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13 results for “from:Matt Denwood”

[R-jobs] Data scientist / software engineer (academic support role)
Matt Denwood · Sep 30, 2023 · r-sig-jobs

Job opportunity: data scientist / software engineer We are currently hiring at the University of Copenhagen for a (non-academic) role to support our group?s work in animal disease modelling and veterinary contingency services, including developing and maintaining our data...

[R-pkg-devel] Assigning a variable to global environment
Matt Denwood · Dec 11, 2020 · r-package-devel

> On 11 Dec 2020, at 18:32, Tiago Olivoto <tiagoolivoto at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > This can be a very simple question, but I really have the following doubt. > > CRAN Policies says that 'Packages should not modify the global...

[R-jobs] Postdoc in data science and statistical modelling
Matt Denwood · Oct 23, 2020 · r-sig-jobs

Dear all We are currently seeking a post-doctoral research assistant in data science and statistical modelling at the University of Copenhagen (Frederiksberg campus). This is an exciting opportunity for someone with strong quantitative skills to join a group of...

[R-pkg-devel] ASCII code for Degree symbol °
Matt Denwood · Jan 24, 2022 · r-package-devel

Hi Rafael I find ?stringi::stri_escape_unicode to be extremely useful for generating \uxxxx escapes, for example: > stringi::stri_escape_unicode("?") |> cat("\n") \u00b0 Which can be reversed (for checking) using: > stringi::stri_unescape_unicode("\u00b0") |> cat("\n") ? This...

[R-pkg-devel] Disable parallelism on installation time
Matt Denwood · Jul 18, 2024 · r-package-devel

On the subject of extendr ... the recently published JOSS paper (which also mentions CRAN compliance under the "Creating Rust-powered R packages section") provides a good entry point for those interested in using extendr for their R/Rust packages: https...

sh: convert: command not found
Matt Denwood · Oct 24, 2014 · r-sig-mac

On 24 Oct 2014, at 13:36, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 24 Oct 2014, at 12:55 , Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 24/10/2014, 1:37 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: >>> >>> On...

[R-pkg-devel] Copyright of code "borrowed" from the stats package
Matt Denwood · Oct 16, 2019 · r-package-devel

I needed a basic optimisation routine in some C-level code within an R package I am developing, and the Brent_fmin function from R/src/library/stats/src/optimize.c was a good starting point for me to modify...

normalizePath is sometimes very slow for nonexistent UNC paths
Matt Denwood · Sep 7, 2014 · r-devel

Maximum 0.02022958 seconds out of 10^6 runs for me, so no obvious problem on OS X 10.9 (Snow Leopard build). Matt > library(microbenchmark) > (timings <- microbenchmark( + normalizePath("\\\\some/network/drive", mustWork = FALSE), + times = 1e6, + unit = "s" + )) Unit: seconds...

checking for pdflatex
Matt Denwood · Mar 16, 2015 · r-sig-mac

On 15 Mar 2015, at 23:21, John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote: > Dear Ian, > > Thanks for this. Please see below: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ian Gow [mailto:iandgow at gmail.com] >> Sent: March-15-15 5:07 PM >> To...

Large number calculations causing system crash (Carl Witthoft)
Matt Denwood · Feb 9, 2022 · r-sig-mac

Hi both Just to corroborate Simon's numbers, my M1 Max (MBP 14" with 64GB ram) gets the following for vecLib: > source("CuriousResult.R") matrix multiplication 2.07 0.527 1.571 tcrossprod 2.328 0.55 1.688 transposition...

depending on orphaned packages?
Matt Denwood · Sep 30, 2019 · r-devel

Hi Bob I had also started working on SuppDists a couple of months ago as I needed to expose some of the distributions at C-level for use in another package. Perhaps I/we could create a GitHub repo and...

Bug in reading UTF-16LE file?
Matt Denwood · Oct 2, 2024 · r-sig-mac

Hi Jeff / all On 02/10/2024, 08.54, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > The Unicode FAQ does. If you specify endian-ness and a BOM is present and these specifications agree then it would seem no harm no foul. The problem...

Use of `[` with array and resulting class
Matt Denwood · Sep 30, 2023 · r-devel

Hi Joseph This behaviour is as expected (and as documented by ?`[`) because the default of drop=TRUE coerces the result to the lowest possible dimension, which in your case is a vector rather than array. Using for example: b[1...

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