So after it was up and working, JJ and I refined the look and feel, and I started to add more content so that would have something by the time the initial announcement came around. A few years I read about an (attributed) secret to Seinfeld's producitivity: "Don't break the chain". Just keep writing, and write every day.
I made my goal of a post every day for just over a month, and created this sequences:
(20 Dec) simulating-pi,
(21 Dec) vector-minimum,
(22 Dec) gsl-colnorm-example,
(23 Dec) fibonacci-sequence,
(24 Dec) random-number-generation,
(25 Dec) armadillo-sparse-matrix,
(26 Dec) timing-rngs,
(27 Dec) stl-inner-product,
(28 Dec) stl-transform,
(29 Dec) stl-transform-for-subsetting,
(30 Dec) stl-random-shuffle,
(31 Dec) stl-random-sample,
(01 Jan) stl-for-each,
(02 Jan) armadillo-subsetting,
(03 Jan) accessing-environments,
(04 Jan) armadillo-eigenvalues,
(05 Jan) r-function-from-c++,
(06 Jan) using-the-rcpp-timer,
(07 Jan) sugar-function-clamp,
(08 Jan) using-rcout,
(09 Jan) first-steps-with-C++11,
(10 Jan) simple-lambda-func-c++11,
(11 Jan) eigen-eigenvalues,
(12 Jan) getting-attributes-for-xts-example,
(13 Jan) intro-to-exceptions,
(14 Jan) a-first-boost-example,
(15 Jan) a-second-boost-example,
(16 Jan) timing-normal-rngs,
(17 Jan) creating-xts-from-c++,
(18 Jan) gsl-for-eigenvalues,
(19 Jan) accessing-xts-api,
(20 Jan) custom-as-and-wrap-example,
(21 Jan) passing-cpp-function-pointers,
The Rcpp Gallery continues to grow, we now have 58 posts from 7 different authors. And it is open for business: new contributions are always welcome.
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Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
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