[Pl-seminar] Oct. 2 Seminars 10am--1pm: A day of R

[William J. Bowman]

NUPRL Seminar presents

A day of R.

We have three back-to-back talks relating to the R programming language.


Talk 0
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Luke Tierney
University of Iowa

10am--11am
Friday, October 2 2015
366 (Room 366 WVH (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/directions.html))

Some New Developments for the R Engine

Abstract:
R is a dynamic language for statistical computing and graphics. In
recent years R has become a major framework for both statistical
practice and research. This talk present a very brief outline of the R
language and its evolution and describe some current efforts on
improvements to the core computational engine, including work on
compilation of R code, efforts to take advantage of multiple processor
cores, and modifications to support working with larger data sets.

Bio:
Luke Tierney is a Professor Statistics at the University of Iowa and
one of the key contributors to the R project.


Talk 1
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Kevin Ushey
RStudio

11am--12pm
Friday, October 2 2015
366 (Room 366 WVH (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/directions.html))


Completions and Diagnostics in RStudio

Abstract:
Kevin will discuss the details behind the implementation of
completions + diagnostics, as well as some future goals re: enabling
user extensibility of both the autocompletion and diagnostics systems.


Bio:
Kevin is a software engineer at RStudio who primarily works on the
RStudio IDE. He is responsible for two large user-facing features that
became part of RStudio v0.99: enhanced autocompletions and R code
diagnostics.


Talk 2
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Jan Vitek
Northeastern University

12am--1pm
Friday, October 2 2015
366 (Room 366 WVH (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/directions.html))


Using LLVM as a backend for R

Abstract:
I will provide an update on the status of the Reactor project which aims
to use LLVM as just-in-time compiler for the R language. I will discuss
early challenges such as integration in the environment and garbage
collection suport.


Bio:
Jan Vitek is a Professor at Northeastern, he works on programming
language design and implementation.


-- 
William J. Bowman

Northeastern University
College of Computer and Information Science
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