Dirk Eddelbuettel

STAT 447 was priviliged to have @vincentab@fosstodon.org deliver a wonderful (and, naturally, impressive) guest lecture on 'Model to Meaning' this week (see below for details). Everybody was ok with recording, so this is now on YouTube. #rstats

https://emails.illinois.edu/newsletter/99/1080612499.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3TX9nXHXo8

So #Rstats 4.6.0 is out. Some people are fire-breathing "OMG need to update all packages". We also discuss within Debian if we need a new 'tag' (as we did for R 4.0.0). I happen to think a more nuanced approach is possible, and I have a little write-up and tests. Comments welcome. #r2u

https://github.com/eddelbuettel/R-4.6.0-binary-transition

Quick #r2u update for #Rstats and #Ubuntu:

- R 4.6.0 available on all three LTS releases ✅
- BioConductor 3.23 available on all three LTS releases ✅
- Ubuntu 26.04 support available for arm64 and amd64 ✅

#r2u. Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick all three.

https://eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u/

Say hello to day 20,000 (since the epoch). #rstats

#r2u is absolutely cooking right now! Over 200k downloads by 10:20h; over 160k in the last three hours. Over 250k yesterday.

Evidently robust demand for installing or upgrading your CRAN packages for #Rstatst via `apt` at a system level.

#r2u: Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick All Three.

Sponsor me for Tour de Shore 2026 and support the Maywood Fine Arts Center!
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/04/03#sponsor_tour_de_shore_2026

binb 0.0.8 on CRAN: Maintenance
Crisper Beamer PDF slides from (R)Markdown
https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/05/01#binb_0.0.8
#rstats

RProtoBuf 0.4.27 on CRAN: Upstream Adjustment
An R interface to Google Protocol Buffers data serialization
https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/04/26#rprotobuf_0.4.27
#rstats #rcpp

dtts 0.1.4 on CRAN: Maintenance
data.table time series ops at nanosecond resolution
https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/04/23#dtts_0.1.4
#rstats #rcpp

qlcal 0.1.1 on CRAN: Calendar Updates
QuantLib Business / Exchange Calendaring for R
https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/04/15#qlcal-r_0.1.1
#rstats #rcpp

@Drmowinckels @hrbrmstr @hye @debruine It is a little more more obvious if you are old enough to know about attach (which was once common, but no longer is for good reasons) as it makes columns of your data.frame first-class objects. And that is were the constraint comes from.

nanotime 0.3.14 on CRAN: Upstream Maintenance
High-resolution nanosecond time functionality for R
https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/04/22#nanotime_0.3.14
#rcpp #rstats

/cc @michaelchirico@econtwitter.net

RcppArmadillo 15.2.6-1 on CRAN: Several Updates
R bindings to powerful and expressive C++ matrix library
https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/04/21#rcpparmadillo_15.2.6-1
#rcpp #rstats