Just as a remark: As a long term R user I have to object to your use of "=" in the R code (e.g. on page 20). There is a difference between the operator "<-", which us usually used for assignment, and "=", although in your examples they do the same [1].
Best regards, Jonas [1] http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/base/html/assignOps.html On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Tama Ma <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Dirk, > > Thank you! that's great help! I will modify accordingly... > Thank you once again! > > Best regards, > Tama Ma > > > > On Jun 29, 2011, at 10:53 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > > > On 29 June 2011 at 15:35, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > | > > | On 29 June 2011 at 22:02, Tama Ma wrote: > > | | Dear Dirk and Romain, > > | | > > | | I will be giving a talk on the power of the Rcpp wrapper tomorrow > morning in the Meielisalp financial engineering workshop organized by > Dielthem. > > | | > > | | Hereby, I attach the link of my presentation slides (in pdf), ie. > > | | > http://www.phys.ethz.ch/~pingnang/numerical-option-pricing-with-Rcpp.pdf > > | | > > | | Could I have your opinion on the slides, or is there > something in it which you strongly do not allow me to speak on? > > | > > | Well, this arrived just minutes ago, and I really only glanced at it. > So > > | really quickly and as an unedited stream of consciousness: > > | > > | > > | i) Your talk, your responsibility. You didn't need to ask here what > we think. > > | > > | ii) The visual style consistently applies the worst elements of > Powerpoint > > | and stresses those. What a horror. But hey, it's your talk and > it is in > > | front of a bunch of geeks. But I'd learn Latex Beamer if I were > > | you. And try to exercise some restraint. > > | > > | iii) You mention the standard API / inline / Rcpp progression but you > fail to > > | use Rcpp + templated headers via inline! You _never_ have to > leave the > > | R prompt in that case. That is the one thing you could consider > > | changing. Inline and Rcpp rock. The list archives has examples of > Rcpp > > | and templated headers for MCMC, what you do here is exactly the > same. > > | > > | iv) Great example of Rcpp modules use with the first option pricer. > Nicely > > | done, and a good motivation for why I should switch RQuantLib to > use > > | more > > | > > | v) I got lost in what the 2nd or 3rd prices did anew. Your slides > are too > > | 'noisy', and its late here (and I happen to be on the same > timezone as > > | you this week -- and wish I could have come to the Alp!) > > | > > | vi) OpenMP came to gcc/g++ earlier than 4.4.*, I think it was 4.2.* > > | > > | vii) You don't talk much about Rcpp and a glue between R and C++. I > think you > > | should. > > | > > | viii) Below my (almost 10 year old) picture you have 'RCpp'. We typeset > it > > | 'Rcpp'. > > | > > | ix) Good luck, and let us know what the audience says. I'd espcially > > | interested in comments by Brian Ripley who has helped us a lot in > build > > | issues at different points but who otherwise seems to be somewhat > > | critical of Rcpp. > > | > > | x) There is no tenth point. > > > > xi) I fully agree with your code reuse, STL/Boost, OO > recommendations. > > > > xii) Some of the STL example are overdone. You do not need Boost > lambda to > > scale a vector by a constant. > > > > xiii) Boost accumulators is wonderful for what it does, but I would not > call > > it a 'statistics library'. > > > > Cheers, Dirk > > > > | | Thanks for any advice in advance. have a nice day! > > | > > | Likewise. Good luck, Dirk > > | > > | | > > | | Thank you very much. > > | | > > | | Best regards, > > | | Tama Ma > > | | (たまま / 馬秉能） > > | | > > | | [email protected] > > | | www.phys.ethz.ch/~pingnang <http://www.phys.ethz.ch/%7Epingnang> > > | | > > | | Contact Number: > > | | +41 44 633 76 55 (Office) > > | | +41 78 640 50 15 (Mobile) > > | | +41 44 633 11 15 (Fax) > > | | > > | | HIT K 31.3 > > | | Institut für Theoretische Physik > > | | Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27 > > | | ETH Hönggerberg > > | | 8093 Zürich > > | | Switzerland > > | | > > | | _______________________________________________ > > | | Rcpp-devel mailing list > > | | [email protected] > > | | > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel > > | > > | -- > > | Gauss once played himself in a zero-sum game and won $50. > > | -- #11 at http://www.gaussfacts.com > > | _______________________________________________ > > | Rcpp-devel mailing list > > | [email protected] > > | > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel > > > > -- > > Gauss once played himself in a zero-sum game and won $50. > > -- #11 at http://www.gaussfacts.com > > > > > Thank you very much. > > Best regards, > Tama Ma > (たまま / 馬秉能） > > [email protected] > www.phys.ethz.ch/~pingnang <http://www.phys.ethz.ch/%7Epingnang> > > Contact Number: > +41 44 633 76 55 (Office) > +41 78 640 50 15 (Mobile) > +41 44 633 11 15 (Fax) > > HIT K 31.3 > Institut für Theoretische Physik > Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27 > ETH Hönggerberg > 8093 Zürich > Switzerland > > _______________________________________________ > Rcpp-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel >
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