I just released a new package on CRAN. It’s called NPflow, it performs Dirichlet process mixture of multivariate normal, skew-normal or skew t-distributions  modeling, you should check it out. I was a little worried because the check from Travis CI was returning a NOTE. And even though the NOTEs ... [Read more...]

This is a quick technical post, that is as much about disseminating the information as putting it in a place where I can find it again in the future. I have been trying to use openMP in an R package … Continue reading → [Read more...]

I am in the process of speeding up some code, and I have been lured by the promises of Rcpp. Since the functions I am working on are mainly linear algebra, I wanted to try out RcppArmadillo. This put my … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Last week, a colleague draw my attention on this new log files from the Rstudio cloud CRAN mirror, through a post from Tal Galili. This CRAN mirror is a little different, as it uses Amazon CloudFront to deliver the downloads … Continue reading → [Read more...]