[Rcpp-devel] RcppMLPACK ?

Hello Damian and other Rcpp Devs,

I am extremely interested in putting in (non-trivial) time into something
like this - but I am not sure I am expert enough to head such a project.

My question to you is: have you or anyone else started a project like this
that I can contribute to? And if not, could someone point me the right way
to get started?

Thanks!

Best,
James


On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

Damian,

On 20 January 2014 at 20:12, Damian Lyons wrote:
| Dear Rcpp developers,
|
| Firstly, many thanks for your work on Rcpp.  It has saved me countless
hours
| (or is that months?) of simulation time.
|
| I'm a big fan of RcppArmadillo and Armadillo.  Recently I came across
MLPACK,
| which is a large and useful C++ machine learning library that uses
Armadillo:
| http://mlpack.org

Sure. I am in somewhat regular contact with Ryan Curtin, its lead
developer,
because of our joint interactions with Conrad and his priceless Armadillo
library.  But Ryan is a grad student, and we while we have talked about R
binding (meaning the real thing and not just some SWIG interfaces), he is
not
exactly overflowing with free time. Neither am I.

| If you have the time to do so, I humbly request for an official
RcppMLPACK
| package.  I believe other people will also find it useful.  I'm
currently
| copying and pasting code out of MLPACK into my own package, but this is
not the
| most friendly solution.

This makes YOU the perfect candidate to start a project NOW as YOU need
IT.
And YOU have already worked with both pieces.

None of our projects became what they are overnight. You have to start
somewhere.  Do it right, do it in the open, and if you do that and have
some
luck maybe others will join and help.

Dirk

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