Dirk Eddelbuettel

Sorry your misunderstand what `locate` does. It works when fed directories (standard system). I didn't mean to imply you could just call it on your cluster. My words should have...

What is your compiler? It is likely too old so maybe look into [devtoolset for centos](https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/devtoolset-8/) (there are different versions) or maybe try an OS that is not end-of-lifed and...

cmake is not the guilty party here though the build uses it. gcc/g++ version 7 is your problem. devtoolset maybe be your solution. The other, of course, is to rely...

Point taken. I just looked at this for a somewhat trivial application (bounds / ranges for plots, I can afford to rescan and/or be appromimative) but I do have the...

Thanks for that discussion, truly helpful at it has been decades since my last algorithms class and that Sedgewick copy is getting dusty too :) The mix/max heap for median...

Sorry for the long silence, I finally got some time to work on this and the [STL_mono_wedge](https://github.com/EvanBalster/STL_mono_wedge) variant you kindly link to came in handy. It took me longer than...

Not sure I understand the title. What is "V8.Next" ? The PR, if I read it correctly, fixes what gets included. Was that our hold-up? Would we get enough Boost...

Ack for "V8.Next". You can tell I don't follow upstream that closely. As for Boost we need to see. The `main()` of VW always relied on `program_options` and linking... I...

Where is the `rmarkdown` proposal? I looked but failed to find it.

A slighty roundabout way to get these binaries is ... via RStudio for your system/distro. I get both server and desktop, and most systems should at least get the desktop....