Dirk Eddelbuettel

@eddelbuettel

Code, Data, Analysis, Teaching, Running, Breadmaking ... "God doesn't know, and the devil isn't telling." xkcd.com/2867/

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Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· 24d

In case you enjoyed this two-day (so far) firehose by @kevinmkruse.bsky.social as much as I did, and equally feel that your #Rstats session needs this as a `fortune`-alike tool, fear not. New package `myman` just dropped to offer you `myman()` randow selections. github.com/eddelbuettel...

Screenshot of R code and output illustrating new package `myman`:

> library(myman)
> set.seed(1) # replicable example
> myman()
My man looks like that stripper really likes him.
>
> myman(12) # or by index
My man looks like John Malkovich auditioning for The Godfather.
>

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· 28d

qlcal 0.1.2 on CRAN: Fresh Upstream Updates QuantLib Business / Exchange Calendaring for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/07... #rstats #rcpp

Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/07/14#qlcal-r_0.1.2 describing release 0.1.2 of CRAN package qlcal.

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jul 11

Norm Matloff (1948-2026) @matloff.bsky.social I was made aware of the post below made by his daughter. We lost another friend and valued long-time contributor the #Rstats community, gone far too soon, and sure to be missed. His memory will be a blessing.

Screenshot of post on X in the account of Norm Matloff in which his daughter announces his passing. Gone too soon, and sure to be missed.

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jul 11

RQuantLib 0.4.28 on CRAN: Small Update Quantitative Finance library bindings for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/07... #rstats #rcpp

Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/07/10#rquantlib_0.4.28 describing release 0.4.28 of CRAN package RQuantLib.

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jul 10

Liberté, Égalité, Mbappé ... ...is what I naming these three 'boules'. It's a switch for the finals from my usual multigrain loaves. #breadsky

Photo of three (all-wheat) "boules" resting after being baked.

Photo of a freshly cut endpiece of one "boule" revealing nice and airy sourdough-driven structure.

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jul 5

Rcpp 1.1.2 on CRAN: Usual Improvements in Semi-Annual Update Seamless R and C++ Integration dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/07... #rcpp #rstats @kevinushey.bsky.social @enchufa2.es

Screenshot one of two from https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/07/05#rcpp_1.1.2 describing the semi-annual release 1.1.2 of CRAN package Rcpp.

Screenshot two of two from https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/07/05#rcpp_1.1.2 describing the semi-annual release 1.1.2 of CRAN package Rcpp.

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jul 2

I was today years old when I learned base #Rstats has a helper function `data.matrix()`. Better late than never, and it's only been three decades give or take ...

example(data.matrix) and head(data.matrix(penguins))

> example(data.matrix)

dt.mtr> DF <- data.frame(a = 1:3, b = letters[10:12],
dt.mtr+ c = seq(as.Date("2004-01-01"), by = "week", length.out = 3),
dt.mtr+ stringsAsFactors = TRUE)

dt.mtr> data.matrix(DF[1:2])
a b
[1,] 1 1
[2,] 2 2
[3,] 3 3

dt.mtr> data.matrix(DF)
a b c
[1,] 1 1 12418
[2,] 2 2 12425
[3,] 3 3 12432
>
> head(data.matrix(penguins))
species island bill_len bill_dep flipper_len body_mass sex year
[1,] 1 3 39.1 18.7 181 3750 2 2007
[2,] 1 3 39.5 17.4 186 3800 1 2007
[3,] 1 3 40.3 18.0 195 3250 1 2007
[4,] 1 3 NA NA NA NA NA 2007
[5,] 1 3 36.7 19.3 193 3450 1 2007
[6,] 1 3 39.3 20.6 190 3650 2 2007
>

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jul 2

Does anybody else see a wave of recent followers with likely-generated names and weird profiles (zero followers, few dozen following, zero or few posts)? I guess it is an election year so maybe the bots are coming out?

Activity chart at bsky with many new recent followers. Bots?

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jun 30

tl 0.0.2 on CRAN: First Update Tiny, fast, capable, and consistent C++ and R logging dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/06... #rstats

Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/06/30#tl_0.0.2 describing release 0.0.2 of CRAN package tl.

