Data Science. TileDB. Open Source. Quant Research. R. C++. Debian. Linux. Adjunct Clinical Professor, University of Illinois. Lots of coffee. And some running.

Chicago, IL, USA
Joined March 2007
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Replying to @jeffreyhorner
@jeffreyhorner @geoffjentry Nope, Jeff needs a library built so that Uwe can have win-builder _use_ that library. Welcome to Windoze hell.
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Yawn. Here we go away. Let us know when you guys release it. MT @gappy3000 @vsbuffalo I agree. A new language "not unlike R",
Replying to @vsbuffalo
win-builder.r-project.org @vsbuffalo There was a website to test if an R package builds on Windows. Anyone know it?
Replying to @moneyscience
Wrong -- R is for www.R-Project.org. Revo is a company supporting it as well some OS efforts @moneyscience 'R' is for Revolution Analytics
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Cary IL March Madness Half Marathon: 1:39:55 on limited training.
xkcd nails it about a rather too common approaches to time management http://goo.gl/mLz2X
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Replying to @hadleywickham
Been there done that too via onLoad() for an intra-company package @hadleywickham not really - check would be initiated automatically
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Replying to @CMastication
@cmastication I am experiencing cognitive dissonance here. Did you just use 'XLS files' and 'smooth' in the same sentence?
@hadleywickham this topic has aalso been discussed at great length on the r-sig-debian list -- more stuff than 140 chars hold
Replying to @hadleywickham
@hadleywickham combination, and b/c way fewer r-cran-* pkgs than CRAN content hence a number directly in /usr/local via the littler helpers.
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Replying to @hadleywickham
Oh, so you are reimplementing littler's update.r script? MT @hadleywickham working on a way to automatically find out if new version avail.
A first draft agenda for R / Finance 2011 is now posted, and it looks rocking! http://goo.gl/eb3J4
Replying to @drewconway
@drewconway @pkedrosky As of tomorrow you get pre-releases as part of the testing for the Apr 13 release of R 2.13.0 http://goo.gl/3s1kE
Replying to @revodavid
@revodavid I prefer ISO date formats in which case I will have to wait quite a tad longer for pi day.
Replying to @jim2
@jim2 @jeffjarvis Have you see http://identi.ca based on http://status.net ?
Replying to @drewconway
@drewconway @mjbommar @cmastication @revodavid Very flattering Drew, but my wife will take the other side in size if a bet comes up.
Replying to @mjbommar
@mjbommar @cmastication @revodavid But XDR != XDF and the latter is, sadly, classic closed-source one-vendor-only.
Easiest signal-to-noise ratio boost: unfollow everybody sending nothing but 4sq.com messages. Two down, more to come...
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RcppArmadillo 0.2.16 now on CRAN, more details at http://goo.gl/ddRUZ
Registration for R/Finance 2011 is now open! Go to http://goo.gl/uftQb to register and see http://goo.gl/4A0mO for conference details.
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