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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Paging @mattyglesias to amplify. He had some good recent ideas about where to get railroad management expertise from. (Hint: not cargo rail, not air travel)
A TV show I would love to watch is a railway construction crew is brought in from Spain or Finland to the US and has to work with an American crew on some railway project. Lots of scenes where inefficiencies are surfaced and the foreigners shake their heads in disbelief
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Department of (my / undergrad) kid these days calling!!
Congratulation to @julia_edd on having her name up at
@NBERpubs, and big thanks to her coauthors @cawley_john, @MattDEisenberg and @adm5alan
(as well as the twitterless ones) for shepherding her!
#EconTwitter
An examination of how consumers responded when Starbucks began voluntarily posting calorie counts on its menu boards, from Rosemary Avery, @cawley_john, @julia_edd, @MattDEisenberg, Charlie Mann, and @Adm5Alan nber.org/papers/w29080
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
I'm getting very tired of reading news about Prob(Vaccinated | Infected) rather than Prob(Infected | Vaccinated).
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RcppAnnoy 0.0.19 on CRAN: Maintenance
(Very Fast) Approximate Nearest Neighbours for R
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2…
#rstats #rcpp #ThankYouCRAN
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But R Core (has to) value stability, the proposal is a breaking change :-/
When I used Windows (decades ago) I did what @obrl_soil described :
- use, say, R:/opt/R/R-4.1.0 with version
- place R:/opt/R/library/ next to it to persist
- set $HOME
Still works...
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Yes. Better yet, `install.packages()` can pull in .deb binaries (!!) with over 5k Ubuntu LTS binaries, or, for those who prefer Fedora or OpenUSE, even ~ 16k binaries. Pre-made, with proper depends.
See eg arxiv.org/abs/2103.08069 and the useR talk by @Enchufa2 and me
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RcppFarmHash 0.0.1 on CRAN: New Package
R interface to Google FarmHash Family of Hashes
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#rcpp #rstats #ThankYouCRAN
/cc @johnmsheffield
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Yes, from/with Emacs via the standard modes supporting, and using the free version only which croaks every now and then about max repo / code size.
Integration works well and is actually ... quite impressive if creepy. Works for 'all' languages not just #rstats.
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littler 0.3.13 on CRAN: Moar Goodies
Everybody's favourite way to rock R at the command-line and in scripts
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
14 student scholars from around the country participated in the first annual Blackwell Summer Scholars Program at @Illinois_Alma this summer. The scholars worked on research projects, attended seminars, and worked with faculty mentors during the program.
stat.illinois.edu/news/2021-…
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Call Rcpp.package.skeleton("RcppFarmHash")
Copy farmhash.{h,cc} into its src/ dir.
Build it.
Almost done: add more interface functions.
> RcppFarmHash::farmhash("The quick brown fox")
[1] 1.79294e+19
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github.com/eddelbuettel/rcpp…
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RcppSpdlog 0.0.6 on CRAN: New upstream
Modern C++ logging for R extension package
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/cc @gabi_melman @vzverovich
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pkgKitten 0.2.2 on CRAN: Small Update
Creating packages that purr
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Very nice and clear talk indeed. But credit where credit is due: AFAIK that line actually comes from @joshua_ulrich (and is listed at the top of tinyverse.org)
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Following up on his 'Fifth Risk', I now read 'The Premonition' by Michael Lewis. The books make a good pair, but the latter one is even more frustrating in detailing just how we failed to respond (in time, and at scale) this thread. And yet we're still in this battle.
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ttdo 0.0.8 on CRAN: Micro-Tweak
Colorized diffs for tinytest unit test predicates
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#rstats #tinytest #ThankYouCRAN
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