Dirk Eddelbuettel

Dirk Eddelbuettel is an Canadian statistician, data scientist and researcher. He is the author of the open-source software package Rcpp,[1] written in the R programming language, and has also written the textbook Seamless R and C++ Integration with Rcpp[2] on the topic.[3] He is co-founder of the R In Finance Conference. In addition, he has contributed to many packages in R as well as the Debian project. He works as a senior quantitative analyst in Chicago.[4]

Early life and education

Eddelbuettel has an M.Sc in Industrial Engineering (Comp.Sci./OR) from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. He received an M.A. and a PhD in Financial Econometrics from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in France.[5]

Career

has been a contributor to CRAN for over a decade and maintains around twenty packages. He is the Debian/Ubuntu maintainer for R and other quantitative software, edits the CRAN Task Views for Finance and High-Performance Computing, is a co-founder of the annual R/Finance conference, and an editor of the Journal of Statistical Software.[6] He is a member of the R Foundation.[7] He has contributed to R-Hub.[8]

Eddelbuettel has been interviewed by Data Science Los Angeles and others.[9][10] He frequently gives talks to the R community.[11][12][13]

References

  1. ↑ "Rcpp: Seamless R and C++ Integration | Eddelbuettel | Journal of Statistical Software". Retrieved 2016-01-13.
  2. ↑ "Seamless R and C++ Integration with Rcpp | Dirk Eddelbuettel | Springer". www.springer.com. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
  3. ↑ "Rcpp book: Seamless R and C++ Integration with Rcpp". www.rcpp.org. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
  4. ↑ Reed Albergotti (25 August 2013). "Indictments Expected in Alleged Trading Code Theft". WSJ. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  5. ↑ "Seamless R and C++ Integration with Rcpp | Dirk Eddelbuettel | Springer". www.springer.com. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
  6. ↑ "Seamless R and C++ Integration with Rcpp | Dirk Eddelbuettel | Springer". www.springer.com. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
  7. ↑ "New leadership of the R Foundation". blog.revolutionanalytics.com. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
  8. ↑ "R Consortium funds first community project, accepting proposals for more | inside-R | A Community Site for R". www.inside-r.org. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
  9. ↑ "The R-Files: Dirk Eddelbuettel". blog.revolutionanalytics.com. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
  10. ↑ "Dirk Eddelbuettel, the useR! 2014 Interview | Data Science Los Angeles". DataScience.LA. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
  11. ↑ "How to call C++ from R with ease". blog.revolutionanalytics.com. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
  12. ↑ "Google TechTalk on integrating R". blog.revolutionanalytics.com. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
  13. ↑ "Talks". dirk.eddelbuettel.com. Retrieved 2016-01-13.

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