Because he gets no ♥️ here: BDR is a saint. Got a nice and quiet email pointing out one last use of sprintf in #Rcpp (we generally use snprintf; this case was safe) as macOS 13 deprecates it. I already fixed in a branch, now testing. He is so tireless, and so helpful. #rstats

I see him as a Biblical god figure. Brimstone and fire, but lots of love too. Had a few email interactions and I have learned a lot. His work on R and its quality is really underappreciated.

I was fortunate to meet him in person, at the first or second R conference I went to about twenty years ago---and he was still well enough to travel. In person he is very kind, very quiet and rather gentle. A giant. And he does all this sounds with severely impacted sight.