Paul Gilbert for the suggestion), and -q skips autoloading of default libraries at startup for another small yet noticeable gain in startup speed (wi...
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New CRAN Task View on HPC
A while back, I suggested to Achim to add a new CRAN Task View for High Performance Computing with R. And as of a day or two ago, we now have the new CRAN Task View for High Performance Computing with R providing an overview about available packages, grouped thematically, with a focus on the various parallel computing application. I have alrea...
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State-of-the-art in parallel computing with R: New paper
A few weeks ago, we finished a paper that surveys the current state of parallel computing with R. The paper was lead by Markus Schmidberger and written while he was visiting the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. The co-authors are Martin Morgan, myself, Hao Yu, Luke Tierney and Ulrich Mansmann. The paper is now available as a tec...
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Correct Datetime / POSIXct behaviour for R and kdb+
We have started to look into kdb+ as a possible high-performance column-store backend. Kx offers free trials — and so I have played with this for a day or two, both the general system, data loads and dumps and in particular with the interface to R, Based on the few files (one C source with interface code, one R file to access the C code, one ob...
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New project: RInside
A few days ago, I started a new project called RInside by uploading a few files to a new SVN repo at R-Forge. RInside makes it easy to embed R into your own C++ application by hiding the nitty gritty of initializing an R interpreter behind a simple abstraction. More information is at a (currently pretty simple) RInside page, and you may want...
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R/Finance conference in Chicago in April: Registration now open
Regarding the aforementioned R/Finance conference that will take place at the end of April here in Chicago, we announced earlier today that the conference website is now available. It provides information about the program, speakers and other details as well as a link to registration details. See you in Chicago in April! Related To leave a co...
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