high-performance computing

Major Update for revss Package for R – v3.1.0

Published by on March 18, 2026

The revss Package for R Receives Major Update to Version 3.1.0 This is a big one! The revss package for R, which provides robust estimation for small samples, received a major, breaking update. The entire calculation engine was rewritten, new functionality added, and massive Monte Carlo analyses were run to calculate bias reduction factors. It Read the full article…

The Need for Speed Part 2: C++ vs. Fortran vs. C

Published by on December 23, 2018 | 1 Response
The Need for Speed Part 2: C++ vs. Fortran vs. C

Searching for Speed In my previous post, I described the method I use for compiling Fortran (or C) into an R package using the .Call interface. This post will compare the speed of various implementations of the layer loss cost function. The Function Often, insurance or reinsurance is bought in stratified horizontal layers. For example, Read the full article…