RcppCCTZ 0.2.14 on CRAN: New Upstream, Small Edits Powerful C++ timezone / datetime library for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/01... #rstats #rcpp

RcppSpdlog 0.0.24 on CRAN: New Upstream Modern C++ logging for R extension packages dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/01... #rcpp #rstats

Yay

This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

A rose by any other name? In Jan 1979 Bradley Efron published his bootstrap resampling method.‘Bootstrap’ was derived from “The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen”- the baron pulled himself out of a swamp by his own bootstraps. But Efron's friends had other suggestions...

The world may well be going down the drain ... but then $evilStreamingCorp just served me this so there are small moments of respite. open.spotify.com/track/4NHNzt...

No cheating. Reskeet the most recent picture of your pet(s).

Canada: Our Prime Minster studied at Oxford and Harvard, was the Governor of both the Banks of England and Canada, and is recognized as one of the sharpest financial minds around. America: oh yeah? Our guy has to take dementia tests every week.

According to the new rules, if you and a few friends go to a defense contractor’s testing facility and you say “where are the missiles” and they don’t let you in then all federal funds for defense contractors will be frozen

Obsessed with this juxtaposition

Ending the year with a good looking cassoulet. Bon appétit et bonne année!

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

this new years eve I'm reminded of an old Soviet toast: Here's to another average year - worse than the one before it, but better than the one ahead

That's enough LinkedIn for the rest of my life.

This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.

Linus Torvalds posted the Visio/SFC ruling pdf on mastodon (alt txt), calling it a "GPLv2 affirmation" concluding that the kernel covers software without direct implications for userspace software. This matches the #rstats situation: R itself is GPL-2+, but does not impose on licenses of user code.

Earlier today I listened to a podcast where someone described their work "using a new AI method such as clustering". The relevant Wikipedia page has citations from the 1930s. And how is your day going?

Always nice to see someone put the petal to the metal for #r2u: a quick 10x in use pulling over 60k #rstats CRAN binaries for Ubuntu in about an hour. #r2u: Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick All Three.

Eleven months down. Leaves 1127 days. One day at a time. Some months feel longer than others. Recently all of them do. But we are moving on, one day a time.

A damning indictment of Ken Martin and Democratic Party leadership. Yes, the autopsy will piss people off (especially those who led the Biden and the Harris campaigns). That's the point. Their failures were catastrophic for the country. Dems also need to show voters they get it and are reforming.

Has anybody written an 'agent' (or 'script' as we used to call it) detecting incoming SMS messages containing Reply STOP to End and which immediately replies with 'STOP' ? #getOffMyLawnAlready

dang 0.0.17: New Features, Plus Maintenance A collection of a few small helper functions dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/12... #rstats

RcppArmadillo 15.2.3-1 on CRAN: Upstream Update R bindings to powerful and expressive C++ matrix library dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/12... #rcpp #rstats

MIT's famous 'Missing Semester' course (for the Independent Activities Period in January is back. missing.csail.mit.edu/2026/

BH 1.90.0-1 on CRAN: New Upstream Boost C++ header goodness for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/12... #rstats #rcpp

"Measles. An old-fashioned word. People do not say much any more. But we increased it, 5,000%, 10,000%, 15,000%. The likes of which nobody has seen before. Measles." For once he would not even be lying.

Our cat is smelling the bacon (while I prepare two 'Flammkuchen' aka 'tarte flambée'). We did not share with her though.

The great McCoy Tyner, born today in 1938. “I play what I live,” he said. “My music is a reflection of the life I’ve lived so far, and of the people I’ve been blessed to be around. Everything that happens to you, everything you see, it all goes into the music somehow.” “Impressions” #RIP 🙏🏼

New in Health Affairs last week, we evaluated the impact of New York’s Basic Health Program (BHP) on pregnancy-related insurance coverage: www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

r^4 post #056: Running r-ci with R-devel Adding R-devel to r-ci is a one-liner dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/12... #rstats #continuousintegration

Episode 412 of 'Never Argue with an (Astro)Physicist'. Everybody should read "More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity" by @adambecker.bsky.social because he cuts decisively through the crap. www.amazon.com/More-Everyth...

Me talking about my book: karenchristensen.substack.com/p/how-cars-m...

"Oh, I can't believe it And people are strange Our president's crazy Did you hear what he said?" Talking Heads Making Flippy Floppy www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFNM...

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

Episode 527 of why you never want to rely on a commerical service to host something for you 'forever'. As many people have eloquently stated before, better to register your own domain for control (at ~ $10/year) and use hosting at GitHub Pages, Netlify, Cloudflare, ... #rstats #digitallife

Timeless hover too: "Tired of waiting on hold? Use our website to chat with one of our live agents, who are available to produce words at you 24/7!"

Because of "science" I was "forced" to produce a control group batch with regular flour (also measured by cup not scale). Turned out rather nicely. The hype on the recipe is real.

Pete Hegseth says he’s going to court-martial me for saying the same exact thing he said 9 years ago. What changed for Pete? Well to start, he spends all day thinking about how he can suck up to Trump. When Trump says jump, he says how high.

duckdb-mlpack 0.0.5: Added kmeans, version helpers, documentation Bringing mlpack machine learning to duckdb SQL dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/12... #duckdb #datascience #mlpack Added kmeans, version helpers, documention

Kids stating their first Linux installation off newfangled cdroms ... Tst tst tst. Mine was MCC (Manchester Computing Centre) #Linux in 1994 off a small set of floppies. #Debian the following year, and have been contributing as a #Debian developer since for 30+ years. Also run #Ubuntu a lot.

Ten months down. Leaves 1149 days. One day at a time. And my bad for being nine days late this month. Whoops.

We somehow escaped cooking duties today but @juliaedd.bsky.social and I riffed on this somewhat recent @nytimes.com recipe for spicy gochujang sugar cookies cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023... by making it #glutenfree. Great effort / outcome ratio, so may do this again. #spiceishthespiceoflife

Been saying this for decades, and _actually meant it_. There is so much sanity checking done in a package that it absolutely certainly unquestionably is the correct container to assemble #Rstats code in.

Happy "Are we all getting money from Anthropic?" Day to those who celebrate!

tidyCpp 0.0.8 on CRAN: Maintenance Tidy C++ wrapping of the C API for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11... #rstats Mostly maintenance but also keeping up with R-devel changes to the C API reducing its surface

> @samsteindc.bsky.social

After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN! Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered jbgruber.github.io/traktok/

RcppQuantuccia 0.1.3 on CRAN: Micro Maintenance Self-containted QuantLib Calendar Library for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11... #rstats #rcpp Exchange / business calendaring based on QuantLib: initial package, but now `qlcal` is preferred / recommended