Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel

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
dirk.eddelbuettel.com
Joined March 2007
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anytime 0.0.2 on CRAN: more functionality and fixes convert _anything_ to POSIXct and Date goo.gl/KpnoEo #rstats #rcpp
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New package anytime 0.0.1 now on CRAN Convert "anything" to POSIXt or Date goo.gl/UdpBf9 #rstats #rcpp
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New package gettz on CRAN: provides timezone fallback goo.gl/D65vd4 #rstats
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Intriguing: Luke Tierney on a 'simple package-level mmap' github.com/ltierney/Rpkg-sim…

GitHub - ALTREP-examples/Rpkg-simplemmap: R package implementing an ALTREP class for memory-mapped...

R package implementing an ALTREP class for memory-mapped vectors. - GitHub - ALTREP-examples/Rpkg-simplemmap: R package implementing an ALTREP class for memory-mapped vectors.

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RProtoBuf 0.4.6 on CRAN: bug fixes goo.gl/9gBXcr #rstats
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"If we extrapolate [...], then by 2025 every [...] paper will have an error." Friends don't let friends use Excel. nitter.vloup.ch/EconomistOnce/st…
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Rcpp 0.12.7 on CRAN with several updates goo.gl/kwaCvP #rcpp #rstats
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Andrew Clark @pssGuy
4 Sep 2016
Congrats @eddelbuettel et al #rstats Rcpp pkge first to reach 5m CRAN downloads from @rstudio ht @GaborCsardi
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"Every tactical vehicle in the U.S. Army runs at least one piece of #opensource software." #security #OSS #FOSS cnas.org/sites/default/files…
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RProtoBuf 0.4.5 on CRAN -- with proto3 support goo.gl/A8yFFo #rstats
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rfoaas 1.1.0 on CRAN with six new accessors #rstats goo.gl/gsqulU
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Gary King @kinggary
28 Aug 2016
How many more ways do we need to learn that Excel is not a serious tool for scientific research? cc @drmaltman ow.ly/8Gjg303EhWE

An alarming number of scientific papers contain Excel errors

Excel's default settings are causing scientific screw-ups

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xkcd @xkcd_rss
26 Aug 2016
Linear Regression xkcd.com/1725/
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RcppArmadillo 0.7.400.2.0 release on CRAN: updated upstream goo.gl/q7Z2vz #rstats #rcpp
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman
25 Aug 2016
Very sad day for jazz: Genius engineer Rudy Van Gelder, architect of the sublime "Blue Note sound," has died. theatlantic.com/notes/2016/0…

A Musical Tribute to Rudy Van Gelder

The legendary jazz engineer died on Thursday at the age of 91. To get a sense of his talents, listen to this recording of Thelonious Monk’s “Hackensack."

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I love few things more than the competition [1] handicapping itself on purpose. [1] As in day job.
Joshua Ulrich @joshua_ulrich
25 Aug 2016
+1 I mainly write in plain C to annoy @eddelbuettel. That's also the main reason I use vim.
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OS Souverain 🇫🇷 @ossouverain
25 Aug 2016
Rappel ceci est un signe religieux ostentatoires interdit sur certaines plages de France.
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Turn it upside-down: use cloud.r-project.org A CDN is always network-close to you (+ big thanks to @RStudio)
Mark van der Loo | @markvanderloo@mathstodon.xyz @markvdloo
24 Aug 2016
inside-r.org used to have a handy "download R" button detecting your system. Anybody know of an alternative? #rstats
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Hear, hear! It is about responsible choice of license and compatibility. Let's be done with the moralizing.
Software Freedom Conservancy @conservancy
24 Aug 2016
At @linuxfoundation's #LinuxCon, Linus #Torvalds says: "I love the #GPLv2" & " idea that you have to give back". #LInuxCon2016 #Linux
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WILCO @Wilco
22 Aug 2016
Goodnight, Chicago
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