Hi, I think we can try to start this in the summer, since I am also a little busy as a student.
I my opinion, we can follow the structure of RcppArmadillo and start from 'as' and 'wrap' functions for matrix structure in mlpack. Best, KK On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 10:10 PM, James Li <jamesy...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Qiang Kou q...@umail.iu.edu School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
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