prrd 0.0.3 on CRAN: More improvements Parallel Running [of] Reverse Depends dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats

R 4.0.0, to be released April 24, now has an rc version---which I just uploaded to @Debian experimental, plus @Ubuntu 18.04, 19.10 and 20.04 builds via ppa:edd/r-4.0. Please test these widely. How? Intro posts/videos dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats

RcppArmadillo 0.9.860.2.0 on CRAN: Upstream updates R bindings to powerful and expressive C++ matrix library dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rcpp #rstats

gettz 0.0.4 on CRAN: Routine update Get the Timezone Information Fallback dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats

R^4 #25: Test, test, test, ... those R 4.0.0 binaries Using a Rocker containers to run R 4.0.0 pre-release binaries Introducing R^4 Lightning Talk Video #3 Now showing @Ubuntu 20.04 (pre-release) container dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats

R^4 #24: Test, test, test, ... those R 4.0.0 binaries Using a Rocker containers to run R 4.0.0 pre-release binaries Introducing R^4 Lightning Talk Video #2 dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats

Rcpp 1.0.4.6 on CRAN Seamless R and C++ Integration dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rcpp #rstats

And just ... wow. Look at the API using Modern C++ on the left, and the output on the right. Not only faster than everything else but now also expressive. (Minimally tweaked from the example the blog post by @lemire). #rstats #rcpp

RcppSimdJson 0.0.4 on CRAN: Even Faster Upstream Highest-performance JSON Parsing via Modern C++ from R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rcpp #rstats /cc @lemire @_davecooley