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Interview Jeff Allen Trestle Technology #rstats #rshiny
Here is an interview with Jeff Allen who works with R and the new package Shiny in his technology startup. We featured his RGL Demo in our list of Shiny Demos- here
Ajay- Describe how you started using R. What are some of the benefits you noticed on moving to R?
Jeff- I began using R in an internship while working on my undergraduate degree. I was provided with some unformatted R code and asked to modularize the code then wrap it up into an R package for distribution alongside a publication.
To be honest, as a Computer Science student with training more heavily emphasizing the big high-level languages, R took some getting used to for me. It wasn’t until after I concluded that initial project and began using R to do my own data analysis that I began to realize its potential and value. It was the first scripting language which really made interactive use appealing to me — the experience of exploring a dataset in R was unlike anything (more…)
UseR 2012 Early Registration #rstats
Early Registration Deadline Approaches for UseR 2012
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/UseR-2012
Registration
Deadlines
- Early Registration: Jan 23 24 – Feb 29
- Regular Registration: Mar 1 – May 12
- Late Registration: May 13 – June 4
- On-site Registration: June 12 – June 15
Fees
| Academic | Non-Academic | Student/Retiree | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registration: Early | $290 | $440 | $145 |
| Registration: Regular | $365 | $560 | $185 |
| Registration: Late | $435 | $645 | $225 |
| Registration: On-site | $720 | $720 | $360 |
| Short Course | $200 | $300 | $100 |
Vanderbilt University; Nashville, Tennessee, USA
12th-15th June 2012
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/UseR-2012
Contact
Stephania McNeal-Goddard
Assistant to the Chair
stephania.mcneal-goddard@vanderbilt.edu
Phone: 615.322.2768
Fax: 615.343.4924
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Department of Biostatistics
S-2323 Medical Center North
Nashville, TN 37232-2158
Rcpp Workshop in San Francisco Oct 8th
Rcpp Workshop in San Francisco Oct 8th
Following the successful one-day master class on Rcpp preceding this year’s R/Finance conference, a full-day master class on Rcpp and related topics which will be held on Saturday, October 8, in San Francisco.
Join Dirk Eddelbuettel for six hours of detailed and hands-on instructions and discussions aroundRcpp, inline, RInside, RcppArmadillo, RcppGSL, RcppEigen and other packages—in an intimate small-group setting.
The full-day format allows combining an introductory morning session with a more advanced afternoon session while leaving room for sufficient breaks. We plan on having about six hours of instructions, a one-hour lunch break and two half-hour coffee breaks (and lunch and refreshments will be provided).
Morning session: “A Hands-on Introduction to R and C++”
The morning session will provide a practical introduction to the Rcpp package (and other related packages). The focus will be on simple and straightforward applications of Rcpp in order to extend R and/or to significantly accelerate the execution of simple functions.
The tutorial will cover the inline package which permits embedding of self-contained C, C++ or FORTRAN code in R scripts. We will also discuss RInside, to easily embed the R engine code in C++ applications, as well as standard Rcpp extension packages such as RcppArmadillo and RcppEigen for linear algebra (via highly expressive templated C++ libraries) and RcppGSL.
Afternoon session: “Advanced R and C++ Topics”
The afternoon tutorial will provide a hands-on introduction to more advanced Rcpp features. It will cover topics such as writing packages that use Rcpp, how Rcpp modules and the new R ReferenceClasses interact, and how Rcpp sugar lets us write C++ code that is often as expressive as R code. Another possible topic, time permitting, may be writing glue code to extend Rcpp to other C++ projects.
We also expect to leave some time to discuss problems brought by the class participants.
October 8, 2011 – San Franciso
AMA Executive Conference Center
@ the Marriott Hotel
55 4th Street, 2nd Level
San Francisco, CA 94103
Tel. 415-442-6770
Instructor Bio
| Dirk E has been contributing packages to CRAN for nearly a decade. Among these are RQuantLib, digest, littler, random, RPostgreSQL, as well the Rcpp family of packages comprising Rcpp, RInside, RcppClassic, RcppExamples, RcppDE, RcppArmadillo and RcppEigen. He maintains the CRAN Task Views for Finance as well as High-Performance Computing, and is a founding co-organiser of the annual R / Finance conferences in Chicago. He has Ph.D. in Financial Econometrics from EHESS (Paris), and works in Chicago as a Quantitative Strategist. |
