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Faster package installation/updating #40

Open waynelapierre opened 1 year ago

waynelapierre commented 1 year ago

I noticed that it takes around five minutes to install or update the duckdb package. As an increasing number of R packages need to be compiled to be installed/updated, I am curious if there is any plan to speed up the compilation process, e.g., via caching: https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2017/11/27/