Publications by romain francois
Google tech talk / Rcpp, … presentation on youtube
Following this post, the 90 minutes presentation is now available to watch on youtube: Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Romain Francois, Professional R Enthusiast. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click her...
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What would impressionnists do with R ?
I’ve been playing with images recently, probably inspired from my trip in San Francisco. There was an exhibit at the De Young museum of fine arts with pieces borrowed from the Musée d’Orsay. I did not go to the exhibit because it is easy enough for me to just go to Paris and the Musée d’Orsay, but I guess this somewhat inspired me, along ...
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ZAT! 2010
Tomorrow is the last day to enjoy the first edition of Montpellier’s ZAT! (Zones Artistiques Temporaires). I was there this afternoon and tonight, but I found it much more picture worthy tonight: Other people have also taken pictures and shared them on flickr: Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on...
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Rcpp 0.8.9
Rcpp 0.8.9 was pushed to CRAN recently. Apart from minor bug fixes, this release concentrates on modules, with lots of new features to expose C++ functions and classes through R reference classes. The Rcpp-modules vignette has all the details, and the mjor points are highlighted in the NEWS entry below: 0.8.9 2010-11-28 (or even -27) o ...
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parser 0.0-12
I’ve pushed a new version of the parser package to CRAN. This is the first release that depends on Rcpp, which allowed me to reduce the code size and increase its maintainability. This also features a faster version of nlines, a function that retrieves the number of lines of a text file. Related To leave a comment for the author, please fo...
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Evolution of Rcpp code size
I’ve been contributing to Rcpp for about a year now, initially to add missing bits that were needed for the development of RProtoBuf. This led to a complete redesign of the API, which now goes way beyond the initial code (that we now call classic Rcpp API). This has been quite a journey in terms of development with more than 1500 commits to the...
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highlight 0.2-5
I pushed highlight 0.2-5 on CRAN. This release improves the latex renderer and the sweave driver so that multiple lines character strings are properly rendered. This example vignette shows it: \documentclass[a4paper]{report} \begin{document} <<echo=FALSE,results=hide>>= old.op <- options( prompt = " ", continue = " " ) @ <<>>= require( inli...
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Rcpp at Geneva-R
I’ll present Rcpp at the inaugural Geneva-R meeting. Geneva-R is an informal gathering of R enthusiasts sponsored by Mango Solutions, that builds on the success of London-R, where I presented twice, and Basel-R Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Romain Francois, Professional R Enthu...
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Rcpp workshop in Chicago on April 28th
Overview This year’s R/Finance conference will be preceded by a full-day masterclass on Rcpp and related topics which will be held on Thursday, April 28, 2011, the Univ. of Illinois at Chicago campus. Join Dirk Eddelbuettel and Romain Francois for six hours of detailed and hands-on instructions and discussions around Rcpp, inline, RInsid...
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Rcpp article in JSS
The Journal of Statistical Software published our Rcpp article Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Romain Francois, Professional R Enthusiast - Tag - R. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're loo...
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