Dear All,
There will be another R Dev Day after RSECon25, on Friday 12 Sep, Warwick
University, UK.
Travel funding is available - for participants from UK/Europe, this will cover
travel plus up to 2 nights accommodation and for participants from the Global
South this will cover travel plus up
Hi Colin,
I'm surprised this wasn't captured by the url checker on CRAN.
Are you suggesting a new check on package descriptions for the urls present?
In that case I guess it could be part of the standard R CMD check.
Lluís
On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 at 17:17, Colin Gillespie wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Just
Congratulations on figuring out how to extend the build of the Rtools
installer to add more programs there - it is always good to have a
confirmation such things are clear enough from the available
documentation and sources. You can see that e.g. QPDF is added this way,
but adding a toolchain r
Hello, Wenjie.
If you are specifically interested in Windows, Tomas Kalibera is the keeper of
Rtools for Windows and it has its own list at R-sig-windows which may provide
more focus.
Thank you,
Avi
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> On Apr 3, 2025, at 7:30 AM, Sun Wenjie wrote:
>
> Dear R-devel com
Dear R-devel community,
I'm exploring (experimentally) the integration of the Rust toolchain into
Rtools, to enable smoother development and shipping of Rust-based R packages
on Windows.
I've written a detailed blog post documenting the process, technical rationale
and what’s next:
https://medi
Comparing download times of base R and the curl package:
url <- 'https://jeroen.github.io/data/nycflights13.json'
tmp <- tempfile()
system.time(download.file(url, tmp, quiet = F)
system.time(curl::curl_download(url, tmp, quiet = F))
Because this is an uncompressed file, the gzipped downlo
