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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That is a rich topic in its full generality (do you need to compile the resource or not?) when reflecting the full set of OSs (windows can be tricky).
A pre-print of mine discusses it but even that cannot cover all aspects. #rstats
arxiv.org/abs/1911.06416
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We had a three-year pilot with RStudio Cloud 'campus-wide' (which worked well for my course) but for 'reasons' that ended. Now aiming to get a standard server (we just bought) ready in a standard rack managed by campus / college IT. Old-school can be simpler. #rstats
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Very related: description of @Google's Linux distro now uses rolling @Debian releases at weekly frequency, as opposed to bi-annual @Ubuntu LTS releases taking a year to deploy firm-wide.
"Rolling" incremental updates are the way to go for #Rstats too.
cloud.google.com/blog/topics…
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"Legit" may mean different things to different people.
You are allowed to specify a constraint, but it may upset people stuck with R 4.1.* on non-Windows platforms.
I would condition out the offending code. #rstats 4.1 is old-rel and will be gone in nine months anyway.
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And there is a package for that too "because friends don't let friends make plain `curl` calls".
cloud.r-project.org/package=…
Chambers (2016, p4): "Everything that happens in R is a function call."
He called those _fundamental principles_ for a reason.
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Hey @rhub_ and @RConsortium it has been a week since the gentle poke, and over two weeks since RHub turned off Windows and Linux builds.
The silence is a little deafening. Nothing? Really?
#rstats #concerned
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This was just wonderful. First half with full orchester lead by @gabrielkahane, second half usual small band. Both parts are extraordinary. Watched the second part (from 58m onwards) three times since...
As a former German + French resident (and tax payer): Danke + Merci @ARTEen
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> gaussfact()
The monster group is scared of Gauss.
> gaussfact()
Gauss doesn't do Lagrange multiplers - for him there are no constraints!
> gaussfact()
Gauss can colour any map using only one colour.
> gaussfact()
Gauss once constructed the set of all sets in his head.
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gaussfacts - Display a random fact about Carl Friedrich Gauss based the on collection curated by Mike Cavers via the <gaussfacts.com> site. #rstats github.com/eddelbuettel/gaus…
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This is epic.
And it reminds of my first week at work as a fresh-out-of-grad-school quant (some 25 yrs ago) where this grizzled corporate bond trader (and a legend in Canadian Fixed Income) leans over and just barks in my direction: "hey, cost center".
Ah, the memories.
without a doubt, at every startup I've worked at, the first bizops hire is the beginning of the end. it's the biggest possible signal to get the fuck out of there, because in 2 months some kid is going to be asking you to fill out an OKR spreadsheet
emcap.com/thoughts/bizops-wh…
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Also, updating 'leaf' (or 'near-leaf') packages with no (or few) reverse dependencies is still the best at CRAN: Seven minutes net. #ThankYouCRAN #RStats
It is of course also worth the occassional weekly wait (as for Rcpp), or test discussion. Quality matters, and CRAN rules.
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rfoaas 2.3.3 on CRAN: New upstream, six new accessors
A RESTful interface for R to the excellent @FOAAS service
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2…
#rstats
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Not so. My CRANberries code has been running (now on an hourly cronjob) for fifteen years. I have owned production jobs that ran for years.
CRAN ensures an absence of fundamental breakage. You can combine that with your knowledge and experience to pick packages that behave.
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Achievement unlocked: A package of mine has been meme-ified in Spanish.
Per Google Translates, my `anytime` package helped simplify / be an alternate for a tutorial on how to survice Ex#%l date messes.
Really glad it was of help. I use it all the myself too. #rstats
Hice un tutorial sobre cómo corregir los campos de fechas en Excel en #rstats que siempre es un bardo y armé un lindo post (ponele) para compartir con la comunidad de #rstats_es y del @club_rrhh
rpubs.com/Data4HR/cargar-fec…
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