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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 8d

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....

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Jeroen Ooms @jeroenooms.bsky.social · 14d

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 ✨

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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 18d

📣 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

R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages · Community Call

Community Call about R-multiverse

ropensci.org

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · Sep 9

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...

DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised with malware

The DuckDB distribution for [Node.js](http://node.js/) on [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/) was compromised with malware (along with [several other packages](https://www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-debug-and-c...

github.com

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · Aug 20

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

Tidyverse developer day 2025

Join us in Atlanta for tidyverse developer day on September 19, 2025!

www.tidyverse.org

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 30

Making libcurl work in webassembly

https://jeroen.github.io/notes/webassembly-curl/

Making libcurl work in webassembly

We explain how to make libcurl based applications work in webassembly without changes by tunneling all traffic over a websocket proxy.

jeroen.github.io

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Jeroen Ooms @jeroenooms.bsky.social · Jul 29

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

Making Libcurl Work in WebAssembly | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com

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Jeroen Ooms @jeroenooms.bsky.social · Jun 20

Added a workaround now github.com/r-universe-o...

Ignore NEWS parsing errors in e.g. urltools · r-universe-org/build-source@e32da02

Otherwise toHTML() returns nothing at all.

github.com

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Jeroen Ooms @jeroenooms.bsky.social · Jun 20

It comes down to: tools::toHTML(tools:::.build_news_db('urltools'))

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Jeroen Ooms @jeroenooms.bsky.social · Jun 16

Indeed, and to get the plain text version add .txt to that endpoint

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Jeroen Ooms @jeroenooms.bsky.social · May 26

Is there some new AI spamming tool for recruiters ?

Jeroen Ooms @jeroenooms.bsky.social · May 9

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.

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Jeroen Ooms @jeroenooms.bsky.social · Apr 24

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 ?

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Jeroen Ooms @jeroenooms.bsky.social · Apr 16

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

R SVN build status

contributor.r-project.org

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Jeroen Ooms @jeroenooms.bsky.social · Mar 5

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

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Jeroen Ooms @jeroenooms.bsky.social · Mar 5

Do you have an estimate how much percent extra disk space we need to support ARM? I.e. what is the relative size of those 4.5k compiled packages from the total space?

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Maëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · Feb 28

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

ropensci.org/blog/2025/02...

Better documentation for R-universe!

We are excited to announce that R-Universe now has a documentation website thanks to Google Season of Docs!

ropensci.org

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Jeroen Ooms @jeroenooms.bsky.social · Feb 27

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

R packages by ropensci

ropensci.r-universe.dev

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Aymen @aymennasri.bsky.social · Feb 19

How come I just discovered R-universe!

This thing is amazing for search for #rstats material.

https://r-universe.dev

Welcome to R-universe!

r-universe.dev

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Jeroen Ooms @jeroenooms.bsky.social · Feb 19

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

curl: A Modern and Flexible Web Client for R

jeroen.r-universe.dev

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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · Jan 22

📝 [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 […]

Original post on hachyderm.io

hachyderm.io

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Jeroen Ooms @jeroenooms.bsky.social · Jan 17

Already enabled them in the base R CI :D contributor.r-project.org/svn-dashboard/

R SVN build status

contributor.r-project.org

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Jeroen Ooms @jeroenooms.bsky.social · Jan 6

Just from today:

AhrefsBot
AliyunSecBot
ClaudeBot
DotBot
GPTBot
PerplexityBot
PetalBot
SearchBot
SemrushBot
YandexBot
Amazonbot
Applebot
bingbot
bot
bots
claudebot
dotbot
Googlebot
gptbot
imgbotapp
joeytalbot
nanamikubota
nonsabotage
petalbot
robot
searchbot

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Jeroen Ooms @jeroenooms.bsky.social · Jan 5

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...

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Jeroen Ooms @jeroenooms.bsky.social · Dec 21

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...

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