The Utrecht morning rush hour in the snow did not disappoint!

R-Universe by @rOpenSci is an extremely useful project. My latest R package, {pmtiles}, is not a good fit for CRAN as it bundles a pre-compiled Go library. With R-Universe, I was able to get installable cross-platform binaries built in hours! #rstats walkerke.r-universe....

Super excited for the new release of #rstats V8 which now also works in WebR by running js/wasm natively in web worker (thanks to @gws.phd). Will release some cool new packages soon to show the potential of WASM in R ✨

📣 Save the date!! Next Community Call: R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages 📦 🚀 📆 Monday, 29 September 2025 14:00 UTC with Will Landau 👉 Information + find your local time + How to join: https://ropensci.org/commcalls/r-multiverse/ #rstats

In the recent npm supply chain attack, DuckDB's Node.js and Wasm packages were compromised with malware. We have investigated the issue, deprecated the affected packages and released new versions. We have released a security advisory that contains our full postmortem: github.com/duckdb/duckd...

We still have spots available for tidyverse dev day on Sept 19: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07.... Please come along to contribute to the tidyverse and have a bunch of fun along the way! It's open to all, but is most convenient if you're coming to posit::conf or live near Atlanta #rstats

Making libcurl work in webassembly https://jeroen.github.io/notes/webassembly-curl/

We found a pretty neat way to make curl/httr2 work in WebR:

Is there some new AI spamming tool for recruiters ?

R-universe now also builds and checks binaries for ARM64-linux (both R-release and R-devel). To install Linux binaries, see our docs: docs.r-universe.dev/install/bina... Clicking on the check summary opens the results table (which is getting pretty large) and shows status+timings for each platform.

What is a good app on Android for "live caption" (auto translate) from spoken Spanish? I think google translate does only short recordings, not ongoing conversation ?

The R svn tracker now tests on both Intel and ARM64 on Linux, Mac, and Windows: contributor.r-project.org/svn-dashboard/

R-universe now displays the Conda version for R packages available via @conda-forge.org

New on the @ropensci.org blog: Better documentation for R-universe! ropensci.org/blog/2025/02...

Big performance improvements to contributor ranking in r-universe! Click on the bars to hop from one R package maintainers to the next (after 5 random clicks you always end up at HW) ropensci.r-universe.dev/contributors

How come I just discovered R-universe! This thing is amazing for search for #rstats material.

Another day, another release of the #rstats curl bindings on CRAN. This version should hopefully be the last update for a while (just like the one from a few weeks ago 😅) jeroen.r-universe.dev/curl

📝 [Blog Post] rOpenSci 2024 Highlights In this blog post the rOpenSci Team share the highlight of 2024 and what come next in 2025. 2024 was a year of incredible achievements: From a major revamp of R-Universe to the first bilingual software peer review and an inspiring Champions Program […]

Digging through some my webserver logs, astonished how much pointless internet traffic is generated these days by all the bots from random AI/infosec firms, randomly crawling and scraping the internet for something interesting to train on...

Was enjoying this rant, even more so after the shout-out to R in this honorable list of languages 😅 blog.frankmtaylor.com/2024/06/20/a...

r-universe.dev builds now store cran-like R CMD check error summary as "annotation" in the GHA runs. One can inspect such annotations even without logging into GitHub.

Excited and grateful that R-Universe is R Consortium's newest top-level project! This means sustained support for @rOpenSci.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy's platform for discovery and publishing of #rstats packages. Hats off to @jeroenooms.bsky.social for his leadership! ropensci.org/blog/2024/12...

R packages using Rust code automatically get tagged with the "rust" topic in r-universe so you can easily find them: r-universe.dev/search?q=top...

Don't forget to add your bsky link to your GitHub profile! R-universe #rstats maintainer profiles will start showing bsky icon (instead of twitter) when available from GitHub, e.g. jeroen.r-universe.dev

The R-universe search engine WebUI now lazy-loads the cards (upon scrolling), such that we can include more results while making the page still load instantly! Have a look, e.g. r-universe.dev/search?q=json

Slides on how R-universe uses @cloudflare.social to get fast global routing and caching: jeroen.github.io/technotes2024

R-universe has migrated to SHA256 content-addressable storage: all repository indexes list the SHA256 for every package, for example see: jeroen.r-universe.dev/src/contrib/.... These files are then available from cdn.r-universe.dev/{sha256}. The latter is immuable and can be cached indefinitely.

Did a bunch of cache optimisation for r-universe.dev over the past week. The web front-end pages load basically instantly now for, making it even more fun to browse around the R ecosystem 🚀 👩‍🚀