Following up on my initial post announcing gcbd, here is a brief note on a new version. The initial post announced version 0.2.2 which was the first CRAN version of gcbd. I updated to 0.2.3 when I made the aforementioned first blog post about gcbd w... [Read more...]

Version 0.2.7 of RcppArmadillo is now on CRAN. This updates the included Armadillo template library to version 0.9.80 which Conrad released a few days ago. RcppArmadillo makes it easy to write highly efficient and highly readable C++ code for linear... [Read more...]

Brian announced it on r-help and r-sig-finance and I have since updated the R/Finance website and Call for Papers page. And as David Smith already outblogged me about it, without further ado our Call for Paper for next spring's R/Finance conference: ... [Read more...]

As this year's admin, I wrote up the following summary which has now been posted at the R site in the appropriate slot. My thanks to this year's students, fellow mentors and everybody else who helped to make it happen. Projects 2010 As in 2008 and 2009, the R Project has again participated ... [Read more...]

Usage of accelerated BLAS libraries seems to shrouded in some mystery, judging from somewhat regularly recurring requests for help on lists such as r-sig-hpc (gmane version), the R list dedicated to High-Performance Computing. Yet it doesn't have to b... [Read more...]

Now that Rcpp got updated to 0.8.6, we have an updated RcppArmadillo release containing mostly updates to Conrad's Armadillo version 0.9.70 as well as some more templated sugar magic. RcppArmadillo makes it easy to write highly efficient and highly ... [Read more...]

Second Sunday in September -- time for the annual Chicago Half Marathon now in its fourteenth edition (and I have been running it in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 making this and the JPM Chase Corporate Challenge the races I've run ... [Read more...]

A brand new and shiny release of RProtoBuf, now at version 0.2.0, arrived on CRAN earlier today. RProtoBuf provides GNU R bindings for the Google Protobuf data encoding library used and release by Google and others. This is only the second releas... [Read more...]

In the spur of the moment, I cycled over to Dominican, one of the two small colleges in town, to see if I could snag a remaining ticket to see Billy Bragg perform. Turned out I could, and it became a nice evening out. Darren Hanlon started up the ev... [Read more...]

Christian Robert, whose blog I commented-on here once before, had followed up on a recent set of posts by Radford Neal which had appeared both on Radford's blog and on the r-devel mailing list. Now, let me prefix this by saying that I really enjoyed Radford's posts. He obviously put ... [Read more...]

The Chicago Symphony hosted the world premiere of Louis last evening, and I had snatched the (literally) last available ticket. The film, which is written, directed and producted by Dan Pritzker, is based loosely on the early years of Louis Armstro... [Read more...]

A fresh release of RQuantLib is now on CRAN and in Debian. RQuantLib combines (some of) the quantitative analytics of QuantLib with the R statistical computing environment and language. This follows the 0.3.3 release from last week and has again ... [Read more...]

A new 0.2.3 release of RInside is now on CRAN. RInside is a set of convenience classes which facilitate embedding of R inside of C++ applications and programs. RInside works particularly well with Rcpp and now depends on it. This is the first re... [Read more...]

Hot on the heels of RcppArmadillo release 0.2.4 a few days ago comes a new release 0.2.5 which is now on CRAN. RcppArmadillo makes it easy to write highly efficient and highly readable C++ code for linear algebra (based on Armadillo) in R extensions (... [Read more...]

A new release (now at version 0.3.3) of RQuantLib is now on CRAN and in Debian. RQuantLib combines (some of) the quantitative analytics of QuantLib with the R statistical computing environment and language. Many of the changes in this new version ... [Read more...]

On Friday, I quickly provided a new release of RcppExamples, our example package for using Rcpp, to CRAN. Very little content has been updated --- and a new TODO file even notes that we need to add more documentation for the new Rcpp API. And update... [Read more...]

A couple of days ago, Romain released inline release 0.3.6 to CRAN. This is a maintenance release with no user-visible changes. However, as it captures compiler errors more directly, it should help us debug Rcpp on recalcitrant platforms such as Sol... [Read more...]

A new release of RcppArmadillo is now on CRAN. RcppArmadillo makes it easy to write highly efficient and highly readable C++ code for linear algebra (based on Armadillo) in R extensions (using Rcpp for the interface). This release upgrades the incl... [Read more...]

A new release (now at version 0.8.5) of Rcpp is now on CRAN and in Debian. This release constitutes a quick follow-up to the last release 0.8.4 which we got out just before CRAN closed for summer vacations. Some fixes were made right after last rel... [Read more...]

This past week, the annual R user conference useR! 2010 took place at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD (which is a tad northwest of Washington, DC). Kate Mullen and her team of local organizers did a truly... [Read more...]