While CRAN may be "resting" (and upgrading tools), package managers never sleep. So please see the ghrr drat for - Rcpp: a snapshot 1.0.3.7 (next version in March) - BH: a bugfix 1.72.0-3 (will go to CRAN next week) More ghrr info at ghrr.github.io/drat/ #rcpp #rstats