Mastodawn

I enjoyed it on Ubuntu for about a year on two devices and introduced it to my MA students in two courses ... but then I had issues with instability of the LTS Ubuntu and switched to Debian where the reality hit me that r2u is not available. I have read in the FAQ that it is not in the cards ... just wanted to thank you and say that would be great to have... if possible even in the future, as Debian is very stable and I guess many like me will continue using it

Dirk Eddelbuettel Mar 1

#r2u had its first 'three point five million packages delivered' month in February (outside that two-day Sep 2023 outlier) bringing the total to over 68 million #CRAN #Rstats packages shipped as #Ubuntu .deb binaries.

#r2u. Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick All Three.

Dirk Eddelbuettel Jan 20

#r2u PSA: I added a 'rustup' invocation to the build containers so (current) `cargo` and `rustc` are present. If your Rust-using #Rstats package is on CRAN, it will be in #r2u as a (completely dependency-resolved) .deb binary that installs in seconds.

#r2u. Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick All Three.

Dirk Eddelbuettel Jan 19

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eddelbuettel/115888844628033765

Something that never get's old: today's edition also updates `quarto` and `rstudio` (from my 'personal' PPA) along with 40+ CRAN packages for Ubuntu thanks to #r2u: Fast. Easy. Reliable. Binaries with full and complete dependencies.

Screenshot cannot be added here in quoted post but is at https://bsky.app/profile/eddelbuettel.com/post/3mcqg7qeyyk2v

Dirk Eddelbuettel Jan 13

Something that never gets old: running `wajig new` to see what `apt` get-able packages have been added since the previous `apt` run -- this time once more only #r2u packages bring #Rstats CRAN repo as fully-formed binaries with _all_ dependencies to Ubuntu.

Dirk Eddelbuettel Dec 22

Always nice to see someone put the pedal to the metal for #r2u: a quick 10x in use pulling over 60k #rstats CRAN binaries for Ubuntu in about an hour.

#r2u: Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick All Three.

John Blischak Nov 25

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eddelbuettel/115578457258207233

I love to see the ongoing improvements to an already impressive #RStats service. Thanks @eddelbuettel for all your amazing work on #r2u!

Dirk Eddelbuettel Nov 19

r^4 post #055: More Frequent r2u Updates
r2u builds fully at GitHub Actions, multiple runs per day
https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11/19#055_more_frequent_r2u
#rstats #r2u

Internal updates allowing for more frequent builds of CRAN binaries for Ubuntu

Dirk Eddelbuettel Nov 7

#r2u for #Rstats now also includes #BioConductor on arm64 and not only on standard amd64. Following the upgrade to #BioConductor 3.22 we added this hardware platform.

`zlibbioc` was removed so a few packages we have for amd64 could not be built. Should I backfill it (and them)?

Dirk Eddelbuettel Oct 31

#r2u now contains BioConductor 3.22 released yesterday for Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04 (for the 500-some packages we cover, details at the site). #Rstats 4.5.2 has been built, we will update the containers in a few days as well.

#r2u. Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick All Three.

https://eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u

CRAN as Ubuntu Binaries - r2u

Easy, fast, reliable -- pick all three!