tint 0.1.3 on CRAN: html margin fixes, new demo tint is not tufte -- a fresher look for the Tufte style dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats

drat 0.1.8 on CRAN: Small test fix for oldrel Create and manage R repositories with ease dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats

RcppArmadillo 0.9.900.2.0 on CRAN: Minor upstream update R bindings to powerful and expressive C++ matrix library dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats #rcpp

New `-use-LTO` flag in R-devel to enable link-time optimization (i.e. "whole program optimization") for packages. This will likely add a few percent in performance at the cost of slower compilation. #rstats

drat 0.1.7 on CRAN: Moar features! Create and manage R repositories with ease dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats With special thanks to (twitterless?) Felix Ernst for all the work on this release.

RcppSimdJson 0.1.0 on CRAN: Windows (!!), Parsers (!!), Faster Still (!!) Highest-performance JSON Parsing via Modern C++ from R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rcpp #rstats /cc @knapply_ @lemire @_davecooley

AsioHeaders 1.16.1-1 on CRAN: Upstream update Cross-platform C++ library for network and low-level I/O dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats #rcpp

Rcpp 1.0.5 on CRAN: Several Updates Seamless R and C++ Integration dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats #rcpp With thanks for PRs from @kevin_ushey @dvaughan32 @xhochy and Mattias Ellert

Rcpp now used by 2000 (and 1 in 8) CRAN packages Seamless R and C++ integration dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rcpp #rstats