Just got back from Tokyo a few hours ago: I had an opportunity to give my 'Introduction to High-Performance Computing with R' tutorial / lectures (for which previous slides can be found here). This was an all-day talk at the Institute for Statistical Mathematics at their new site in Tachikawa in the greater Tokyo area, thanks to an invitation by...

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As memtioned when I announced release 0.6.7 of Rcpp two days ago, a new version 0.6.8 was due because of my oversight of also adapting Makevars.win (used on that other OS) to the new file layout.

So 0.6.8 went onto CRAN and into Debian earlier in the day. Beside the aforementioned fix, I also split off a more class headers and...

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Jeff sent the following while I had connectivity issues and I hadn't gotten around to posting it here.

So without further ado, and given the success of our initial R / Finance 2009 conference about R in Finance, here is the call for papers for next spring:

Call for Papers:

R/Finance 2010: Applied Finance with R
April 16 and 17, 2010
Chicago, IL, USA

The second...

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Version 0.6.7 of the Rcpp package---a set of C++ classes making it easier to glue C/C++ code to R---is now on CRAN and Debian. This is a fairly incremental release that contains just a few small changes that arose since the previous release in August.

One change is that a new type RcppList was added which allows us to build R 'list'...

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Regular readers of this blog (yes, both of you!) may remember the computer/broadband/ directory that this post appears in as the collection of my Comcastic (yeah right) experiences with my ISP.

But I think this week may top everything. I'll just try to jot down some notes before I forget all the gory details:

• On Tuesday, I edited...

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Yesterday, via in invitation from fellow Chicago-area Google Summer of Code mentor Borja Sotomayor, I attended the Second ORD Sessions. These are happening at the HQ of Inventable where a couple of technologists and Open Source geeks from the Chicagoland area get together and riff on code for a few hours after work over some pizza and beer.

Sounded good, and I...

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A quick bug fix released of RPostgreSQL was uploaded to CRAN earlier today; it updates last week's 0.1-5 release. An editing error left one of the helper functions broken. I also updated a few of the test scripts to also allow for optional environment variable for the port at which the PostgreSQL server is listening. This is handy when you have parallel installations...

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Another trio concert at CSO, but very different from the most recent classic piano trio. Tonight was once again a chance to see Dianne Reeves (wikipedia) but this time accompanied simply by two guitarists: Russell Malone and Romero Lubambo (wikipedia).

Given that Dianne Reeves (who we had seen in just a few month earlier in our neighbourgood) has plenty of stage...

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A new version of RPostgreSQL just went out to CRAN and should propagate via the mirrors over the next few days.

This is a maintenance and bug fix release that addresses four of the seven issue at the Google Code page. Two more are really enhancement requests for which we encourage patches as we are unlikely to have to write them, and the last issue...

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Christian: of course you will be running the Chicago 2010 marathon as your next fall marathon. Not only are Paris and Chicago jumelée (i.e. sister cities), but the Dollar is so conveniently falling vis-à-vis the Euro that you'd get all this done for about a Euro and a half by the time the race happens. Moreover, 2010 is going to be...

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