Episode 21: Talking Rcpp and more with Dirk Eddelbuettel

The R-Podcast concludes its coverage of rstudio::conf by chatting with R Foundation member and Rcpp author Dirk Eddelbuettel! We cover a variety of topics including the state of Rcpp, how the integration of Rcpp in RStudio came about, and his perspective on Linux in the R community. Plus a new batch of listener feedback and a package pick that gives your shiny apps and rmarkdown reports a little more bootstrap polish. Enjoy episode 21 of the R-Podcast!

Show Notes

Dirk’s site: http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/
Rcpp documentation portal: http://rcpp.org/
Using Rcpp with RStudio: https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/200486088-Using-Rcpp-with-RStudio

R Community Roundup

CRAN hits 10,000 packages with hurricaneexposure by Brooke Anderson
CRAN now has 10,000 R packages. Here’s how to find the ones you need: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/cran-10000.html
Using R to prevent food poisoning in Chicago: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/food-inspection-forecasting.html

Listener Feedback

Jan: rintrojs package issue
- Robust solution for multi-page apps (such as navbar layout): https://github.com/carlganz/rintrojs/issues/17
Erich: SAS and R
- SAS/IML compared to R: http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/5682/sas-iml-compared-to-r

Package Pick

bsplus: Provide access to some useful Bootstrap components for rmarkdown html-documents and shiny apps by Ian Lyttle

Feedback

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Music Credits

Opening and closing themes: Training Montage by WillRock from the Return All Robots Remix Album at ocremix.org

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Dirk is an active member of the R community in many capacities. He is a board member of the R Foundation, author/maintainer of the Rcpp package, maintainer of the finance and high-performance computing task views on CRAN, and is a maintainer for R packages on Debian.

Eric Nantz

Eric Nantz is a principal research scientist at a large life sciences company, creating innovative analytical pipelines and capabilities supporting study designs and analyses. Outside of his day job, Eric is passionate about connecting with the R community as the creator/host of the R-Podcast, Shiny Developer Series, and a curator / podcast host for the R Weekly project. Plus, he likes to share his adventures with R and general computing on Twitch livestreams at twitch.tv/rpodcast.

Episode 21: Talking Rcpp and More With Dirk Eddelbuettel