Dirk Eddelbuettel
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PhD)
Dirk Eddelbuettel | |
|---|---|
| Citizenship | Germany |
| Education | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (MSc) University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PhD) |
| Occupations | Data scientist, software engineer |
| Employer | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Known for | R programming, Debian developer, Rocker Project |
| Title | Adjunct Clinical Professor of Statistics |
| Website | dirk |
Dirk Eddelbuettel is a Canadian statistician, data scientist and researcher. He is the author of the open-source software package Rcpp,[1] written in the R programming language, and has also written the textbook Seamless R and C++ Integration with Rcpp[2] on the topic.[3] He is co-founder of the R In Finance Conference. In addition, he has contributed to many packages in R as well as the Debian project. He is also a co-creator of the Rocker Project bringing Docker to R.
Eddelbuettel has an M.Sc in Industrial Engineering (Comp.Sci./OR) from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. He received an M.A. and a PhD in Financial Econometrics from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in France.[4]
