Gábor Csárdi

I think this is a duplicate of https://github.com/r-lib/actions/pull/597

@jennybc I agree that it is not natural, but maybe with some tools we can make it (more) natural. This is exactly what I wanted to discuss. A good R-based...

All good ideas. Quick comments: - I like dat very much, and of course we can have "plugins" (small R packages, really), that add various data sources, like DOIs. -...

@jread-usgs I was probably unclear about a lot of things. I didn't mean to say that all R packages are research. I agree that packages are abstractions, in a sense...

For every column, you can store arbitrary key-value metadata (string -> string), see at https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/blob/5a5c8948e60770f8a8356a8f5e616d5ae1079d4b/src/main/thrift/parquet.thrift#L809

> Hello @gaborcsardi Yes, thanks for the tip but it can't be exploited by a software such as dataviz, etl or dataviz. Why can't dataviz or etl software add the...

:+1: In general: tools for better package discovery: - package search (search for packages, search package code, search package docs, etc.) - package top lists: most downloads, most reverse deps,...

> What's the right way to declare that I want to use an older version of RcppTOML for R on Windows 3.6? You can create two conditional steps, one for...

Hopefully this worked. Please reopen if you still have problems.

Unfortunately this is case sensitive, so until we fix this you need to write: ```r pak::local_install_dev_deps(dependencies = c("Config/Needs/website")) ``` Btw. you probably also want the "regular" dependencies: ```r pak::local_install_dev_deps(dependencies =...