Publications by Thinking inside the box
Rcpp 0.6.7
Version 0.6.7 of the Rcpp package—a set of C++ classes making it easier to glue C/C++ code to R—is now on CRAN and Debian. This is a fairly incremental release that contains just a few small changes that arose since the previous release in August. One change is that a new type RcppList was added which allows us to build R ‘list’ types i...
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R / Finance 2010 Call for Papers
Jeff sent the following while I had connectivity issues and I hadn’t gotten around to posting it here. So without further ado, and given the success of our initial R / Finance 2009 conference about R in Finance, here is the call for papers for next spring: Call for Papers: R/Finance 2010: Applied Finance with R April 16 and 17, 2010 Chicago,...
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Rcpp 0.6.8
As memtioned when I announced release 0.6.7 of Rcpp two days ago, a new version 0.6.8 was due because of my oversight of also adapting Makevars.win (used on that other OS) to the new file layout. So 0.6.8 went onto CRAN and into Debian earlier in the day. Beside the aforementioned fix, I also split off a more class headers and implementations i...
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Back from Tokyo
Just got back from Tokyo a few hours ago: I had an opportunity to give my ‘Introduction to High-Performance Computing with R’ tutorial / lectures (for which previous slides can be found here). This was an all-day talk at the Institute for Statistical Mathematics at their new site in Tachikawa in the greater Tokyo area, thanks to an invitat...
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Updated slides for ‘Introduction to HPC with R’ (now with correct URLs)
This is an updated version of yesterday’s post with corrected URLs — by copy-and-pasting I had still referenced the previous slides from UseR! 2009 in Rennes instead of last Friday’s slides from the ISM presentation in Tokyo. The presentations page had the correct URLs, and this has been corrected below for this re-post. My apologies! As m...
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digest 0.4.2
digest version 0.4.2 is now on CRAN. This new version features a fix by Henrik Bengtsson who also joined the R-Forge-hosted digest project. 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 lear...
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RQuantLib 0.3.1 released
A new version of RQuantLib is now out at CRAN and in Debian. It updates the package to the 0.9.9 release of QuantLib and is mostly a maintenance release with a few minor fixes along the way. Full changelog details, examples and more details about this package are at my RQuantLib page. Related To leave a comment for the author, please fol...
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Rcpp 0.7.0
A new release of Rcpp awaits inclusion on CRAN and has also been sent as a .deb to Debian. It will hit mirrors over the next few days, in the meantime you can get it here as well. This release has a couple new features : inline support: the cfunction from Oleg Sklyar’s excellent inline package has been imported and adapted. This means s...
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Rcpp and inline example
Following up on yesterday’s Rcpp 0.7.0 release, here is a quick example of why the new feastures can be so useful. The following R code defines a character variable gslrng. This variable contains a short C++ code segment, which is then transformed by the function cfunction into a function of two arguments assigned to funx: ## now use Rcpp...
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RInside release 0.2.0
RInside, a set of convenience classes to facilitate embedding of R inside of C++ applications, was updated to release 0.2.0 over the weekend. Sources as well as binary packages are at CRAN; sources are also at my RInside page The biggest news is that we now support builds on Windows — if and only if you use the R toolchain — more on that be...
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