Publications by Thinking inside the box
Review of ‘Applied Econometrics in R’ in JSS
A short review of Kleiber and Zeileis’ excellent Applied Econometrics with R is now out at the (online) Journal of Statistical Software. 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 R news and tutorials about learn...
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Rcpp 0.6.4
A new maintenance version of Rcpp (now at 0.6.4) was just pushed to CRAN and has been uploaded to Debian. Rcpp is a set of utility classes that provide interfaces for transferring the major R data types to C++ and back which makes it easier to extend R with dynamically loadable code written in C or C++. This version changes how use the std names...
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RQuantLib 0.2.11
The changes in Rcpp that I blogged about a few days ago required a few small changes in RQuantLib. Not really much more that prefixing std:: in a number of variable declarations and a few member function calls — so this is definitely a minor maintenance release. New source and binary packages have already been pushed to CRAN and Debian. Relat...
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Short introduction to
Adam Gehr of DePaul University’s Finance Department had organized a panel session about R in Finance at the Midwest Finance Association’s 58th Annual Meeting which is happening this week here in Chicago. I just posted my slides on my presentations page. The slides give a brief overview of R, the CRAN network and the by now over 1600 package...
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2009 March Madness Half Marathon in Cary
This morning it was once more time for the annual March Madness Half Marathon in Cary. This race is basically the start of the running season in Chicagoland. And we could not have asked for better weather. After a really cold and long winter, and a short snapback to really cold temperatures this week, it started to warm up a little yesterday wit...
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Dianne Reeves at Dominican
Yesterday afternoon, we had another chance to see Dianne Reeves (wikipedia). This time, it almost felt like she came to us as she was headlining at the annual trustee benefit concert at Dominican University, a small college about a mile from our place. And as in 2007 and 2003, she did not disappoint. Great voice, great stage presence. Highly ...
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Rcpp 0.6.5
A minor new maintenance release 0.6.5 of Rcpp just went off to CRAN and Debian. This version corrects a small oversight for the OS X build, and adds the LGPL as file COPYING to the sources. 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...
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New Garmin Forerunner
Going for a run–or a race–almost always meant grabbing the GPS and often also meant setting a target pace and distance. For the last four and a half years, this was measured by a Garmin Forerunner 201. That’s the large rectangular model in the original “brick” form factor. I’ve come to love the device. Training is great because the d...
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Boston Marathon 2009
Monday was the 113th Boston Marathon. Just like in 2007 (and having skipped last year as I ran London the week before), I went as part of a group of local running friends. We once again had a blast—Boston on Marathon weekend is a real spectacle. Lots of people, lots of excitement, and this time even great weather. The race itself was chal...
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Real nice Boston Marathon writeup
This article from the Boston Globe gives an excellent description of what running Boston last Monday was like, and why we keep coming back, almost regardless. The writer, for whom it was the fifth Boston and ninth total, expresses the range of emotions, expectations, frustrations, excitements, ups, downs, … all of which form the challenge of r...
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