Dirk Eddelbuettel

@eddelbuettel.com

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

A fresh dozen sampled from the 102 new posts 'My man ...' by Kevin Kruse with all 560 (!!) assembled in an R package `myman`. > myman(sample(459:560, 12)) My man looks like the drug dealer in an ABC After School Special. My man looks like a malevolent breadstick. My man looks like his favorite comedy is The Zone of Interest. My man looks like a serial killer whose calling cards are Chick Tracts. My man looks like he’s tried to pick up chicks in a hearse. My man looks like a rejected mascot for Q-Tips. My man looks like a bloated corpse that Lenny Briscoe is cracking jokes over. My man looks like Pinhead broke up with the Cenobites and went solo. My man looks like an uncooked pork tenderloin. My man looks like the malfunctioning android that dooms the crew. My man looks like a German DJ who only remixes oompah music. My man looks like the let all the air out of Dave Bautista. >
Screenshot of taking a random sample of twelve 'My man ...' outbursts from the added one hundred and twelve of the total of now four hundred fifty eight posts. > library(myman) > myman( sample(346:458, 12) ) # a random dozen from the 112 new ones My man looks like Luke Warm Steve Austin. My man looks like Phil Collins guest starred on Peaky Blinders. My man looks like he would have gotten away with it, if not for those meddling kids. My man looks like Nazi prop comic. My man looks like he seasons his food with Raid. My man looks like he's furiously flipped over a Risk board. My man looks like Woody Harrelson had an aggressive round of chemo. My man looks like he was the mystery in an early X-Files episode. My man looks like the ringmaster for a rodent circus. My man looks like he’s briefing the Federal Network about the pending invasion of the bug planet. My man looks like he makes the dial-up modem noise when he reaches sexual climax. My man looks like he believes adding milk to coffee counts as miscegenation. >
Newly added `myman()` quotes from package `myman` based on Kevin Kruse's posts starting "My man ...".
Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/07/21#qlcal-r_0.1.3 describing release 0.1.3 of CRAN package qlcal.
R code and output for the number of days until Jan 20, 2029. > difftime(as.Date("2029-01-20"), Sys.Date()) Time difference of 915 days >
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. >
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.
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.
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.
Photo of three (all-wheat) "boules" resting after being baked.
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.
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 >
Activity chart at bsky with many new recent followers. Bots?
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.
xG chart of Canada - South Africa with added highlights.
Screenshot from futi app for Canada - South Africa game earlier today.
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" >
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.
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.
Screenshot from strava summarizing day two of the Tour de Shore 2026.
Screenshot from strava summarizing day one of the Tour de Shore 2026.
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 >
Bunch of happy bikers
Seven riders ready for day two of Tour de Shore
Selfie at Long Beach, IN, beach with Lake Michigan behind us.
Room full of tired cyclists watching some soccer.
Photo of a bar counter with a fresh draft, and the US soccer team on the screen behind
Group selfie at The Bean. About to Tour de Shore.
Screenshot of Rousseeuw Prize for Statististics 2026 citation.
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 >
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.
Screenshot of running 'CRAN Incoming Watcher' aka `ciw::ciw()` allowing for up to 200 hours.
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.
Meme image 'are we the baddies' depicting an actor portraying a second-world war soldier from the bad side.
Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/06/07#rquantlib_0.4.27 describing release 0.4.27 of CRAN package RQuantLib
Screenshot of a strava bike ride log connecting Pequod's Pizza, the IL/IN border marker and ... a cold one back home.
Dual chart showing cumulative #r2u downloads, now surpassing 80 million, and average weekly downloads on a log scale, also steadily climbing and averaging just under one million per week.
Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/05/29#rcpparmadillo_15.2.7-1 describing release 15.2.7-1 of CRAN package RcppArmadillo
Photo of costoral student in full doctoral gear right after the 'hooding', holding her two boys and being gratulated by an advisor and committee member.
Photo of two parents with a freshly hooded first-born in front of an old university building.
Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/05/21#nanotime_0.3.15 describing release 0.3.15 of CRAN package nanotime.
Screenshot with R code to determine the number of days between today and 20 Jan 2029, and its result: 976 days. > difftime(as.Date("2029-01-20"), Sys.Date()) Time difference of 976 days >
Screenshot of blog post at http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/04/03/ describing the upcoming Tour de Shore 2026 ride and my fundraising effort. Please go to https://www.pledgereg.com/536435 to donate
Long hair cat asleep on kitchen stool next to mine.
Picture of a quarter of a arugula-proscuitto pizza (recipe link follows) and a paperplane drink (equal parts Whiskey, Aperol, Amaro, Lemon Juice). https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchen/arugula-prosciutto-pizza-recipe-1973868
Screenshot from RSS feed of CRANberries showing 68 removed packages.
Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/05/09#rcppspdlog_0.0.29 describing release 0.0.29 of CRAN package RcppSpdlog
Photo of a paper plane cocktail in a martini glass on a table
Photo of two loaves of bread from, respecitvely, a round and oval proofing basket. Both shot nice expansion from cuts made with a bread lame. Second loaf had baking time reduced by a minute for a more balanced crust.
Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/05/01#binb_0.0.8 describing release 0.0.8 of CRAN package binb
Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/04/26#rprotobuf_0.4.27 describing release 0.4.27 of CRAN package RProtoBuf
> library(data.table) data.table 1.18.2.1 using 16 threads (see ?getDTthreads). Latest news: r-datatable.com Attaching package: ‘data.table’ The following object is masked from ‘package:base’: %notin% >
Via https://muhammad-rahmatullah.medium.com/wtf-per-minute-an-actual-measurement-for-code-quality-780914bf9d4b
Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/04/23#dtts_0.1.4 describing release 0.1.4 of CRAN package dtts
Screenshot of simple shell script loop around `grep -c` and `sleep` displaying total downloads today in 15 minutes increments, with over 200k just after 10:00h.
R code computing the difference in days until Jan 20, 2029. > difftime(as.Date("2029-01-20"), Sys.Date()) Time difference of 1004 days >
Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/04/22#nanotime_0.3.14 describing release 0.3.14 of CRAN package nanotime
Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/04/21#rcpparmadillo_15.2.6-1 describing release 15.2.6-1 of CRAN package RcppArmadillo