Dirk Eddelbuettel

(Re the off-topic Travis tangent: I see. And per @craigcitro, that is coming. But no matter what the base image, when you want to add _anything_ it is faster to...

@sjackman: Every approach to this problem I am aware of does a local mapping. What one distribution calls `libpostgresql-dev` is `libpg-dev` somewhere, `pg$VERSION-dev` somewhere else and so on. So limited...

Nothing wrong with homebrew, and I appreciate all the work you are doing there. But I happen to not be motivated by that use case. I am admin of my...

@sjackman: Please define "system library". I would agree on "up to the user" but not on "native package manager" as not all OSs have one worth its salt. See "R...

1) "system" commonly refers to the OS, so to me a "system library" is libc. 2) The term I would use is "external library" to stress that it is not...

Seconded. A few well-documented example would go a long way. I have seen in a package or two by @TimTaylor what is possible and it would be lovely to see...

Confirmed under 4.5.0 -- thanks so much for raising this. I should have a fix for this in a few days, maybe sooner.

Oddly while debugging I also found that `anytime::anytime(integer())` now goes haywire. I think this is related with R itself being less lenient now, and what I was running may have...

The repo now has a simple two-line commit that explicitly tests for the case because R is now less tolerant of what we passed through beforehand. I will at least...

As you are on Windows, you can wait for R-universe to build a binary. I have not yet increated the version but will do so too so you should have...