Data Science Programming Methods is back as STAT 447 for Fall 2021, and just started. Expanded shell programming, two guest lectures, the usual mix of git, md, sql, and #RStats will make for am exciting term, for more see stat447.com @Illinois_Alma @IllinoisStat

RcppFastFloat 0.0.3 on CRAN: Maintenance R Acccess tp Number Parsing at a Gigabyte per Second dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rcpp #rstats

Looking at daily NEWS change in the development version of #RStats via the RSS feed is always rewarding, and right after a release is often most interesting for changes 😁 Thanks to @bastistician and (twitterless?) Duncan Murdoch for theses making vignettes builds better.

RcppBDT 0.2.4 on CRAN: Updates R Bindings for the Boost Date_Time Library dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats #rcpp

RApiDatetime 0.0.6 (and 0.0.5): Updated (Twice!) Exported C-level API of R for Date + Datetime conversion dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats

x13binary 1.1.57-2 on CRAN: Small Packaging Changes X13-ARIMA by the US Census Bureau for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats /cc @christoph_sax

#ThankYouCRAN, and congratulations on another round number of #RStats packages -- now at 18,000. Just wow.

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And #RStats 4.1.1 @Debian binaries have been built and uploaded (still to experimental during freeze, also to my PPA on @GitHub), @Ubuntu binaries to follow thanks to @marutterstat. #RockerProject containers updated and pushed, PR to @Docker official library for `r-base` filed.

nanotime 0.3.3 on CRAN: Some Updates High-resolution nanosecond time functionality for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats #rcpp