by Nicola Sturaro | Aug 29, 2014 | News
The new Quantide website is online. This is the fourth version of company website. In this post, I revisit the history of the site. First version Quantide first website was published in 2007, when the company was born. It had a fixed Flash-like style, but it was...
by Quantide | Aug 27, 2014 | Ramarro - R for Developers
Introduction Sometimes R code just isn’t fast enough and there’s no simply way to make the code any faster. The Rcpp package provides a consistent API for seamlessly accessing, extending or modifying R objects at the C++ level. The API is a rewritten and extented...
by Quantide | Aug 27, 2014 | Ramarro - R for Developers
The R community has developed several packages to take advantage of parallelism. Many of these packages are simply wrappers around one or multiple other parallelism packages forming a complex and sometimes confusing web of packages. Package parallel attempts to...
by Quantide | Aug 27, 2014 | Ramarro - R for Developers
Debugging Debugging is typically what programmers do about 90% of the time. This is a sad but not unrealistic fact of life. Given that fact, the creators of R have generously provided useful debugging tools to make programmers’ lives a little easier. The debugging...
by Quantide | Aug 27, 2014 | Ramarro - R for Developers
Object Oriented Programming Object oriented programming is a programming paradigm based on classes and methods. A class is an abstract definition of a concrete real world object. A class is generally made of ordered and named slots. For instance, a rectangle is...