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Last Friday, Romain and I

were guests of the R intergrouplet (what an adorable name!) at

Google’s headquarter in Mountain View. This arose out of discussions following

useR! 2010

where we met Google’s Murray Stokely. There appears to be ever increasing use of

R at Google, and so it was a

great opportunity to give a Google Tech Talk about R and

C++ integration — centered around our

Rcpp,

RInside and

RProtoBuf packages which facilitate

interoperability between R and C++.

A video recording of

our ninety-minute talk is already available via

the YouTube channel for Google Tech Talks.

The (large) pdf with slides (which

Romain had

already posted on slideshare) is also available from my

presentations page.

The remainder of the weekend was nice too (with the notably exception of the extremly sucky

weather). We got to to spend some time at the

Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit which is always a fun

event and a great way to meet other open source folks in person. And we also took one

afternoon off to spend some with John Chambers discussing further work involving

Rcpp and the new ReferenceClasses that

appeared in the just-released R version 2.12.0. This should be a nice avenue to

further integrate R and C++ in the near future.