Thinking inside the boxThinking inside the boxrandom 0.1.2- April 26, 2007 Following yesterday's minor maintenance release of random, a small brown bag fix release just went out to CRAN. Kurt Hornik, diligent as usual, spotted that the vignette would not build, and that has been corrected. The code itself is unchanged.http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2007/04/26#random_0.1.2 digest 0.3.0- April 26, 2007 A new version of digest has just been sent to CRAN. Thanks to excellent contributions by Simon Urbanek and Henrik Bengtsson, some internals of the code have been improved. The output produced by digest should now be invariant to R version number changes.http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2007/04/25#digest_0.3.0 random 0.1.1- April 26, 2007 A minor maintenance release of random was just uploaded to CRAN. The only change is a correction on regular expression string: R 2.5.0 now warns that percentage signs should not be escaped. Not other code changes were made.http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2007/04/25#random_0.1.1 littler 0.0.11- April 26, 2007 I rolled up 'little r' (pronounced littler) version 0.1.11 earlier today. This release only includes a robustification of the main Makefile (so that e.g. BSDers can build with non-GNU make) and a small fix by Jeff to 'update.r', a handy example script. As usual, littler can be found in the GoogleCode svn archive, on my r page and in the local directory, and soon on Jeff's littler page at Vanderbilt. The Debian package has been uploaded as well (and has been built again the new R version...http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2007/04/25#littler_0.0.11 Boston Marathon 2007- April 21, 2007 So this Monday was the 111th running, as they call it, of the venerable Boston Marathon, and my first time there. After the fairly serious storm warnings -- and the corresponding health warnings, delivered through two emails from the race organizers and a handout at registration, we got very, very lucky as the rain more or less stopped shortly after the start. And there was relatively little wind, and mostly laterally, rather than the 'in your face' gusts at the projected 30 to 50 mph. There.http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2007/04/20#boston_marathon_2007 |