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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Needed: Browser plugin turning all
... using a Spark cluster ...
uses into
... using Lotus 123 spreadsheets ...
Any takers?
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Letting Travis keep a secret
Short note on using an encrypted token with @travisci and @github
goo.gl/qQTg6j
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Very useful and promising debugging helpers, now in their own CRAN package.
#rstats
Please share/Tweet: Announcing the “wrapr" packge for R
win-vector.com/blog/2017/02/…
#R #rlang #rstats #programming #debugging
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anytime 0.2.1 on CRAN: fixes and features
Parse any time or date object without a format string
goo.gl/1gnpNE
#rstats
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You had me a 'irascible halfwit'.
@Economist on satire in the age of Drumpf, with a tip of the head to @TheOnion
Barack Obama was too cool, too funny and too moderate to be good for satire. Not so @realDonaldTrump economist.com/news/united-st…
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RcppArmadillo 0.7.700.0.0 on CRAN: Upstream update
Powerful and expressive C++ matrix library
goo.gl/1Yvvbf
#rstats
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random 0.2.6: maintenance
R access to 'true' hardware RNGs
goo.gl/AvNNeg
#rstats
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RcppCCTZ 0.2.1: Small fix
R interface to the CCTZ times and timezone library
goo.gl/aZ4uIE
#rstats
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nanotime 0.1.1: a few improvements and fixes
Nanosecond time resolution class for R
goo.gl/RgY9Us
#rstats
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Proposal: We may need a curated CRANalerts feed / handle for "don't upgrade" messages when bad releases happen.
Who can / will do it?
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RPushbullet 0.3.0 on CRAN: new features, refactored
R inter-device messaging and notification
goo.gl/yLdZEE
#rstats
/cc @wenchel
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. @eddelbuettel @rstudio At last, Emacs in RStudio :)
Details: Ubuntu 16.10, RStudio "daily" 1.1.62.
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You are very welcome. It really rock(er)s -- we use for similar tricks and more as documented in the 2+ years of the project.
rocker project for Docker helped get a needed #Rstats pkg up and running. Thanks @eddelbuettel @cboettig & team github.com/rocker-org/rocker…
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"In the future, every country will be in the Axis of Evil for 15 minutes."
#notAndyWarhol
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Neat! And seurat looks like a great tool (though not from my problem) domain. Gratifying to see Rcpp used widely.
github.com/satijalab/seurat nitter.vloup.ch/timtriche/status…
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Big congratulations to @gbwanderson whose new package 'hurricaneexposure' just became package 10,000 on CRAN !!
9999 packages on CRAN right now, so imagine dozens of R nerds hanging in suspense waiting for the package to make it 10k ...
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See @MattDowle celebrate data.table question 5000 on StackOverflow with a neat little tutorial answer using Rcpp.
stackoverflow.com/a/41891693…
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digest 0.6.12 on CRAN: even more sha1
Compute hash digests of arbitrary R objects
goo.gl/1a58T4
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That could also be another way for Open Source authors to get paid...
Would cut down the "please tell me how to use your package" mails.
Really interesting pattern. nitter.vloup.ch/bhorowitz/status…
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