Publications by Thinking inside the box
useR 2009 in Rennes: Recap and slides
I spent most of last week in Rennes, the capital of Brittany in France, as it was time for UseR! 2009, the annual R conference. Francois Husson, Aline Legrand and others at the Agrocampus Ouest had put together a really well-run conference, and it was a pleasure to reconnect with so many people. It was also pretty nice to walk around town and s...
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cran2deb: Would you like 1700+ new Debian / R packages ?
As I mentioned in my quick write-up of UseR 2009, one of my talks was about cran2deb: a system to turn (essentially) all CRAN packages into directly apt-get-able binary packages. This is essentially a ‘2.0’ version of earlier work with Steffen Moeller and David Vernazobres which we had presented in 2007. Then, the approach was top-down and...
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New RInside release
I just rolled up a new release of RInside, my C++ wrapper classes which facilitate embedding R into your own C++ application. This releases owes a big Thank you! to Miguel Lechón who not only noticed errant behaviour and occassional segfaults with overly long commands sent to the embedded R, but even traced it to an oversight of mine in a simp...
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Rcpp 0.6.6
Version 0.6.6 of Rcpp [ a set of C++ classes making it easier to glue C/C++ code to R ] went off to CRAN and Debian earlier as another small maintenance release. While the diffstat output that will appear in cranberries may look impressive, it stems chiefly from updating the Doxygen documentation of the C++ classes. Only one small feature was ...
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State of the Art in Parallel Computing with R: Now published
Our survey paper on the current state of the art in parallel computing with R, previously mentioned here as a technical report is now out as Vol 31, Issue 1 of the all-electronic 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-blogg...
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random 0.2.1
A maintenance fix was applied to random: following the changes in release 0.2.0 a few months ago that reflected changes at the random.org site, we needed to make one more change in randomSequence. Thanks for Lynn Amon for spotting this. The new package is available here and should appear on CRAN shortly. Related To leave a comment for the au...
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RQuantLib 0.3.0 released
Earlier this evening, I rolled up a new version of RQuantLib. It has been pushed to CRAN and Debian, and source and binary version should appear on the respective mirror networks in due course. This version, the first in a new ‘0.3.*’ release series, contains all the work that Khanh Nguyen did during his Google Summer of Code participation ...
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RQuantLib 0.3.0 Windows build snag
Yesterday’s upload of RQuantLib 0.3.0 contained one minor oversight: I had failed to update src/Makefile.win to the new and enlarged set of source files. The proper fix (of using wildcards and implicit rules) was simple, and Uwe Ligges kindly rebuilt RQuantLib on the Windows builder for CRAN using an updated Makefile so that binaries for Windo...
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Chicago Half Marathon 2009
Today it was once again time for the Chicago Half Marathon (which I have now been running in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008). Conditions were much much better than last year’s very heavy rainfall—we were once again treated to a sunny and clear Chicago sky. It was however a little on the humid side and got somewhat warm; a few fri...
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RInside release 0.1.0 — and now on CRAN
Version 0.1.0 of RInside, my C++ wrapper classes which facilitate embedding R into your own C++ application, has been released and is now an official CRAN package. This release improves on the build process and should work on any sane Unix-alike operating system. A few more examples were added or extended. Details and the full ChangeLog are on ...
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