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
Ever need to read or write R Data files from C / C++ ? Ie access / create RData or rds but without R itself ? librdata by @EvMill has you covered, and he and I just cleaned up some build and usage issues. Take it for a spin. github.com/WizardMac/librdat…
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RVowpalWabbit 0.0.12 on CRAN: Stricly Maintenance R Interface to the 'Vowpal Wabbit' fast out-of-core learner R Core / CRAN requested maintenance change goo.gl/onjtcc #rstats
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there's also the great RPushbullet pkg from @eddelbuettel dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/r…
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"Falling in love with code means falling in love with problem solving and being a part of a forever ongoing conversation.” - Kathryn Barrett
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The latest issue of the R Journal is out! journal.r-project.org/archiv… Be sure to check out, "An Introduction to Rocker: Docker Containers for R" by @eddelbuettel and @cboettig #rstats
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digest 0.6.15 and RVowpalWabbit 0.0.11 on CRAN: Mostly Maintenance - Create Compact Hash Digests of R Objects - R Interface to the 'Vowpal Wabbit' fast out-of-core learner Two R Core / CRAN requested maintenance changes goo.gl/usjWqv #rstats
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prrd 0.0.2 on CRAN: Several important enhancement Parallel Running [of] Reverse Depends goo.gl/s88JyY #rstats (Now with typo fixed)
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
Stack Overflow just released a keyboard
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Several times CRAN maintainers and R developers have gone out of their way to help me fix problems with my packages or make them better. Props. nitter.vloup.ch/hughparsonage/st…
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Rblpapi 0.3.8 on CRAN: Mostly maintenance Direct and efficient R interface to Bloomberg Terminal goo.gl/mhfKvJ #rstats #rcpp Also, Dirk can't add ones. Should have been 0.3.7. My bad for the typo.
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R^4 #15: tidyverse and data.table, sitting side-by-side ... (part 1) Using a simple example to compare and contrast two approaches goo.gl/o92xJe #rstats h/t @gelliottmorris
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Yes it was but you *really* want the second segment with Kate McKinnon *killing it* as Robert Mueller. 4:55 into this clip: youtube.com/b60iiT4VWKc?t=4m55s
I rarely tweet SNL (or any) videos but this week’s Weekend Update is 🔥 youtube.com/_4Sk1R2RxvY
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Rcpp 0.12.15 on CRAN: Lots of nice enhancements Seamless R and C++ Integration goo.gl/HJr7bf #rcpp #rstats
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Friday just got 2x better. Annoy uses AVX instructions and 2x faster thanks to Rene Hollander! github.com/spotify/annoy/pul…
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RcppMsgPack 0.2.1: Enhancements and a small Fix Efficient Binary Serialization of Data Structures goo.gl/F8KwVu #rstats #rcpp
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How could I have forgotten? But I think those were more innocent times and we were just having beers at that bar ... And definitely in favor of catching up on open science, coffee and beer. Not sure how the schedule(s) will pan out.
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Thrilled to share that I am now a Clinical Professor of Statistics and Data Science in the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As an adjunct for now, so one course per year.
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digest 0.6.14 on CRAN: Maintenance release Create Compact Hash Digests of R Objects goo.gl/1VmpJU #rstats
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
Truth is I contribute in Q&A sites for the same reason Hansel and Gretel drop bread crumbs: to find my way home when I'm lost
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