Dirk Eddelbuettel

@eddelbuettel
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Hey Future Dirk, next time you scramble for ten minutes to find which variable held all 'base' and 'recommended' #Rstats packages, just remember this post (and its Alt-text). You are welcome, sincerely, Current Dirk
tl-0.0.1 on CRAN: New Package
Tiny, fast, capable, and consistent C++ and R logging
https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/06/22#tl_0.0.1
#rstats
RcppArmadillo 15.4.0-1 on CRAN: New Upstream Minor
R bindings to powerful and expressive C++ matrix library
https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/06/21#rcpparmadillo_15.4.0-1
#rstats #rcpp

Even simpler with an `awk` file such as

svn log | awk '/r[0-9]+ / {print $3}'

after which we directly get the svn committers to tabulate. Next time :)

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 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project.

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.

https://www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics

The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics is a biennial prize to celebrate outstanding contributions to statistics research.

rspdlite 0.1.0-1 on CRAN: New Package!
Tiny, fast, capable C++20 logger for R packages
https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/06/16#rspdlite_0.1.0-1
#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 https://cran.r-project.org/package=ciw for more.

rbenchmark 1.0.1 on CRAN: New(ly Adopted) Package!
Benchmarking Routine for R
https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/06/14#rbenchmark_1.0.1
#rstats
RQuantLib 0.4.27 on CRAN: Small Extension
Quantitative Finance library bindings for R
https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/06/07#rquantlib_0.4.27
#rstats #rcpp