Lecture slides for my 'Data Science Programming Methods' course STAT 447 from this Fall 2021 at U of Illinois are now accessible via https://t.co/hHewPJY3pl covering shell (incl sed/awk), markdown, git(hub), sql, lots of #Rstats up to packaging, and Docker. Enjoy!

dang 0.0.17: New Features, Plus Maintenance A collection of a few small helper functions https://t.co/ya61zIOiLk #rstats

RcppArmadillo 15.2.3-1 on CRAN: Upstream Update R bindings to powerful and expressive C++ matrix library https://t.co/jW6IUWpko6 #rcpp #rstats

BH 1.90.0-1 on CRAN: New Upstream Boost C++ header goodness for R https://t.co/c1rOLR4UD1 #rstats #rcpp

r^4 post #056: Running r-ci with R-devel Adding R-devel to r-ci is a one-liner https://t.co/br5HzfDzwl #rstats #continuousintegration

duckdb-mlpack 0.0.5: Added kmeans, version helpers, documentation Bringing mlpack machine learning to duckdb SQL https://t.co/waKHvPYOYF #duckdb #datascience #mlpack Added kmeans, version helpers, documention

tidyCpp 0.0.8 on CRAN: Maintenance Tidy C++ wrapping of the C API for R https://t.co/8YIhl8hRrZ #rstats Mostly maintenance but also keeping up with R-devel changes to the C API reducing its surface

RcppQuantuccia 0.1.3 on CRAN: Micro Maintenance Self-containted QuantLib Calendar Library for R https://t.co/H8ncIXNXDp #rstats #rcpp Exchange / business calendaring based on QuantLib: initial package, but now `qlcal` is preferred / recommended

RcppArmadillo 15.2.2-1 on CRAN: Upstream Update, OpenMP Updates R bindings to powerful and expressive C++ matrix library https://t.co/014bviBzaQ #rstats #rcpp New upstream bug fixes, updated OpenMP setup

digest 0.6.39 on CRAN: Micro Update Compact hash representations of arbitrary R objects https://t.co/hrnLGbTZdI #rstats Small incremental release addressing two SAN issues revealed only once 0.6.38 was released last week.

r^4 post #055: More Frequent r2u Updates r2u builds fully at GitHub Actions, multiple runs per day https://t.co/cjROktxGJw #rstats #r2u Internal updates allowing for more frequent builds of CRAN binaries for Ubuntu

digest 0.6.38 on CRAN: Several Updates Compact hash representations of arbitrary R objects https://t.co/HwAte1RqR8 #rstats With special thanks to Carl Pearson, Bill Denney, Thierry Onkelinx, and Sergey Fedorov for contributions to this release.

duckdb-mlpack 0.0.4: Added random forest and logistic regression Bringing mlpack machine learning to duckdb SQL https://t.co/9KNY1zBUbs Adds random forest + logistic regression, reworks interface, adds new state variable for verbosity, expands documentation and adds unit tests

RcppCNPy 0.2.14 on CRAN: Minor Maintenance Read/write NumPy data from R https://t.co/pQjN0clDZF #rstats #rcpp

duckdb-mlpack 0.0.3: macOS binaries, unit tests, more outputs Bringing mlpack machine learning to duckdb SQL https://t.co/LwVpu802Iq #duckdb #mlpack

R^4 post #054: Faster r-ci Contimuous Integration via r2u Container Accelerating Continous Integration at GitHub Actions https://t.co/2DhT4KPXC1 #rstats

duckdb-mlpack 0.0.2: mlpack is now a duckdb community extension Bringing mlpack machine learning to duckdb SQL https://t.co/wGDU62iXWz

RcppArmadillo 15.2.0-0 on GitHub: New Upstream, Simpler OpenMP R bindings to powerful and expressive C++ matrix library https://t.co/bSys3T6GPb #rcpp #rstats GitHub-only release skipping CRAN to slow the update cadence per CRAN Policy

ML quacks: Combining duckdb and mlpack https://t.co/q046dEtURR A 'minimally viable product / demo' of extending @duckdb with #mlpack

qlcal 0.0.17 on CRAN: Regular Update QuantLib Business / Exchange Calendaring for R https://t.co/sSITew0QiZ #rstats #rcpp

RcppSpdlog 0.0.23 on CRAN: New Upstream Modern C++ logging for R extension packages https://t.co/OeiYoguPFD #rcpp #rstats