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
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Joined March 2007
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Rcpp 0.12.2 with a nice set of incremental changes goo.gl/Va7pY1 #rcpp #rstats
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Replying to @GaborCsardi
@GaborCsardi I still disagree. IMHO we need R CMD ... patched to call roxy + compAttr. But less sure about need for outer wrapper
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Disagree. The fallacy of one language for all and everything has already done in other camps.
Davor Cubranic @OddsAndBits
13 Nov 2015
Yes please: when your entire toolchain is #rstats, keep your build automation in R.
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Clarifies citation requirements in Description: field via one new paragraph. #rstats
CRAN Policy Watch @CRANPolicyWatch
9 Nov 2015
New CRAN Repository Policy rev3413 posted, history at github.com/eddelbuettel/crp/… #rstats
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How does it compare to R Core member Uwe Ligges's 2005 @SpringerStats book?
Data Science Fact @DataSciFact
9 Nov 2015
R Programming github.com/elmar-hinz/Buch.R… // In German
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Overall minor changes: minor edits for https, additional notes on reverse depends. #rstats
CRAN Policy Watch @CRANPolicyWatch
8 Nov 2015
New CRAN Repository Policy rev3412 posted, history at github.com/eddelbuettel/crp/… #rstats
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Fair take, but a few weeks late.
Emanuel Derman @EmanuelDerman
6 Nov 2015
With all the fashion for factor investing, I think it's time for a Nobel for Steve Ross, founder of APT theory & cofounder of binomial model
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Yeesh, no. We had 'r' since 2006; Rscript a bit later. Either is MUCH better than this. And littler is now on CRAN.
One R Tip a Day @RLangTip
6 Nov 2015
Run an R script from the command line in batch mode with R CMD BATCH: bit.ly/qRgbld #rstats
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And a "this is terrible make it go away NOW" one, please.
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View of Boston from Cambridge #EARL2015 @earlconf
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This will be a gamer changer. A big thank you to everybody involved who got us to this step! #rstats
R Consortium @RConsortium
2 Nov 2015
R Consortium Awards First Grant to Help Advance Popular Programming Language for Unlocking Value from Data bit.ly/1GY2veN #rstats
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bashcookbook @bashcookbook
30 Oct 2015
Do you type this a lot: cmd 2>&1 | other - to redirect both std out & std err into the pipe? Now there's a shorthand: cmd |& other
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GSL 2.0 announced after multi-year hiatus -- very _scary_ on Halloween! sourceware.org/ml/gsl-announ…
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Replying to @CMastication
@CMastication @JennyBryan Indeed. Only uncultured savages use snake_case.
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Replying to @JennyBryan
@JennyBryan I was thinking more along the lines of WarumZumTeufelVerschwendeIchSoVielZeitAufTwitter #makingItUpAsWeGoAlong
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littler 0.3.0 released -- and now on CRAN goo.gl/eSs271 #rstats #rockingTheCommandLineWithR
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Getting some kudos is always nice -- this one our 'running R in @docker' Rocker containers. /cc @cboettig
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Replying to @daroczig
@daroczig @GaborCsardi With my 'Debian maintainer for this too' hat on: That package will continue too.
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Replying to @daroczig
@daroczig @GaborCsardi I like `/usr/bin/env r` for which you need to (once !) create a softlink. On OS X you may need to use 'lr' instead.
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Replying to @JennyBryan
@JennyBryan @kwbroman @thosjleeper so (implicitly) yelling "ya'll doing it wrong" at successful group of grownups is not popular with them?
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