Learn how to use Rcpp package, while contributing to charity! Join our workshop on A Gentle and Applied Introduction to Rcpp to improve your skills which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series.
Here’s some more info:
Title: A Gentle and Applied Introduction to Rcpp
Date: Thursday, February 9th, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)
Speaker: Dirk Eddelbuettel is involved with many R packages on CRAN; co-creator of the Rocker Project providing R Docker containers; the Debian/Ubuntu maintainer for R, many CRAN packages, and some other quantitative software; behind several initiatives to make binary packages more easily available ranging from Quantian to the more recent r2u Project; an elected board member of the R Foundation; an adjunct Clinical Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; an editor at the Journal of Statistical Software; and a Principal Software Engineer at TileDB. He holds a MA and PhD in Mathematical Economics from EHESS in France, and a MSc in Industrial Engineering from KIT in Germany.
Description: R has become the lingua franca of statistical research and applications. It provides an open and extensible system for which the Rcpp package has become the most widely-used package for extending R via native code. This talk aims to gently introduce going to compiled code without fear thanks to sophisticated tooling R and Rcpp provide which make the otherwise complicated and sometimes feared steps of compiling, linking, loading, and launching compiled code a relative breeze that is accessible directly from R relying on built-in converters to facilitate exchange to and from R for all key data types. The talk will highlight key aspects, and motivations, of using Rcpp—and will also warn of a few common pitfalls. The second half will be centered around a complete worked example of a package using RcppArmadillo that we will build from scratch. Pointers for further study as well as to additional examples will also be provided.
Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 750 UAH)
How can I register?
- Go to https://bit.ly/3wvwMA6 or https://bit.ly/3PFxtNA and donate at least 20 euro. Feel free to donate more if you can, all proceeds go directly to support Ukraine.
- Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)
- Fill in the registration form, attaching a screenshot of a donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after donation).
If you are not personally interested in attending, you can also contribute by sponsoring a participation of a student, who will then be able to participate for free. If you choose to sponsor a student, all proceeds will also go directly to organisations working in Ukraine. You can either sponsor a particular student or you can leave it up to us so that we can allocate the sponsored place to students who have signed up for the waiting list.
How can I sponsor a student?
- Go to https://bit.ly/3wvwMA6 or https://bit.ly/3PFxtNA and donate at least 20 euro (or 17 GBP or 20 USD or 750 UAH). Feel free to donate more if you can, all proceeds go to support Ukraine!
- Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)
- Fill in the sponsorship form, attaching the screenshot of the donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after the donation). You can indicate whether you want to sponsor a particular student or we can allocate this spot ourselves to the students from the waiting list. You can also indicate whether you prefer us to prioritize students from developing countries when assigning place(s) that you sponsored.
If you are a university student and cannot afford the registration fee, you can also sign up for the waiting list here. (Note that you are not guaranteed to participate by signing up for the waiting list).
You can also find more information about this workshop series, a schedule of our future workshops as well as a list of our past workshops which you can get the recordings & materials here.
Looking forward to seeing you during the workshop!
Feb 19th? Or March 9th? Presumably it can’t be Feb 9th since this was posted Feb 17th.
Hi, thanks for your interest! Unfortunately, it took place on Feb 9th: it took quite long for this post to be approved on the forum, so it was posted later. However, there is a recording available, you can check the website linked at the bottom of the post (scroll to Previous workshops section) for the information on how to get access to the recording