Re: [Rcpp-devel] Unicode on windows

2013-08-01 Thread Romain Francois
Yes, encoding is something we have not dealt with yet. This is not high on my priority list but there are ways to alter that list, e.g. find a way to sponsor the development of that particular feature through funding or even crowdfunding if enough people are interested in having the feature an

Re: [Rcpp-devel] Unicode on windows

2013-08-01 Thread Ned Harding
Just to follow up in case anyone other than me is using Unicode in R: Rcpp does not support Unicode, or really any encoding other than 7 bit ascii. Internally R marks every string with an encoding, typically UTF8, Latin1 or ASCII. When using as Rcpp just copies the bytes over ignoring the en

Re: [Rcpp-devel] Favourite Rcpp examples for newbies ?

2013-08-01 Thread Smith, Dale (Norcross)
After reviewing Jonathan's suggestion and Dirk's blog post on MCMC, I do agree with him. As Dirk points out, the Rcpp code is almost identical to the R code, making it an easier segue from R to C++ given the target audience. Dale Smith, Ph.D. Senior Financial Quantitative Analyst Risk & Complian

Re: [Rcpp-devel] Favourite Rcpp examples for newbies ?

2013-08-01 Thread Wush Wu
For me, there are two reasons to learn Rcpp: 1. Rcpp provides a straightforward way to speed up existed R script. I answered 2 question of speeding up R code on StackOverflow with Rcpp: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14495697/speeding-up-a-repeated-function-call/14495967#14495967 For this q

Re: [Rcpp-devel] Favourite Rcpp examples for newbies ?

2013-08-01 Thread Jonathan Olmsted
I think I've seen this somewhere out there on the webs... http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2011/07/14/ - J.P. Olmsted 029 Corwin (Office) 130 Corwin Hall (Mail) Politics Department Princeton University Princeton, NJ 0854

Re: [Rcpp-devel] Favourite Rcpp examples for newbies ?

2013-08-01 Thread Jonathan Olmsted
Just my quick thoughts: Bayesian MCMC is what brought me to Rcpp. So, I have always found those examples the most compelling. This is precisely because good R coding can't improve performance on these problems and the gain in computational performance really justified the development cost as oppos

Re: [Rcpp-devel] Favourite Rcpp examples for newbies ?

2013-08-01 Thread Smith, Dale (Norcross)
http://gallery.rcpp.org/articles/fast-factor-generation/ Dale Smith, Ph.D. Senior Financial Quantitative Analyst Risk & Compliance Fiserv Office: 678-375-5315 www.fiserv.com -Original Message- From: rcpp-devel-boun...@r-forge.wu-wien.ac.at [mailto:rcpp-devel-boun...@r-forge.wu-wien.ac.a

[Rcpp-devel] Favourite Rcpp examples for newbies ?

2013-08-01 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
I'm giving a talk to the Chicago RUG that is limited to 30 mins, and I would like to include some nice examples (besides standards like Fibonacci and SimulatingPi). The other talk is on ggplot(2), so the house may be full with new users / non-C++ hackers. What examples should I talk about? B

Re: [Rcpp-devel] Building RProtoBuf on Windows

2013-08-01 Thread Tobias Elbert
Hi John In case you're still having problems with this, I got this to work following your steps with the only difference being that I built from within Rstudio, using R3.0.1 and MinGW 4.6.3 (from latest Rtools) on WinXP. I had a few undefined references during linking, but that was due to my local