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jun 29

There were four key changes making the posted xG chart such a steep step function. Canada was wasteful, but scored 'eventually' and on balance the result seems fair. South Africa had chances, but those were not as clear cut.

xG chart of Canada - South Africa with added highlights.

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jun 28

What hope? xG is pretty one sided - courtesy of @futi.live app:

Screenshot from futi app for Canada - South Africa game earlier today.

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jun 27

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

R code to collate the names of 'base' and 'recommended' packages into a single vector use with, e..g. `setdiff()`:

> tools:::.get_standard_package_names()
$base
[1] "base" "tools" "utils" "grDevices" "graphics" "stats"
[7] "datasets" "methods" "grid" "splines" "stats4" "tcltk"
[13] "compiler" "parallel"

$recommended
[1] "MASS" "lattice" "Matrix" "nlme" "survival"
[6] "boot" "cluster" "codetools" "foreign" "KernSmooth"
[11] "rpart" "class" "nnet" "spatial" "mgcv"

>
> base_recd <- unname(do.call(c, tools:::.get_standard_package_names()))
>
> base_recd
[1] "base" "tools" "utils" "grDevices" "graphics"
[6] "stats" "datasets" "methods" "grid" "splines"
[11] "stats4" "tcltk" "compiler" "parallel" "MASS"
[16] "lattice" "Matrix" "nlme" "survival" "boot"
[21] "cluster" "codetools" "foreign" "KernSmooth" "rpart"
[26] "class" "nnet" "spatial" "mgcv"
>

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jun 23

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

Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/06/22#tl_0.0.1 describing release 0.0.1 of CRAN package tl.

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jun 21

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

Screenshot of blog post at http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/06/21#rcpparmadillo_15.4.0-1 describing release 15.4.0-1 of CRAN package RcppArmadillo.

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jun 21

#TourDeShore Day Two, per #strava

Screenshot from strava summarizing day two of the Tour de Shore 2026.

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jun 21

#TourDeShore Day One, per #strava

Screenshot from strava summarizing day one of the Tour de Shore 2026.

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jun 20

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

R code and output for the number of days until Jan 20, 2029.

> difftime(as.Date("2029-01-20"), Sys.Date())
Time difference of 945 days
>

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jun 20

Mile 103, and how it ended. #TourDeShore

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jun 20

And that's how day two started.

Seven riders ready for day two of Tour de Shore

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jun 20

There is a shore in Tour de Shore.

Selfie at Long Beach, IN, beach with Lake Michigan behind us.

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jun 19

Mile 75, at friend's house in Long Beach, IN, and second half of #USMNT

Room full of tired cyclists watching some soccer.

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jun 19

Mile 72. With the #USMNT.

Photo of a bar counter with a fresh draft, and the US soccer team on the screen behind

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jun 19

Mile 56. "Shandy" aka "Radler".

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jun 19

And so it begins.

Group selfie at The Bean. About to Tour de Shore.

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jun 17

The prize does in fact go to all of R Core but five members are singled out. And the bit of code we used before (in 2007 and 2021) to `table()` and `order()` on SVN commits re-creates the very ordering. That was the question I aimed to answer here.

Screenshot of Rousseeuw Prize for Statististics 2026 citation.

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jun 17

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.

$R code and output: > x <- readLines(pipe("svn log")) # run in R's svn repo > rx <- x[grep("^r\\d+ \\|",x)] > who <- gsub(" ","",sapply(strsplit(rx,"\\|"),"[",2)) > twho <- table(who) > twho[rev(order(twho))[1:5]] who ripley maechler hornik pd luke 29782 9965 9092 2778 2253 >$

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jun 17

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

Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/06/16#rspdlite_0.1.0-1 describing release 0.1.0-1 of CRAN package rspdlite.

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jun 16

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.

Screenshot of running 'CRAN Incoming Watcher' aka `ciw::ciw()` allowing for up to 200 hours.

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jun 15

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

Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/06/14#rbenchmark_1.0.1 describing release 1.0.1 of CRAN package rbenchmark.

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel· Jun 9