Dirk Eddelbuettel

1) My examples were on purpose simple and added the install step in the .R file. With [r2u](https://eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u/) even `install.packages("tidyverse")` is done in eighteen seconds or so (!!) as it...

I hear you, but recall that @grantmcdermott and I placed this in the context of `r2u` as a Rocker container. The basic Dockerfile can here be a two-liner with the...

Interesting. I wondered about that too. Then again my (test) ones got deleted quickly and I still seem to be in good standing with my github 'pro' account (and I...

Ah yes, I had looked into this pricing info too. It is not too dissimilar from RStudio Cloud or Google Colab: some hours free, eventually you may. We used to...

Yeah I am aware of some 'in theory ...' options, but I am eagerly awaiting some 'in practice' validation. @grantmcdermott Any pointers?

Also saw another R user have a (different) .devcontainer setup (some "R Data Science Environment" approach for R and also Jupyter) in a repo, tried that and _of course_ it...

No only in the context that 'other approaches exist, I have a sample of size one showing they fail'. We do better work, generally. Now, can we best ourselves and...

@rcurrie Thanks for posting cpu details! With these pages at Wikipedia ([Intel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Xeon_processors_(Nehalem-based)#ark53676), [AMD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Opteron_processors)) I see that these are in fact old: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v3 -- Sep 2014 Intel(R)...

:disappointed: I guess this got you tossed off CRAN now. Let me know if I can help but it looks like you know what to do.

I tend to update BH once a year in December, hitting one out of every three releases. If you need a submodule sooner I suggest a local copy in your...