[Rcpp-devel] RcppMLPACK ?

[Qiang Kou]

Hi, I think we can try to start this in the summer, since I am also a
little busy as a student.

I my opinion, we can follow the structure of RcppArmadillo and start from
'as' and 'wrap' functions for matrix structure in mlpack.

Best,

KK


On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 10:10 PM, James Li <jamesyili at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Damian and other Rcpp Devs,
>
> I am extremely interested in putting in (non-trivial) time into something
> like this - but I am not sure I am expert enough to head such a project.
>
> My question to you is: have you or anyone else started a project like this
> that I can contribute to? And if not, could someone point me the right way
> to get started?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Best,
> James
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> Damian,
>>
>> On 20 January 2014 at 20:12, Damian Lyons wrote:
>> | Dear Rcpp developers,
>> |
>> | Firstly, many thanks for your work on Rcpp.  It has saved me countless
>> hours
>> | (or is that months?) of simulation time.
>> |
>> | I'm a big fan of RcppArmadillo and Armadillo.  Recently I came across
>> MLPACK,
>> | which is a large and useful C++ machine learning library that uses
>> Armadillo:
>> | http://mlpack.org
>>
>> Sure. I am in somewhat regular contact with Ryan Curtin, its lead
>> developer,
>> because of our joint interactions with Conrad and his priceless Armadillo
>> library.  But Ryan is a grad student, and we while we have talked about R
>> binding (meaning the real thing and not just some SWIG interfaces), he is
>> not
>> exactly overflowing with free time. Neither am I.
>>
>> | If you have the time to do so, I humbly request for an official
>> RcppMLPACK
>> | package.  I believe other people will also find it useful.  I'm
>> currently
>> | copying and pasting code out of MLPACK into my own package, but this is
>> not the
>> | most friendly solution.
>>
>> This makes YOU the perfect candidate to start a project NOW as YOU need
>> IT.
>> And YOU have already worked with both pieces.
>>
>> None of our projects became what they are overnight. You have to start
>> somewhere.  Do it right, do it in the open, and if you do that and have
>> some
>> luck maybe others will join and help.
>>
>> Dirk
>>
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Qiang Kou
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School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
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