Dirk Eddelbuettel

I think this is limitation in the x13 binary that is not as well documented as it could be. The earliest year for which this works for me is ```r...

Issue #309, filed only weeks ago, touched the same topic and refers to the reference manual stating that 780 is the maximum number of observations. (And oddly `length(window(births_sweden, start=1942))` is...

The 'globbing', i.e. the expansion of the wild card has to happen somewhere, and I do not think the `simdjson` library is set up for it. @lemire can correct me...

As an addendum: it is pretty easy to go from (highly regularized CRAN) sources to binaries, eg I more recently started again to make use of the auto-builder / PPA...

It would be a reboot / possible re-use of c2d4u -- as well as an extension as Michael never aimed for _all_ of CRAN. We have, thanks to you, a...

@cboettig: No, I did not have rewriting `install.packages()` in mind. In your and my parlance, it works at the `apt-get` level. Like the previous cran2deb projects from which c2d4u and...

@gaborcsardi Well: 1) gives you proper package management at the OS level covering the depends R does not know about 2) does not But looks like we're having a discussion....

Point taken on root access, but also consider that there is so much automated and scripted use these days where we consume .deb files anyway: Travis CI, Docker, ...

Disagree on Travis. I now build things I need more often via [my PPA](https://launchpad.net/~edd/+archive/ubuntu/misc/+packages) and I have the Travis times to prove that it is faster to install `r-cran-$foo` as...

@hadley Useful numbers, thanks. But one could also argue that 100% of R developers using Travis use Ubuntu 12.04 there along with a number of .deb package, just how 100%...