CRAN takes its Policy very seriously. 108 packages removed in one day. Follow CRANberries via html, rss or here via @CRANberriesFeed Follow CRAN Policy changes on @GitHub or via @CRANPolicyWatch #rstats

R-devel now officially has 'raw' character constant strings like C++ as it just made the NEWS.Rd file (and its nightly RSS feed). Thanks once again to @LukeTierney4 for what may become quite widely used. #rstats #rdevel

RcppSimdJson 0.0.1 on CRAN: Initial Upload Highest-performance JSON Parsing via Modern C++ from R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats #rcpp /cc @lemire @geofflangdale

digest 0.6.24 on CRAN: More refinements Hash digests for arbitrary R objects dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats #tinytest /cc @wmlandau

RcppArmadillo 0.9.850.1.0: New upstream version R bindings to powerful and expressive C++ matrix library dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats #rcpp #tinytest

RProtoBuf 0.4.15 on CRAN: One bugfix, some polish, a deprecation plan An R interface to Google Protocol Buffers data serialization dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… See the blog post for details on a deprecation plan for a very minor feature. #rstats #rcpp #tinytest

It seems that the answer does not coincide with difftime() gives. Below is a shorter @rdatatable solution which gives the same answer as base R. data.table(now=Sys.Date())[ , st:=as.IDate(paste0(year(now)-3,"-01-01"))][ , d:=difftime(now,st)][] #rstats

With recent noise about 'Orphaned' packages at CRAN, a heartfelt Thank You! to @GaborCsardi for adopting lpSolve. CRAN quality is what we make of it as a community---under the invaluable stewardship of the CRAN maintainers. As always a really big thanks to CRAN too. #rstats

RcppArmaillo 0.9.800.4.0 on CRAN: Small upstream fix R bindings to powerful and expressive C++ matrix library dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats #rcpp

Works here so <shrug>