Data Science. TileDB. Open Source. Quant Research. R. C++. Debian. Linux. Adjunct Clinical Professor, University of Illinois. Lots of coffee. And some running.
littler 0.3.5 on CRAN: Other kids broke my toys
Everybody's favourite way to rock R at the command-line and in scripts
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Fantastic show last night at the Jazz Record Art Collective on W Hubbard: the Chad McCullough Sextet mastered the incomparable "Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis. With thanks to Chris Anderson and @WDCBPublicRadio.
Here is the final song: Flamenco Sketches
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MUST READ: "So everything is just a pile of barely working code added on top of previously written barely working code. It keeps growing in size and complexity, diminishing any chance for a change." tonsky.me/blog/disenchantmen… 💯 👍
binb 0.0.1 on CRAN: binb is not Beamer
Crisp Beamer PDF slides from RMarkdown
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Following the proud tradition of our tint, pinp and linl packages
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Glad you like it--this is why I mentored a @GSoc student to create a @postgresql package for #rstats back in 2008, or a decade ago.
RPostgreSQL is still going strong, but like any other Open Source project could do with fresh love and enthusiasm. Maybe you, maybe another reader.
Tip for referees of resubmissions:
draftable.com/compare will compare text across 2 pdfs. It even highlighted changes in table notes. Super useful!
Note: this is a screenshot comparing one of MY papers before and after a revision, NOT the paper I'm reviewing today.
digest 0.6.17 on CRAN: more robustification
Hash digests for arbitrary R objects
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Special thanks to Radford Neal for this one
There are several volunteers for different Linux distros; eg @marutter covers @Ubuntu, based on / extending what I do in @Debian -- and I do think that these two are best supported.
@cboettiger and I use both for the Rocker containers for @Docker, look there for more tricks.
AsioHeaders 1.12.1-1 on CRAN: New upstream
Cross-platform C++ library for network and low-level I/O
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With special thanks to @jcheng for the nice PR.