Mastodawn

Yeah, we’re finally chasing the Holy (native) Grail...

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.

https://github.com/r-mailing-lists/data

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James Balamuta Mar 23

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/

James Balamuta Mar 23

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.

https://r-mailing-lists.thecoatlessprofessor.com/

James Balamuta Mar 15

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

#rstats #webR #Android #WebAssembly

James Balamuta Mar 7

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

James Balamuta Feb 28

Small update on the python-on-iOS front: the unnamed notebook app now has a name -- Pyodios -- and a new trick.

Swap between a local Pyodide kernel and a remote Jupyter backend mid-session. Want offline? Stay local. Want GPU? Call home. No drama either way.

#python #iosdev #wasm #pyodide #jupyter

James Balamuta Feb 26

webRios started as "what if #rstats just worked on your iPhone or iPad" and now it has a whole documentation site. Feels like the app grew up a little today.

https://webrios.caffeinatedmath.com

#webr #ios #webassembly