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Juggling with fire

July 27, 2010

People were juggling with fire sur la place de la Comedie tonight in Montpellier

I was in useR! last week, it was great to catch up with friends, see what people are doing with R, tell people what I am doing with R, etc ... the conference was great This year I presented with Dirk in Laurel and Hardy mode and I've uploaded our ...

Rcpp 0.8.4

July 10, 2010

By romain francois

Dirk uploaded Rcpp 0.8.4 to CRAN yesterday. This release quickly follows the release of Rcpp 0.8.3, because there was some building problems (particularly on the ppc arch on OSX).

Rcpp sugar

Already available in Rcpp 0.8.3, the new sugar feature was extended in 0.8.4 to cover...

bibtex 0.2-1

July 10, 2010

By romain francois

I've uploaded version 0.2-1 of my bibtex package to CRAN. This release anticipates changes in R 2.12.0, and structures bibtex entries in object of the new class bibentry. The release also fixes various parser and lexer bugs

Les estivales 2010

July 9, 2010

By romain francois

Les estivales 2010 ont commencées à montpellier.

Rmetrics slides

June 30, 2010

By romain francois

I presented Rcpp at the Rmetrics conference earlier today, this was a really good opportunity to look back at all the work Dirk and I have been commiting into Rcpp. I've uploaded my slides here (pdf) and on slideshare : Rcpp: Seemless R and C++V...

Rcpp 0.8.1

June 8, 2010

By romain francois

We released Rcpp 0.8.0 almost a month ago. It finalized our efforts in designing a better, faster and more natural API than any version of Rcpp ever before. The journey from Rcpp 0.7.0 to

graph gallery collage

June 3, 2010

By romain francois

It does not quite respect the one color only requirements of the mango's t-shirt contest, but I played with Shape Collage and the graphics from the graph gallery to make this

inline 0.3.5

June 2, 2010

By romain francois

The inline package is an amazing, yet simple, package for R. It allows to dynamically (within the R session) define R functions and S4 methods with inlined C/C++/Fortran code. Together with RUnit, inline powers the entire unit test suite of Rcpp. ...

highlight 0.2-0

May 31, 2010

By romain francois

I've released version 0.2-0 of highlight to CRAN This version brings some more additions to the sweave driver that uses highlight to produce nice looking vignettes with color coded R chunks The driver gains new arguments boxes, bg and border to c...