Wow! Iran left a thank you note in their locker room thanking LA for its hospitality during the World Cup. Be sure you read the last line: “May peace, respect, and friendship prevail among all nations.” (Source: Reuters)

Meet {tooey}, a minimal TUI framework for #rstats github.com/devOpifex/to...

Talk to @matrix.org from R. mx.client 0.1.1 just landed on CRAN, completing the mx.* trio. Install it for config, rooms, sync, and markdown; add mx.crypto for Olm/Megolm E2EE. h/t @eddelbuettel.com for finally getting me onto Matrix. #rstats cornball.ai/posts/mx-cli...

tl-0.0.1 on CRAN: New Package Tiny, fast, capable, and consistent C++ and R logging dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/06... #rstats

I continue to be impressed by the Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics, focusing on important innovations, rather than always trying to tease out individuals. Here it is given to the R project. Particular shout out to Brian Ripley whose contribution to the statistical commons was massive.

RcppArmadillo 15.4.0-1 on CRAN: New Upstream Minor R bindings to powerful and expressive C++ matrix library dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/06... #rstats #rcpp

BBC article about Brian Ripley of the #RStats Core team given this week's excellent news concerning 2026 Rousseeuw Price for Statistics recognition for him and the core team. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Seventeen months down. Leaves 945 days. One day at a time.

I love this so much

And so it begins.

If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250

Just a friendly reminder. If the US had taken only a small fraction of the money and military equipment it has squandered fighting and losing to Iran, and instead helped Ukraine, the Middle East would be more stable and Russia would be facing defeat.

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

Reproducing the Rousseeuw Prize citation ordering with a few lines of #Rstats code from an older blog post. And once again sincere congratulations for an award so well deserved.

The 2026 laureates are Brian Ripley, Martin Maechler, Kurt Hornik, Peter Dalgaard, and Luke Tierney who have made the longest sustained contribution to #RStats. Half of the $1m prize money is awarded to the laureates and half to the rest of the Core Team.

The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

rspdlite 0.1.0-1 on CRAN: New Package! Tiny, fast, capable C++20 logger for R packages dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/06... #rstats

PSA: The #rstats "newbies" queue is up at 180 packages. A possible record? Run `ciw.r --newbies --lines 200 --max 200` on the command-line (with pagination at 200), or `ciw::ciw("newbies", max_age=200)` from R (with #data.table pagination printing). See cran.r-project.org/package=ciw for more.

rbenchmark 1.0.1 on CRAN: New(ly Adopted) Package! Benchmarking Routine for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/06... #rstats

This is amazeballs of the highest order: JSON 'compilation' as a parse at compile time! It will be nice to rely on this once gcc-16 is more widely deployed in a few years.

First WC 2026 game final score of 'Red Cards 3 : 2 Goals' Three points to red cards who increase their chance of advancing from the group stage. Overall verdict is that we may all feel in 5 1/2 weeks that 48 teams is a wee bit too many. Or make it 64 and switch to 'March Madness' knockouts.

We all knew FIFA’s motivations for the hydration break was financial and not “player safety” but my god how was it over exploited this fast.

#rstats 4.6.1 "Happy Hop" scheduled for June 24. Full schedule on developer.r-project.org (or the svn if you're impatient.)

Literally all the referees, including the American ones, should boycott. But nobody will because most people excuse racism unless it's happening to them personally.

I can’t.

RQuantLib 0.4.27 on CRAN: Small Extension Quantitative Finance library bindings for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/06... #rstats #rcpp

I just went 82-0, think you can go 82-0? www.82-0.com/share?id=CzF...

Very good idea. and "not dissimilar" to my CRAN package `sanitizers` which lets us validate ASAN/UBSAN tests with known failures. We have a near infinite supply here. Today I got a new one from R-devel I had never neen, and one from 'pretest' that neither R-release nor R-devel check for 🤯 #rstats

Updated laptop from #Ubuntu 25.10 to 26.04 yesterday while I watched the soccer game. Nice and 'boring' engineering excellence: not a single config file to edit, full update was 100% automated, and biggest fun was ~800 #Rstats binaries flying in after "Enabled: yes" was reset for the #r2u repo.

He was never satisfied with his music. Somewhere, maybe at the bottom of the ocean or beyond the stars, there was an ultimate sound. Our obituary of the saxophone colossus

John Fox (1947-2025) An obituary of R Foundation member John Fox by Peter Dalgaard. www.r-project.org/doc/obit/joh... #rstats

(Damn) good day for a bike ride, especially one with an early stopover at Pequod's Pizza!

“I’m Kid Rock.” “I’m Naomi Wolf.” “I’m Kanye West.” “I’m Matt Taibbi.” “I’m Catturd. Those stories, plus Rob Schneider, tonight on 60 Minutes.”

They clearly must have seen my stern message about Arthur "Are you effing kidding me" Laffler writing and are starting to once again to focus on the things that matter. Such as footie! With proper nerd analytics! And a chart! (Even if the omitted the byline from this skeet.)

Absolutely phenomenal infrastructure work by Dirk, one of the giants of the R community. This kind of work is of high importance, but (usually) does not get the recognition it deserves. Thank you for your continued commitment to excellence.

Everybody likes a round number -- and #r2u just surpassed eighty million #Ubuntu binaries shipped. All carefully crafted via GitHub Actions from #RStats CRAN packages. #r2u: Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick All Three.

The price of my @economist.com print subscription essentially doubled in the last few years, and now I see the money is used to let Arthur Laffer go on about the glory days (which he defines as when a few people stll listened to him). Astonishing. Almost as if they really want me to cancel.

Everybody likes a round number -- and #r2u just surpassed eighty million #Ubuntu binaries shipped. All carefully crafted via GitHub Actions from #RStats CRAN packages. #r2u: Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick All Three.

RcppArmadillo 15.2.7-1 on CRAN: Micro Upstream Update R bindings to powerful and expressive C++ matrix library dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/05... #rstats #rcpp

Maybe I’m biased, but I’m starting to think R is the best language for agentic engineering. #rstats cornball.ai/posts/cortez...

Let’s get this done www.change.org/p/rename-the...

Robert Gentleman, co-founder of #rstats, receives an honorary doctorate from #UBC 🎈🎈🎈

The NY Times did this a year ago. It's well done, and it contains G-Man. My starter pick might be "St Thomas", and as I recall the live version recommended by Joshua Redman sparkles. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/a...

The family has a (now freshly hooded following last year's defense) new doctor!

nanotime 0.3.15 on CRAN: Coping High-resolution nanosecond time functionality for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/05... #rstats #rcpp

So nice of my all-time fave and overall musical hero David Byrne to swing by @colbertlateshow.bsky.social to deliver the theme song of what is happening under Bari Weiss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtvK...

Sixteen months down. Leaves 976 days. One day at a time.

In memoriam Tomáš Kalibera (1978–2026). www.r-project.org/doc/obit/tom...