Dirk Eddelbuettel
Code, Data, Analysis, Teaching, Running, Breadmaking ... https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
"God doesn't know, and the devil isn't telling." xkcd.com/2867/
- Life imitating art: @spotify now serving me BeeGees "Nights on Broadway" which, while a fine song, is only known to me via the Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon skit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_Ea...
- RcppSMC 0.2.8 on CRAN: Maintenance Sequential Monte Carlo / Particle Filters for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/05... #rcpp #rstats
- RcppSpdlog 0.0.22 on CRAN: New Upstream Modern C++ logging for R extension packages dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/05... #rcpp #rstats
- R^4 Post #047: r2u at its Third Birthday 42 million packages shipped, arm64 support added, and now at #Rstats 4.5.0 and BioConductor 3.21 dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/05... #r2u: Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick All Three.
- Green Chartreuse alert: Had a lovely dinner at a local restaurant featuring Green Chartreuse on the cocktail menu, so I ordered an (amazing!!) one called "What Lola wants" or alike, gin-based. Ring a bell? Now back home, Google is of no help. Anyone, Bueller? Tagging @kjhealy.co too.
- Remove a letter, ruin a movie. Casio
- #r2u has now shipped over 41 million binary CRAN #Rstats packages for #Ubuntu. Supports amd64 on the last three LTS releases, and arm64 on the current one. #r2u: Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick All Three. See eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u for more.
- RcppArmadillo 14.4.2-1 on CRAN: Another Small Upstream Fix R bindings to powerful and expressive C++ matrix library dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/04... #rcpp #rstats
- RQuantLib 0.4.26 on CRAN: Small Updates Quantitative Finance library bindings for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/04... #rcpp #rstats
- The Economist is into counting remaining days too:
- qlcal 0.0.15 on CRAN: Calendar Updates QuantLib Business / Exchange Calendaring for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/04... #rcpp #rstats
- RInside 0.2.19 on CRAN: Mostly Maintenance The easiest way to embed R in your C++ (and C) applications dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/04... #rcpp #rstats
- The "Getting Started in R - Tinyverse Edition" eight-page pdf guide now has a 2nd edition using, appropriately, `tinyplot` as the plotting package. See github.com/eddelbuettel... for more. #rstats
- Three months down. This last one felt like a year. Leaves 1371 days. One day at a time.
- AsioHeaders 1.30.2-1 on CRAN: New Upstream Cross-platform C++ library for network and low-level I/O dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/04... #rcpp #rstats
- If fourty-two is the answer then I seem to have one hundred answers here.
- AsioHeaders 1.28.2-1 on CRAN: New Upstream Cross-platform C++ library for network and low-level I/O dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/04... #rstats #rcpp
- Another run at the wheat + whole grain + rye + "1979 grain mix" loaf. But absentmindly forgot the sunflower and pumpkin seeds. #breadsky
- "Kids these days" -- here is the newest from daughter #2 so congratulations to all!
- nanotime 0.3.12 on CRAN: Maintenance High-resolution nanosecond time functionality for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/04... #rcpp #rstats
- #Rstats is being rewritten in Rust, and the R Core already has a book coming out!
- Rblpapi 0.3.15 on CRAN: Several Refinements Direct and efficient R interface to Bloomberg Terminal dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/03... #rstats #rcpp
- RProtoBuf 0.4.24 on CRAN: Minor Polish An R interface to Google Protocol Buffers data serialization dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/03... #rstats #rcpp
