Data Science. TileDB. Open Source. Quant Research. R. C++. Debian. Linux. Adjunct Clinical Professor, University of Illinois. Lots of coffee. And some running.
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Joined March 2007
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Doh, Mersenne Twister. Or Modified Tweet. Depends on context :) @sfalcon: @eddelbuettel what's MT?
Scope for a review paper on how R, Stata, Matlab, Python, ... handle this! MT @drewconway: shocked how low the bar was to ge onto PyPl
Of course we are. For truth, beauty and cheaper beer. Did I miss anything? @cmastication: I think we're on the same team.
@cmastication In all seriousness, I would like BioC-style peer review, but you can't do at CRAN scale and without being domain-specific.
Jackpot for weakest possible non-content cop-out MT @cmastication: you may be misreading my comment as criticism. It's just reality.
@drewconway Now use the twitter API to find power law scaling in tweets about power laws MT This made my morning http://bit.ly/egWRsP
@cmastication: To be constructive: provide examples of better repos to emulate. AFAICT Python, Ruby, Perl, ... don't have nuttin' either.
Strongly disagree. Forces docs, codetools, etc; is not 'editorial' by choice @cmastication: CRAN is minimal in functionality or usefulness.
Please justify 'minimal' -- R CMD check is pretty exhaustive in my book MT @cmastication CRAN enforces [very minimal] standards completely.
RQuantLib 0.3.7 now on CRAN, and once again with Windows binaries thanks to Josh Ulrich http://goo.gl/fmi6M #rstats
That was a key takeaway from Harrell's excellent useR 2010 keynote MT @gappy3000: Discretizing a continuous var. is usually a bad idea.
Patches/extension welcome! @RforFinance Compiling Quantlib needed as a dep for compiling RQuantLib. Thanks @eddelbuettel for making this.
Rich gone, Herbert leaving and we have to pay in two days? RT @mattyglesias Bob Herbert's final column is a good one: j.mp/gTHZfS
New post: Easily embedding R inside a Qt application with a full example of the 'density slider'. http://goo.gl/zWjeR
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@geoffjentry @jeffreyhorner Yes you can if you bundle -- that is the one thing win-builder is good for. But sucking lib sources in is wrong.
@geoffjentry @jeffreyhorner Same here. An open issue, and a thankless job that nobody has stepped forward to fix. Won't change soon I fear.
@geoffjentry Now it's twice the fun for the same price as you get to everything in 32 and 64 bit.
@geoffjentry Needed qualifier: all of those are joint work with others but I still get a ton of fan mail asking for Windoze binaries. Sigh.
@geoffjentry If I had nickel for every time that comes up with QuantLib, ProtoBuf, PostgreSQL, ... all of which I wrapped to R I'd be rich.