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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Suggests != Depends
Some CRAN packages are doing it wrong, and I will skip testing them.
goo.gl/Dfq87G
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anytime 0.2.2 on CRAN: fixing more corner cases
Automagically convert any (reasonable) input to Date or POSIXct
goo.gl/HNqRMQ
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John Chambers, "Extending R", (2016, p4) states "3rd Principle":
"Interfaces to other Software are part of R."
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Four maintenance releases:
- RProtoBuf 0.4.9
- RVowpalWabbit 0.0.9
- RcppGSL 0.3.2
- RcppSMC 0.1.5
More at goo.gl/szoJJj
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Underappreciated swiss-army command-line chainsaw.
"Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for [...] CSV, TSV, and [...] JSON."
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The @Debian package has already been updated.
Corresponding packages for Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 are in my PPA.
#QuantLib 1.9.2 released. Get it at quantlib.org/download.shtml. Very short list of changes at quantlib.org/reference/histo….
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How do you know it is spring in Chicago?
You walk up to four @DivvyBikes stations and find zero bikes.
Sunny and 50s. Check.
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dat aims to be for data what git is for (source) code
Today we’re announcing the release of Dat Desktop, a peer to peer data sharing app built for humans.
Try it out: datproject.org/
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And here is @RStudio bringing Xmas in February: moar git!
(for those pour souls who have not yet found @magit_emacs)
#rstats
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New Rcpp Gallery post: RcppMLPACK2
Using the mlpack machine learning library from R
goo.gl/cFqhGL
#rstats
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Two neat new Rcpp additions to CRAN: dlib and RcppBlaze.
R and C++ are alive and well. Exciting times.
More at dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranbe…
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Well I still beg to differ. "In theory" the new scheme should work. But "In practice" @gbanderson was stuck. My PR fixed it. Your move?
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Just donated to Hate Has No Home Here
via my local Oak Park / River Forest @gofundme branch
gofund.me/hate-has-no-home-h…
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New Rcpp Gallery post: Using RcppArmadillo with SuperLU
C++ Matrix Algebra with sparse solvers
goo.gl/Dnn4bw
/cc @KKusingR
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RPushbullet 0.3.1 on CRAN: some fixes, more extension
Inter-device messaging from R
goo.gl/jnK1ej
#rstats
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littler 0.3.2 on CRAN: several new example scripts
The first (and still the best) command-line interface to R
goo.gl/6ijVGJ
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These guys continue to bring the works. Recommended.
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