Publications by Thinking inside the box
R / Finance 2013 Open for Registration
The annoucement below just went to the R-SIG-Finance list. More information is as usual at the R / Finance page: Now open for registrations: R / Finance 2013: Applied Finance with R May 17 and 18, 2013 Chicago, IL, USA The registration for R/Finance 2013 — which will take place May 17 and 18 in Chicago — is NOW OPEN! Building on the succ...
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RcppArmadillo 0.3.810.0
A new Armadillo release 3.810.0 by Conrad appeared yesterday, and was wrapped up in a new release 0.3.810.0 of RcppArmadillo. Upstream changes bring FFT support as well as more Sparse matrix constructors, and we have an improvement to the sample() function contributed by Christian Gunning. As RcppArmadillo is used by an increasing number of pac...
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Recent Rcpp talks at U of C and MCW
A couple of days ago, I had an opportunity to give a guest lecture on our Rcpp package for R and C++ integration. This was in CMSC 12300 Computer Science with Applications-3 in the Department of Computer Science at University of Chicago. The course is the final part of a three term sequence introducing students to data-centric work in R, Python,...
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RcppArmadillo 0.3.820
Conrad rolled up a new Armadillo release 3.820 (following two minor fix release in the 0.3.810 series of which we packaged the one that was relevant for us). This new version is now out in a release 0.3.820 of RcppArmadillo which is already on CRAN and in Debian. The summary of the main changes follows: Changes in RcppArmadillo version 0.3.820...
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R / Finance 2013 Recap — and Presentation Slides
The fifth internation R/Finance conference was held last weekend. As one of the founding co-organizers, I may well be accussed of a little bias, but we think we once again pulled off a very nice and successful weekend-long event. Participants had kind words to say during the conference, and a few first posts have appeared such as Joe Rickert’...
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RcppArmadillo 0.3.900.0
A Armadillo release 3.900.0 was provided by Conrad yesterday. It has been rolled into a new RcppArmadillo release 0.3.900.0 which is now on CRAN and in Debian. It has a number of nice changes, mostly on the performance side of things (see below) and a minor cleanup/improvement in our Kalman filter example (which, as I just realized, I forgot to...
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The Rcpp Book is now shipping
My book about Rcpp (and its R and C++ integration) is now available from Springer. Amazon still lists it as not-yet-released; I expect this to change in the next few days. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Thinking inside the box . R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about...
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inline 0.3.12
Another maintenance release of inline is now on CRAN and in already included in Debian. This release was triggered by a change in the development version of R which removed an argument to package.skeleton(). The complete NEWS entry is below. Changes in inline version 0.3.12 (2013-06-12) Align package.skeleton with the R-devel version of the...
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Upcoming Rcpp talk in Sydney
The Sydney Users of R Forum (SURF) will be hosting me for a talk on July 10. The focus will be Rcpp for R and C++ integration, and the intent is to have this be really applied with lots of motivating examples. Organizers Louise and Eugene were able to move this to a slightly larger room as the initial capacity of 50 was filled almost immediate...
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Rcpp 0.10.4
A new version of Rcpp is now on the CRAN network for GNU R; binaries for Debian have been uploaded as well. This release brings a fairly large number of fixes and improvements across a number of Rcpp features, see below for the detailed list. We are also announcing with this release that we plan to phase out the RCPP_FUNCTION_* macros. Not onl...
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