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James Balamuta @coatless@mastodon.social · Jun 26, 2026

Replying to @zeileis@fosstodon.org

@zeileis@fosstodon.org Celebrated with a loving photograph of Excel but perfect tribute to where most of us started before we found their work...

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James Balamuta @coatless@mastodon.social · May 04, 2026

RE: @coatless@mastodon.social

A month later, here is what happened to this work.

https://blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/posts/extraction-with-a-footnote/

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James Balamuta @coatless@mastodon.social · Apr 13, 2026

Replying to @hrbrmstr@mastodon.social

@hrbrmstr @censys congratulations Bob!

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James Balamuta @coatless@mastodon.social · Apr 12, 2026

RIP Tomáš Kalibera. #rstats lost a huge contributor today. Condolences to his young family.

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2026-April/481617.html

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James Balamuta @coatless@mastodon.social · Apr 08, 2026

RE: @coatless@mastodon.social

Wrote up the details on how this works under the hood, including how R discovers Rtools through RTOOLS{VER}_HOME and how to point any R installation at a custom Rtools location.

Blog post: https://blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/posts/portable-r-windows-with-rtools/

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James Balamuta @coatless@mastodon.social · Apr 08, 2026

Replying to @druedin@sciences.social

@druedin@sciences.social On macOS there's no single "Rtools" equivalent we can bundle. C/C++ compilers come from Xcode CLT (large, can't redistribute, and OS-specific) and gfortran is a separate install (but we can bundle it). The good news: most CRAN packages install as binaries with zero toolchain needed. Source compilation works too if you have Xcode CLT installed & gfortran as we have a redirect to the portable library/ directory. What packages/workflows are causing headaches?

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James Balamuta @coatless@mastodon.social · Apr 07, 2026

Portable #Rstats for #Windows now ships with Rtools built in. Extract, compile from source, done. No installers, no PATH wrangling, no registry. Just R + gcc in a folder. So, running:

install.packages("Rcpp", type="source")

Now, works out of the box!

Details: https://github.com/portable-r/portable-r-windows

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James Balamuta @coatless@mastodon.social · Mar 30, 2026

Replying to @Lluis_Revilla@fosstodon.org

@Lluis_Revilla@fosstodon.org 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.

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James Balamuta @coatless@mastodon.social · Mar 30, 2026

Replying to @fdroidorg@floss.social

@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!

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James Balamuta @coatless@mastodon.social · Mar 23, 2026

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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/

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James Balamuta @coatless@mastodon.social · Mar 23, 2026

Replying to @coatless@mastodon.social

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 @coatless@mastodon.social · Mar 23, 2026

Replying to @coatless@mastodon.social

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/

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James Balamuta @coatless@mastodon.social · Mar 23, 2026

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/

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James Balamuta @coatless@mastodon.social · Mar 15, 2026

Replying to @druedin@sciences.social

@druedin great to hear! Sorry about the earlier hiccup.

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James Balamuta @coatless@mastodon.social · Mar 15, 2026

Replying to @ryanmcshane@fosstodon.org

@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.)

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James Balamuta @coatless@mastodon.social · Mar 15, 2026

Replying to @druedin@sciences.social

@druedin @fdroidorg Please try v1.0.1. This should be rolled out in full now from the Play Store. Again, my apologies for the initial trouble.

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James Balamuta @coatless@mastodon.social · Mar 15, 2026

Replying to @ryanmcshane@fosstodon.org

@ryanmcshane Please try v1.0.1. This should be rolled out in full now from the Play Store. Again, my apologies for the initial trouble.

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James Balamuta @coatless@mastodon.social · Mar 15, 2026

Replying to @ryanmcshane@fosstodon.org

@ryanmcshane thanks, fix coming soon. Just uploaded one into the Google Play Store, c.f. https://mastodon.social/@coatless/116235016905508527

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James Balamuta @coatless@mastodon.social · Mar 15, 2026

Replying to @coatless@mastodon.social

@druedin @fdroidorg Quick video showing the webRoid app working within the emulator.

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James Balamuta @coatless@mastodon.social · Mar 15, 2026

Replying to @druedin@sciences.social

@druedin @fdroidorg hi, thanks! So, just a slight hiccup between emulator and physical device that I'm getting a patch through to the Google Play Store soon (tm). fdroid is new to me. I'm mainly an R2-iOSer ;)

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James Balamuta @coatless@mastodon.social · Mar 15, 2026

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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: https://webrios.caffeinatedmath.com

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James Balamuta @coatless@mastodon.social · Mar 15, 2026

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

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James Balamuta @coatless@mastodon.social · Jan 27, 2026

webRios is live. #rstats on your iPhone and iPad.

I showed native R compilation on #iOS last week. Shipping it is another story (thanks, GPL). This version uses #webR 's #WebAssembly build instead. Different tradeoffs, but this one clears App Review.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/webrios/id6758071087