Yeah, we’re finally chasing the Holy (native) Grail...
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James Balamuta
@coatless
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omnipresent explorer of the unknown, fashionably caffeinated informatics phd, amorous cavalier. design, build, analyze. #rstats on #macos + #webr and #python with #pyodide
If you've ever wished you could grep through R-help, find that one Brian Ripley reply about CRAN policy from 2009, or just see who the top contributors to R-SIG-Finance were... now you can.
Blog post with all the details: https://blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/posts/r-mailing-list-archives/
Want to do your own analysis? The full archive is available as Apache Parquet files, updated nightly via GitHub Actions.
One-liner to load any list in R or Python. No cloning required.
Every message is parsed, threaded, and indexed. You can browse threads, see who replied to whom, and actually follow conversations that shaped the language.
Here's a recent R-SIG-Mac thread about macOS 26:
https://r-mailing-lists.thecoatlessprofessor.com/lists/r-sig-mac/msg/msg-0b1a4d0c59cf/
29 years of #rstats community knowledge was sitting in hard-to-search pipermail archives. So I built a more modern home for it.
Introducing the R Mailing List Archives: 631,000+ messages from 32 lists, fully searchable and available as open data.
Full docs, getting started guide, and feature walkthroughs:
https://webroid.caffeinatedmath.com
More of an R2-iOS unit? There's webRios for the Apple side of the galaxy:
This IS the droid you're looking for.
webRoid v1.0.0: a nearly full-featured R environment running natively on your Android phone or tablet.
Console, editor, plots, packages, 9 themes:no server, no cloud, no Jedi mind tricks. Just R on your device.
Tested extensively on emulators. Your actual device? The Force is strong, but no promises.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.webroid.app
The R Foundation 
We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @HeathrTurnr has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways. #Rstats
Co-initiator of @R_Contributors and co-founder of @RLadiesGlobal in 2016, Heather has been an R Foundation board member, member of the RF Conference committee, and involved in many useR! conferences @useR_conf
Posit finally adds AI to #RStudio after somehow sleeping through every alarm, and what lured them to the dark side wasn’t cookies. It was a $20/mo rate-limited ‘frontier-grade model’ that’s just Claude in a trench coat you can’t even bring your own key for. #rstats
