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278 results for “from:Whit Armstrong”

apply a function to a rolling subset of a vector
Whit Armstrong · Mar 2, 2005 · r-help

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Creating a back adjusted continuous price series from log returns
Whit Armstrong · Nov 27, 2009 · r-sig-finance

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Unable to obtain BEST_BID1_SZ (and other related data)
Whit Armstrong · Dec 12, 2013 · r-sig-finance

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Advice on HPC/R needs for advanced computing oversight committee
Whit Armstrong · Jan 11, 2013 · r-sig-hpc

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test suites for packages
Whit Armstrong · May 17, 2012 · r-devel

Can anyone share some opinions on test suites for R packages? I'm looking at testthat and RUnit. Does anyone have strong opinions on either of those. Any additional packages I should consider? Thanks, Whit

doRedis on ec2:no new jobs being assigned to workers after first job completes
Whit Armstrong · Aug 23, 2012 · r-sig-hpc

> where's the doDS or dozmq foreach backend? Then we could use your stuff > without having to change a whole bunch of code ;) Point taken... -Whit

color individual bar of histogram?
Whit Armstrong · Oct 28, 2008 · r-help

Anyone know a quick way to color one bar of a histogram? I want to mark the bar in which the most recent observation falls. So, for instance: x <- rnorm(100) latest.ob <- x[100] hist(x) ## how do I...

Visual Basic: calling compiled VB code from R
Whit Armstrong · Feb 22, 2002 · r-help

Hello, Any advice on calling Visual Basic code from R would be helpful. Thanks, Whit Armstrong -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the...

[Rcpp-devel] RcppArmadillo with R-devel
Whit Armstrong · Apr 26, 2012 · rcpp-devel

> Well I did tell you (off-list) about the change which I had sprinkled into > your rcppbugs code in order to suppress such a warning with R 2.15.0 on your > initial release 0.0.2: Ugg. Sorry, it...

functions to calculate t-stats, etc. for lm.fit objects?
Whit Armstrong · Jul 8, 2009 · r-help

I'm running a huge number of regressions in a loop, so I tried lm.fit for a speedup. However, I would like to be able to calculate the t-stats for the coefficients. Does anyone have some functions for...

R_PreserveObject, R_ReleaseObject : reference counting needed ?
Whit Armstrong · Jan 2, 2010 · r-devel

Romain, > that's not what I said. It just felt not as easy to use as just grab a SEXP > and say R_PreserveObject( x ) and then later R_ReleaseObject. Didn't mean to suggest that you said that. I...

parallel build for package? (equivalent of make -j8)
Whit Armstrong · Nov 30, 2008 · r-devel

I have a package that takes about 20 minutes to compile which tends to prolong the compile/test/compile cycle. Does anyone know how to get R CMD check or R CMD INSTALL to use parallel make? I looked at...

[Rcpp-devel] inline with classes
Whit Armstrong · Oct 5, 2010 · rcpp-devel

I just reviewed the Rcpp documentation. I see plenty of cfunction/cxxfunction examples, but I'm curious whether one can provide a class definition inline in an R script and then initialize an instance of the class and call a...

methods from Kim/Nelson "State-Space Models with Regime Switching"
Whit Armstrong · Aug 13, 2009 · r-sig-finance

Has anyone implemented the methods from the Kim/Nelson book: http://www.amazon.com/State-Space-Models-Regime-Switching-Gibbs-Sampling/dp/0262112388. Gauss programs here: http://www.econ.washington.edu/user/cnelson/markov/prgmlist.htm Any suggestions for existing...

deep copy?
Whit Armstrong · Apr 13, 2012 · r-help

Is putting a variable into a list a deep copy (and is tracemem the correct way to confirm)? warmstrong at krypton:~/dvl/R.packages$ R > x <- rnorm(1000) > tracemem(x) [1] "<0x3214c90>" > x.list <- list(x.in.list=x) tracemem...

any suggestions to deal with 'Argument list too long' for a R CMD check?
Whit Armstrong · Dec 9, 2008 · r-devel

Thanks for the link, Prof. Ripley. > What I suspect is happening is that there is a link command starting with > 'g++' that is too long. > One useful ref: http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/argmax interesting... on my system...

is there a way to recursilvely lapply
Whit Armstrong · Dec 11, 2008 · r-help

for a simple example: x <- list() x[["a"]] <- list(a=c(1,2,3),b=c(3,4,5)) x[["b"]] <- list(a=c(6,7,8),b=c(9,10,11)) lapply(x,sum) this fails w/ Error in...

[Rcpp-devel] RcppArmadillo with R-devel
Whit Armstrong · Apr 26, 2012 · rcpp-devel

Ok. got it working now. Thanks for preemptively pointing this out; sorry for overlooking your comments. -Whit On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Whit Armstrong <armstrong.whit at gmail.com> wrote: >> Well I did tell you (off...

Problems when trying to install and load package "rzmq"
Whit Armstrong · Jan 3, 2017 · r-devel

sounds great! On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Jeroen Ooms <jeroenooms at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Whit Armstrong <armstrong.whit at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > I maintian the rzmq project...

[Rcpp-devel] Loading a package using Rcpp Modules results in memory corruption
Whit Armstrong · Jan 10, 2011 · rcpp-devel

Dominick, > Merging Rcpp into cxxPack may be the only way that I can move on to > the work that really interests me. I am open to other suggestions from > the R community... I strongly encourage you to do this. I...

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