Thinking inside the boxThinking inside the boxlittler 0.1.0 released- January 15, 2008 I've just rolled up release 0.1.0 of r (pronounced littler). A few changes made it into this release: A new option -l (with long form --packages) to load packages into the R session. This is useful when you have data-processing one-liners as it does away with the explicit library(foo) inside your actual R expression. For added bonus, library() is wrapped in a suppressMessage() call. The --no-restore option is now passed to the embedded R session. Argument handling was...http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2008/01/14#littler-0.1.0 NAS'ed- January 7, 2008 I had been eyeing an inexpensive network-storage device -- for the non-geeks: think of a hard disk with an ethernet port and some controlling software -- for some time. I was aware of some of the hacking efforts around a few of these but somehow nothing really appealed. I was sort-of looking for nslu2-with-a-disk, and preferably not too expensive. Lo and behold, that's what I saw today in my techbargains feed: a Buffalo LinkStation Live which contains a 500gb SATA for $199 after rebates. Some.http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2008/01/06#buffalo_linkstation_live RQuantLib 0.2.8- January 5, 2008 Version 0.9.0 of QuantLib was released a couple of days ago on Christmas Eve; as usual, Debian packages for QuantLib were uploaded right away following a few earlier pre-releases. As QuantLib is approaching its 1.0 release, a few API changes requires updates to basically all of RQuantLib's C++ source files. Luckily most changes were minor. At the same time, we also generalised the Binary (aks Digital) option pricer to allow for a 'binType' argument (with values 'cash', 'asset' or 'gap' for..http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2008/01/05#rquantlib_0.2.8 |