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
Joined March 2007
anytime 0.2.2 on CRAN: fixing more corner cases Automagically convert any (reasonable) input to Date or POSIXct goo.gl/HNqRMQ
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Rcpp 0.12.10 on CRAN: Some fixes and minor enhancements goo.gl/fVQhO7 #rcpp #rstats
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John Chambers, "Extending R", (2016, p4) states "3rd Principle": "Interfaces to other Software are part of R."
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Inspiring...wish I'd done something this good while in grad school! immigrantdoctors.org/
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Four maintenance releases: - RProtoBuf 0.4.9 - RVowpalWabbit 0.0.9 - RcppGSL 0.3.2 - RcppSMC 0.1.5 More at goo.gl/szoJJj
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And the @Debian package has been updated And the builders are busy building: buildd.debian.org/status/pac…
#rstats R 3.3.3 "Another Canoe" source release is out now
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New scope and author guidelines for The R Journal journal.r-project.org/share/…
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
A brief account of what happened at Houston International Airport huffingtonpost.com/entry/is-…
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Underappreciated swiss-army command-line chainsaw. "Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for [...] CSV, TSV, and [...] JSON."
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The @Debian package has already been updated. Corresponding packages for Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 are in my PPA.
#QuantLib 1.9.2 released. Get it at quantlib.org/download.shtml. Very short list of changes at quantlib.org/reference/histo….
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Listening to @Wilco live at the Chicago Theater on @93xrt having seen them there on Thursday. As they said, we sang better on Thursday.
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How do you know it is spring in Chicago? You walk up to four @DivvyBikes stations and find zero bikes. Sunny and 50s. Check.
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dat aims to be for data what git is for (source) code
Today we’re announcing the release of Dat Desktop, a peer to peer data sharing app built for humans. Try it out: datproject.org/
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And here is @RStudio bringing Xmas in February: moar git! (for those pour souls who have not yet found @magit_emacs) #rstats
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New Rcpp Gallery post: RcppMLPACK2 Using the mlpack machine learning library from R goo.gl/cFqhGL #rstats
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Two neat new Rcpp additions to CRAN: dlib and RcppBlaze. R and C++ are alive and well. Exciting times. More at dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranbe…
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