Yeah, we’re finally chasing the Holy (native) Grail...
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James Balamuta
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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
@Lluis_Revilla new issue ticket over at https://github.com/r-mailing-lists/data
The alias file is inside of the rmail-parser repo: https://github.com/r-mailing-lists/rmail-parser/blob/main/aliases.json
I'll fix that link.
@fdroidorg @druedin It's not open source as we're just wrapper the webR binary without direct modification/compilation. Think of it like an editor. It's unlikely to be open source in the near term. So, likely not a good candidate for fdroid. Sorry!
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.
@superboreen happy to hear!
@druedin great to hear! Sorry about the earlier hiccup.
@ryanmcshane thanks, noted. I'll include that in a v1.0.2 for Monday to collect other feedback (unless I have to patch again today.)