Thinking inside the boxThinking inside the boxThe amazing Prof. Ripley (cont'ed)- August 12, 2007 A little mini-meme got started on August 1 when Ben Bolker posted the following code to the r-devel list (and here I substituted the more standard ' x <- readLines("http:developer.r-project.orgR.svnlog.2007") rx <- xgrep("r",x) who <- gsub(" ","",sapply(strsplit(rx,""),"",2)) twho <- table(who) twho"ripley"sum(twho) In five lines (that could be shortened to three at the expense of some readibility), the SVN log for R is downloaded directly from the website, the revision authors...http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2007/08/11#ripley_commit_analysis UseR! 2007: Two talks and a new R package 'RDieHarder'- August 11, 2007 The first UseR! conference in North America ended yesterday. I gave two talks and updated my presentations page accordingly. One talk was joint work with Steffen Moeller (who had also presented our work in Italy in June, and I added that presentation too), David Vernazobres and Albrecht Gebhard and concerns automated building of around two thousand (!!) new Debian source packages for all CRAN and BioConductor packages for GNU R. I plan to send something to debian-devel on that in a day or..http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2007/08/11#back_from_useR2007 |