Dirk Eddelbuettel

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Have you looked at [drat](http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/drat.html) ? One view is that we don't actually have to reinvent anything but rather create more repositories.

I am not aware that aware that anybody ever has tried _"hundreds of repos"_ but do agree that scaling to that size would be an issue. I foresee [drat](http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/drat.html) as...

@viking : Yes, it underlies [R Hub](https://builder.r-hub.io/) and is used. But I tend to loose myself among the different repos that @gaborcsardi has and cannot immediately point you to one.

> Will it be a CRAN replacement eventually That was never planned. It is independent of CRAN.

FWIW I sort-of did it "rolling" in all my repos. It is a bit of a mixed bag: I have a few where I have set C++14 (because of Boost...

Setting ARMA_64BIT_WORD turns ints into long long which cannot map (as easily) back to R. Packages using integer vectors in Armadillo (ie arma::ivec) then have issues. A reverse-dependency check revealed...

Nice idea re the poke for permissions file and continue aggregation while present. I like that. Pinging @elijah who had poked around GitHub as well. Also as a footnote to...

Very nice stuff, @elijah. I also lean towards using GitHub "because its there" and nobody needs to foot any bills. Spreading the effort wide is something I also think is...

Hm. I am not sure we would want to live within a WordPress environment. Otherwise the review and curation idea is pretty close to one possible approach I entertained. But...