#r2u keeps on trucking: now just over five million .deb packages for #Rstats on Ubuntu LTS (focal or jammy) in the thirteen months since the start. Easy, fast, reliable -- pick all three! eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u/

So this happens once one become empty nesters with daughters at college: all of a sudden you find yourself feeding your neighborhood niece and nephew for home-made pizza night.

RcppArmadillo 0.12.4.0.0 on CRAN: New Upstream Minor R bindings to powerful and expressive C++ matrix library dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rcpp #rstats

#Rstats package `RcppArmadillo` package has 1074 reverse dependencies. The last update was processed without any manual inspection, extra emails steps, or nags. Some people may try telling you that CRAN is 'onerous' or 'difficult'. They are wrong. cran.r-project.org/package=R…

qlcal 0.0.6 on CRAN: More updates from QuantLib QuantLib Business / Exchange Calendaring for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rcpp #rstats

`anytime::anydate` has done this for years without requiring a format (which leads its heuristic to reject your second example: if you use eight digits it assumes yyyymmdd). There is also 'rodney dangerfield danger' when mixing mm and dd order but ISO 8601 (+ variants) is safe.

RcppSimdJson 0.1.10 on CRAN: New Upstream Highest-performance JSON Parsing via Modern C++ from R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rcpp #rstats /cc @lemire

crc32c 0.0.2 on CRAN: Build Fixes Hardware-accelerated crc32c checksums for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats

crc32c 0.0.1 on CRAN: New Package Hardware-accelerated crc32c checksums for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats