Very excited about the next few weeks which will cover a number of R conferences, workshops or classes with talks, mostly around Rcpp and one notable exception:

• May 19: Rcpp: From Simple Examples to Machine learning, pre-conference workshop at our R/Finance 2017 conference here in Chicago

• May 26: Extending R with C++: Motivation and Examples, invited keynote at R à Québec 2017 at Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada

• June 28-29: Higher-Performance R Programming with C++ Extensions, two-day course at the Zuerich R Courses @ U Zuerich in Zuerich, Switzerland

• July 3: Rcpp at 1000+ reverse depends: Some Lessons Learned (working title), at DSC 2017 preceding useR! 2017 in Brussels, Belgium

• July 4: Extending R with C++: Motivation, Introduction and Examples, tutorial preceding useR! 2017 in Brussels, Belgium

• July 5, 6, or 7: Hosting Data Packages via drat: A Case Study with Hurricane Exposure Data, accepted presentation, joint with Brooke Anderson

If you are near one those events, interested and able to register (for the events requiring registration), I would love to chat before or after.