Milestone: one million packages served by #r2u. For #Rstats on Ubuntu, all CRAN packages as binaries "fast, easy, reliably" from a well-connected mirror, all dependencies resolved via `apt`. I will talk about this tomorrow at the Cleveland RUG; a video may be forthcoming.

<Cough, cough> If only, #ChatGPT3. Your training data appears to either be five years out of data, or poorly edited: There was a bit of a black eye five years ago. But this years showing was much improved. Onwards to 2026 when North America hosts. #worldcup #usmnt

Apropos of events this week I tricked the much-talked about ChatGPT into stating that soccer is futile when we all know *that ball is life* (and many countries are in tears, the way it goes every four years). #worldcup #soccer

spdl 0.0.2 on CRAN: First Update Consistent R and C++ interface to spdlog logging dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats

And the graduate student can take pictures of her parents too.

Glorious weather for getting a campus tour.

spdl 0.0.1 on CRAN: New Package Consistent R and C++ interface to spdlog logging dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats

RcppClassic 0.9.13 on CRAN: Minor Update Deprecated previous Rcpp API dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats #rcpp

#r2u has updated its 240-ish `r-bioc-*` packages to the recent @BioConductor release 3.16. #r2u serves over 20,00 `r-cran-*` packages with full system-dependencies for @Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 along `r-bioc-*` packages. More (incl demos) at the site. eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u/

RcppSpdlog 0.0.10 on CRAN: New Features Modern C++ logging for R extension packages dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rcpp #rstats