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Hi, we added another alternative installation method using the Posit Public Package Manager:
December 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
You can also try installing from r-universe:

install.packages("duckdb", repos = c("https://duckdb.r-universe.dev", "https://cloud.r-project.org"))

See r.duckdb.org for more details.
DBI Package for the DuckDB Database Management System
The DuckDB project is an embedded analytical data management system with support for the Structured Query Language (SQL). This package includes all of DuckDB and an R Database Interface (DBI) connecto...
r.duckdb.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Hi, you can make DuckDB's R builds parallel by creating the ~/.R/Makevars file and adding a line with the number of threads available, e.g.:

MAKEFLAGS = -j8

For more details, see the R / Parallelizing the Build documentation section: duckdb.org/docs/stable/...
R
This page contains instructions for building the R client library. Parallelizing the Build Problem: By default, R compiles packages using a single thread, which causes the build to be slow. Solution: ...
duckdb.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
🌊 DuckLake documentation: duckdb.github.io/duckdb-docs-...
duckdb.github.io
November 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM