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It seems like a lifetime ago that I developed the weaver package for caching code chunks in Sweave documents. The paper that I presented at the DSC 2007 has finally been published in Computational Statistics. The title is Caching Code Chunks in Dynamic Documents: The weaver package. Here’s the abstract:

Authoring dynamic documents can become tedious for authors when a document contains one or more time consuming code chunks and each edit requires reprocessing all of the document. We introduce the weaver package that allows computationally expensive code chunks to be cached in order to speed up the edit/process/review cycle for dynamic documents authored using the Sweave framework.

And here a link to an unofficial pdf and the weaver package.

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Last Friday marked my last day at The Hutch and the end of my official involvement with the Bioconductor project. This weekend I am in transit. On Monday I will land at a stealth-mode startup company, Hypertext Solutions, where a new adventure will begin. Despite the fact that my new workplace is only four miles from my old office, I feel like I am on a plane heading far away. Like a trip to someplace you’ve never been before, it doesn’t seem real. Tomorrow I will arrive, step off the plane, and everything will be different.

I’ve really enjoyed my time at The Center, which began in 2003 when I took a position working with Ruth Etzioni. In early 2005 I left Ruth’s group to work with Robert Gentleman on Bioconductor. I’ve overseen almost six Bioconductor releases starting with BioC 1.6 (for R 2.1.0) which was released in March of 2005. Early next month, BioC 2.1 (for R 2.6.0) will be released. I’d like to think that I’ve left the project in a more organized state then when I arrived. I’ve certainly learned a lot while working on Bioconductor and have really enjoyed interacting with the ever growing community that surrounds the project.

I should mention that the Gentleman Lab is hiring. These are great people to work and The Hutch is a great place to work. Please pass along the following announcement to anyone you think would be interested: Robert’s job announcement bioc-devel.

For completeness, here’s the goodbye message I sent to the BioC lists a couple weeks ago.

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