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 <e...@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 > > -- > Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com > _______________________________________________ > Rcpp-devel mailing list > Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel > -- James Li *|* Ph.D. Candidate *|* http://jamesyili.com/ Dept. of Statistical Science *|* Cornell University
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