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Package Update Roundup: Dec 2009 – Jan 2010

February 9, 2010
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A special double edition of the Package Update Roundup this month! This is a list of new or updated packages that were released for R in December and January, as announced on the r-packages mailing list. To include other updates on this list, please email David Smith. For a complete list of all updates on CRAN, see the CRANberries...

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Rcpp 0.7.5

February 9, 2010
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pre{ border: 1px solid black; font-size: x-small ; } Dirk released Rcpp 0.7.5 yesterday The main thing is the smarter wrap function that now uses techniques of type traits and template meta-programming to have a compile time guess at whether a...

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Rcpp 0.7.5

February 9, 2010
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A new release of our Rcpp R / C++ interface classes is now out, the version number is 0.7.5. It comes on the heels of the release 0.7.4 and keeps with our semi-frantic schedule of releases every ten or so days going. The package is now on CRAN and Debi...

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Rcpp 0.7.5

February 9, 2010
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A new release of our Rcpp R / C++ interface classes is now out, the version number is 0.7.5. It comes on the heels of the release 0.7.4 and keeps with our semi-frantic schedule of releases every ten or so days going. The package is now on CRAN and Deb...

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Updated Tactical Asset Allocation Results

February 6, 2010
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Updated Tactical Asset Allocation Results

In November, I used the strategy in Mebane Faber's Tactical Asset Allocation paper to provide an introduction to blotter. Faber has updated the strategy's results through the end of 2009. For those interested, he expands on the paper in his book, The...

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R/Finance 2010: Registration Open

February 5, 2010
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R/Finance 2010: Registration Open

As posted by Dirk Eddelbuettel on R-SIG-Finance: R / Finance 2010: Applied Finance with R April 16 & 17, Chicago, IL, US The second annual R / Finance conference for applied finance using R, the premier free software system for statistical comput...

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Mapping the Massachusetts election upset with R, ctd

February 4, 2010
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Mapping the Massachusetts election upset with R, ctd

Last week we looked at an analysis done in R by the good folks at Offensive Politics, looking at the political climate surrounding the recent Senate election in Massachusetts. There were some very insightful comments (thanks, Revolutions readers!) about the design of the charts, especially in the choice of color schemes used (the originals didn't use a neutral white...

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In case you missed it: January roundup

February 2, 2010
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In case you missed them, here are some articles from last month of particular interest to R users. This post linked to slides and video from a 30-minute "Introduction to R" talk I gave on January 28, with links to many useful R resources. This post brought news that R's creators Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka have jointly won...

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Ensemble Prediction

February 2, 2010
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Ensemble Prediction

Weather is unpredictable. Small differences in initial conditions can develop into big differences in the pattern of circulation, in the timing and location of cyclones, rainfall etc. This is true no matter how good the initial observing system is. The approach taken by organisations such as ECMWF or NCEP is to re-run numerical forecast models

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Practical Implementation of Neural Network based Time Series (Stock) Prediction – PART 3

February 1, 2010
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Practical Implementation of Neural Network based Time Series (Stock) Prediction – PART 3

Ok, now that we have seen how well the perfect sine wave signal was learned, let's turn it up a notch and see how well the complex sine wave was learned.Fig 1. Summary of Actual Vs. Predicted out of sample complex sine waveformUh Oh. What happened, the...

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