RcppSpdlog 0.0.27 on CRAN: C++20 Accommodations
Modern C++ logging for R extension packages
https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/02/12#rcppspdlog_0.0.27
#rcpp #rstats

@steveroyle Given that all maintainers were genetically cloned from the same strand behaviour should be ...

Seriously, it's humans. Moreover, we easily see the repo had no commit or issue opened in quite some time so maybe the authors work more 'off' github? Have you considered sending an email?

chronometre: A new package (pair) demo for R and Python
Efficient yet simple object exchange between R and Python
https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/02/08#chronometre_initial_pair
#rstats #rcpp #python #datascience

chronometre: A new package (pair) demo for R and Python
Efficient yet simple object exchange between R and Python
https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/02/08#chronometre_initial_pair
#rstats #rcpp #python #datascience

@geospacedman Endless permutations are possible. You could start from an ubuntu-server 'headless' setup and install the xfce desktop metapackage.

Years ago I tried flipping back and forth (at the time between gnome/unity and kde and one other desktop) and removal of any one is not perfect. This message is typed on a machine that start as PopOS! but is now plain Ubuntu.

So at the end of this long essay I will recommend the invaluable "it all depends, so why don't you just try" to you. 😜

rfoaas 2.3.3: Limited Rebirth
A RESTful interface for R to the excellent FOAAS service
https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/02/04#rfoaas_2.3.3
#rstats

littler 0.3.23 on CRAN: More Features (and Fixes)
Everybody's favourite way to rock R at the command-line and in scripts
https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/02/04#littler_0.3.22
#rstats

Rcpp 1.1.1 on CRAN: Many Improvements in Semi-Annual Update
Seamless R and C++ Integration
https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/01/10#rcpp_1.1.1
#rstats #rcpp

/cc @kevinushey

@Lluis_Revilla That skeet and toot had an audience of one, and I am glad you found it already 😆

SVN commit r89366 brought two new and very interesting accessor for CRAN state internals and history to #rstats 'R-devel'.

We can probably build on these: history of 'actions', and history/state of 'issues'.

@infotroph What's your point here? The sequence operator `:` works on all integers a and b. So include zero if you want. That does not mean that zero is a valid index. Those are defined to be 1 to n where n is the vector length.

@sylvestre Howdy -- amd thanks for the follow-up.. Stuff happens. I filed a launchpad bug too against the package. Did you see that? Or is GH a better place for this?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rust-coreutils/+bug/2139037

@Lluis_Revilla @andrewnez @brodriguesco The real key, though, is that CRAN is so well-oiled, tested and excelling in its service guarantee that we _simply can_ build automated builder converting their sources into binaries (if we have our other ducks in a row, as nix and Ubuntu do).

@Lluis_Revilla @andrewnez @brodriguesco Goodhart's Law says "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" -- everything is easy to game. r2u also does not remove packages archived at CRAN so its count is higher. And when I look at Ubuntu noble aka 24.04 I get contributions from the binary 'amd64' packages, the binary 'all' packages usable on all ... and the binary 'arm64' packages. So my total for CRAN on 24.04 is now over 30k 😜

See https://eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u

PSA for Emacs users on Ubuntu 25.10: If `dired` mode no longer displays softlinks, one (very brute-force) way to fix is to rename the link to the `rust-coreutils` version of `ls` and link the alternate `gnuls` to `ls` in `/usr/bin`, or better still, just in `~/.bin` leaving `/usr` alone. Directory browsing restored. Bug report filed.

Following an Rcpp question 'how do I share an object / external pointer' between #Rstats and #Python, I cooked up a simple 'stopwatch' example in two repos with two packages:

https://github.com/eddelbuettel/chronometre-r
https://github.com/eddelbuettel/chronometre-py

The Python side is on PyPi, shall I send the R side to CRAN?

#r2u PSA: I added a 'rustup' invocation to the build containers so (current) `cargo` and `rustc` are present. If your Rust-using #Rstats package is on CRAN, it will be in #r2u as a (completely dependency-resolved) .deb binary that installs in seconds.

#r2u. Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick All Three.

RApiDatetime 0.0.11 on CRAN: Micro-Maintenance
Exported C-level API of R for Date + Datetime conversion
https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/01/19#rapidatetime_0.0.11
#rstats

@jorsste There is a helpful (and valid though 20 years (!!) old) article in the R Journal (or R News, then) by Uwe Ligges that shows how to get to the code of an R function. #rstats

https://www.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2006-4_Ligges_AccessSource.pdf