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It is with great sadness that we announce the passing on 1 April of Tomáš Kalibera, a valuable member of the R Core Team for close to 10 years, after a short but aggressive illness.
Tomáš brought in fresh perspective and knowledge, enabling him to improve many aspects of R, including performance and reliability. He created many tools to support package authors, and modernized the Windows build of R.
He is survived by his wife and 1 year old son. A full obituary will be posted in due time.
Tricksy upstream P3M "bug" that might be affecting performance in some of your `renv` and `rv` enabled projects on MacOS. #rstats
Background Since R 4.3.0, CRAN has shipped an OpenMP runtime with its macOS distribution of R. This means that packages can support multithreading out of the box on Mac without users needing to configure ~/.R/Makevars and/or install from source (see OpenMP on macOS with Xcode tools). Several packages have already taken advantage of this by shipping configure scripts that detect the OpenMP runtime at build time and enable the appropriate compiler/linker flags. For example: data.table (PR #603...
Excited to share my new #rstats package: `tonyplot`!
(Wait. What, no? Fine, I'll show myself the door.)
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Grant McDermott
