<div dir="ltr">I will contact them to listen their opinions and try to figure out the bigger picture.<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>KK</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edd@debian.org" target="_blank">edd@debian.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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James, Qiang,<br>
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On 5 April 2014 at 23:33, Qiang Kou wrote:<br>
| Hi, I think we can try to start this in the summer, since I am also a little<br>
| busy as a student.<br>
|<br>
| I my opinion, we can follow the structure of RcppArmadillo and start from 'as'<br>
| and 'wrap' functions for matrix structure in mlpack.<br>
<br>
</div>There is definitely general interest in doing that. And as mentioned earlier<br>
in this thread, there has been previous talk between Ryan (MLPACK), Conrad<br>
(Arma) and myself. It would probably be best to somehow involve Ryan and his<br>
group as they have thoughts (and have considered Swig and other tools). It<br>
would need some thought, and someone with time and knowledge of both projects<br>
to be involved.<br>
<br>
That said, you can of course also start with simple as<>() and wrap()<br>
converters just to get going. Nothing wrong with some explorations and<br>
examples while figuring out the bigger picture.<br>
<br>
Cheers, Dirk<br>
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|<br>
| Best,<br>
|<br>
| KK<br>
|<br>
|<br>
| On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 10:10 PM, James Li <<a href="mailto:jamesyili@gmail.com">jamesyili@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
|<br>
| Hello Damian and other Rcpp Devs,<br>
|<br>
| I am extremely interested in putting in (non-trivial) time into something<br>
| like this - but I am not sure I am expert enough to head such a project.<br>
|<br>
| My question to you is: have you or anyone else started a project like this<br>
| that I can contribute to? And if not, could someone point me the right way<br>
| to get started?<br>
|<br>
| Thanks!<br>
|<br>
| Best,<br>
| James<br>
|<br>
|<br>
| On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <<a href="mailto:edd@debian.org">edd@debian.org</a>> wrote:<br>
|<br>
|<br>
| Damian,<br>
|<br>
| On 20 January 2014 at 20:12, Damian Lyons wrote:<br>
| | Dear Rcpp developers,<br>
| |<br>
| | Firstly, many thanks for your work on Rcpp. It has saved me<br>
| countless hours<br>
| | (or is that months?) of simulation time.<br>
| |<br>
| | I'm a big fan of RcppArmadillo and Armadillo. Recently I came<br>
| across MLPACK,<br>
| | which is a large and useful C++ machine learning library that uses<br>
| Armadillo:<br>
| | <a href="http://mlpack.org" target="_blank">http://mlpack.org</a><br>
|<br>
| Sure. I am in somewhat regular contact with Ryan Curtin, its lead<br>
| developer,<br>
| because of our joint interactions with Conrad and his priceless<br>
| Armadillo<br>
| library. But Ryan is a grad student, and we while we have talked<br>
| about R<br>
| binding (meaning the real thing and not just some SWIG interfaces), he<br>
| is not<br>
| exactly overflowing with free time. Neither am I.<br>
|<br>
| | If you have the time to do so, I humbly request for an official<br>
| RcppMLPACK<br>
| | package. I believe other people will also find it useful. I'm<br>
| currently<br>
| | copying and pasting code out of MLPACK into my own package, but this<br>
| is not the<br>
| | most friendly solution.<br>
|<br>
| This makes YOU the perfect candidate to start a project NOW as YOU need<br>
| IT.<br>
| And YOU have already worked with both pieces.<br>
|<br>
| None of our projects became what they are overnight. You have to start<br>
| somewhere. Do it right, do it in the open, and if you do that and<br>
| have some<br>
| luck maybe others will join and help.<br>
|<br>
| Dirk<br>
|<br>
| --<br>
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| School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University<br>
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Dirk Eddelbuettel | <a href="mailto:edd@debian.org">edd@debian.org</a> | <a href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com" target="_blank">http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com</a><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Qiang Kou<div><a href="mailto:qkou@umail.iu.edu" target="_blank">qkou@umail.iu.edu</a><br><div>School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University</div>
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