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Beancounter minor bug fix release 0.8.9

December 23, 2009
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Another small update to beancounter and just like the previous release due to changes in Perl's Date::Manip. It seems that Date_Calc now really wants a reference to store error codes, so we supply one. I also changed the FX code to use OandA ad there ...

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Beancounter minor bug fix release 0.8.9

December 23, 2009
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Another small update to beancounter and just like the previous release due to changes in Perl's Date::Manip. It seems that Date_Calc now really wants a reference to store error codes, so we supply one. I also changed the FX code to use OandA ad there ...

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RInside release 0.2.0

December 22, 2009
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RInside, a set of convenience classes to facilitate embedding of R inside of C++ applications, was updated to release 0.2.0 over the weekend. Sources as well as binary packages are at CRAN; sources are also at my RInside page The biggest news is t...

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RInside release 0.2.0

December 22, 2009
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RInside, a set of convenience classes to facilitate embedding of R inside of C++ applications, was updated to release 0.2.0 over the weekend. Sources as well as binary packages are at CRAN; sources are also at my RInside page The biggest news is t...

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Rcpp and inline example

December 20, 2009
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Following up on yesterday's Rcpp 0.7.0 release, here is a quick example of why the new feastures can be so useful. The following R code defines a character variable gslrng. This variable contains a short C++ code segment, which is then transformed b...

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Rcpp 0.7.0

December 19, 2009
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A new release of Rcpp awaits inclusion on CRAN and has also been sent as a .deb to Debian. It will hit mirrors over the next few days, in the meantime you can get it here as well. This release has a couple new features : inline support: the cf...

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RQuantLib 0.3.1 released

December 13, 2009
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A new version of RQuantLib is now out at CRAN and in Debian. It updates the package to the 0.9.9 release of QuantLib and is mostly a maintenance release with a few minor fixes along the way.

Full changelog details, examples and more details about this package are at my RQuantLib page.

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digest 0.4.2

December 6, 2009
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digest version 0.4.2 is now on CRAN. This new version features a fix by Henrik Bengtsson who also joined the R-Forge-hosted digest project.

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Updated slides for ‘Introduction to HPC with R’ (now with correct URLs)

December 1, 2009
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This is an updated version of yesterday's post with corrected URLs -- by copy-and-pasting I had still referenced the previous slides from UseR! 2009 in Rennes instead of last Friday's slides from the ISM presentation in Tokyo. The presentations page had the correct URLs, and this has been corrected below for this re-post. My apologies!

As mentioned yesterday, I spent a few days last week...

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Updated slides for ‘Introduction to HPC with R’ (now with correct URLs)

December 1, 2009
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This is an updated version of yesterday's post with corrected URLs -- by copy-and-pasting I had still referenced the previous slides from UseR! 2009 in Rennes instead of last Friday's slides from the ISM presentation in Tokyo. The presentations page h...

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