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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You can always take advantage of binaries from a LTS release on a newer releases---so you have a choice of both RSPM (per Grant) or BSPM (my pref, using the PPA) for pre-made binaries making installation faster and easier.
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Well in a narrow sense *every one* of the 4000+ compiled packages on CRAN can and many do so as they all (can) have Makevars dot win and configure dot win, and many use it to good effect. But you probably want to talk to @opencpu...
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And here is a thread about it from the @nytimes:
a team of one hundred to support the coronavirus case data collection and analysis. And, as of today, a truly well deserved Pulitzer Prize for Public Service!! Sincere congratulations!
You may have seen The NYT’s coronavirus case map. It's part of a sprawling data effort that involved over 100 journalists. We learned today our work was part of an entry that received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Here’s how the project came to be.
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And as nobody reads blogs anymore, here is the direct video link with @VincentAB, @grant_mcdermott and myself in supporting roles -- and starring #Emacs, #RStats and #byobu in the lead. A thrilling nail biter about collaboration in them interweb clouds:
youtube.com/JX9m5B0BL7s
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Yes, @RStudio Cloud is good -- I taught my data science programming class (cf stat447.com) using it three times now. Essentially zero setup issues. At U of Illinois we have a campus-wide contract, and students pay around $5/month. #rstats
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R^4 #33 and T^4 Video #8: Collaborative Editing and Execution via Byobu
Share a session with collaborators to jointly edit and run code, including #RStats
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2…
With @grant_mcdermott and @VincentAB
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Public data, public health -- so below is some public code too. The @rdatatable and #ggplot2 combination makes it a breeze. #rstats for the win
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Fifteen years ago, I gave the talk 'Use R! in fifteen different ways: A survey of R front-ends in Quantian' at useR! 2006 showing what I put into the Quantian cdrom/dvd.
Slides with screenshots (for Linux, no Win or Mac) at
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/papers…
#rstats
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Yes, traceable from tar.gz release and git/svn. We have
- the Windows GUI by B. Ripley + G. Mazarotto
- Unix Gnome-2 GUI (which we wrapped as Debian binary too)
- and maxOS / osX always had something.
See video of @RogerBivand at celebRation last year for windows.
#rstats
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Inflated count that does not correct for 'deceased' packages. The official #RStats package count is (currently) this:
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Yes. But I showed Docker here because it makes the example self-contained. I run the same setup (which maybe I should document again outside of this Dockerfile) on another machine and it just *rocks* so hard that the usual `update.packages()` then pulls _binaries_. #rstats
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Yes! Had an eight-minute round from submission to publication today.
But incentives are misaligned: happens mostly to packages with i) no / few reverse dependencies and ii) little / no compiled code (very easy to trip up). Yet it iii) encourages status OK which is good.
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td 0.0.4 on CRAN: More Maintenance
R access to @TwelveData Financial Data API
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2…
#rstats
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Thanks to the @gretl_stats team to invite me to the Gretl 2021 Conference to talk a little about the now 21 years (!!) of maintaining Gretl inside @Debian. The slides, with some asides on @Docker / #RockerProject and (recent) @obshq comments are now on my site.
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inline 0.3.19 on CRAN: Another Update
Inline C, C++ and Fortran programs with ease in your R code
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2…
#RStats
/cc @JohannesRanke
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True but my focus is on equities as I still run a '4:15' portfolio (p&l and risk) report over my accounts, using the same non-R code I wrote 20 years ago, and which should get rewritten in #RStats "real soon now". As I have been saying for 20 years now too...
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