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R Project and Google Summer of Code: Welcome to our students!

April 26, 2010
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A few hours ago, I sent the following to both the R development list and the informal R / GSoC list: Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:27:29 -0500 To: R Development List CC: gsoc-r Subject: R and the Google Summer of Code 2010 -- Please welcome our new st...

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R Project and Google Summer of Code: Welcome to our students!

April 26, 2010
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A few hours ago, I sent the following to both the R development list and the informal R / GSoC list: Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:27:29 -0500 To: R Development List CC: gsoc-r Subject: R and the Google Summer of Code 2010 -- Please welcome our new st...

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R / Finance 2010 presentations

April 20, 2010
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Last Friday and Saturday the second R / Finance conference took place in Chicago on the UIC campus. As a co-organizer, it was a great pleasure to see so many users of R in Finance---from both industry and academia---come to Chicago to discuss and sh...

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R / Finance 2010 presentations

April 20, 2010
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Last Friday and Saturday the second R / Finance conference took place in Chicago on the UIC campus. As a co-organizer, it was a great pleasure to see so many users of R in Finance---from both industry and academia---come to Chicago to discuss and sh...

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Rcpp 0.7.12

April 16, 2010
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A new bug fix versions 0.7.12 of Rcpp is awaiting inclusion into CRAN and Debian. It is also available from here. This is another bug-fix version related solely to a build failure on Windows. Trying to protect paths with spaces has the side-effect...

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Video of UCLA / LA RUG talk on R and C++ integration

April 7, 2010
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Thanks to the efforts of the tireless R User Group organizers Szilard Pafka (in Los Angeles, recording the talk) and Drew Conway (in New York, converting and organising hosting), there is now a video and slide combo of my recent talk about Rcpp and R...

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Video of UCLA / LA RUG talk on R and C++ integration

April 7, 2010
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Thanks to the efforts of the tireless R User Group organizers Szilard Pafka (in Los Angeles, recording the talk) and Drew Conway (in New York, converting and organising hosting), there is now a video and slide combo of my recent talk about Rcpp and R...

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UCLA and LA RUG talks on R and C++ integration

April 4, 2010
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We spent last week in the LA area and had a generally good time out west. I was able to sneak in two talks and a group discussion, thanks to the help by Jan de Leeuw (and everybody at UCLA's Stats department) as well as by Szilard Pafka representing ...

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UCLA and LA RUG talks on R and C++ integration

April 4, 2010
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We spent last week in the LA area and had a generally good time out west. I was able to sneak in two talks and a group discussion, thanks to the help by Jan de Leeuw (and everybody at UCLA's Stats department) as well as by Szilard Pafka representing ...

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Finance::YahooQuote 0.24

March 26, 2010
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Having espoused rule number one in regression testing in the post about yesterday's bug fix upload 0.23, we can now add rule number zero: Do not introduce a new error by omitting the trailing semicolon. I guess it shows that I don't really program in...

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