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How renv restores packages from r-universe for reproducibility or production

The latest version of renv now supports restoring packages that were installed from r-universe. In this post we explain how this works, and why it has to work this way.

rOpenSci News Digest, November 2021

Community call on Enhancing Software Peer Review with GitHub Automation, help wanted issues, new packages and package news

RSS feeds of package updates in r-universe

A major difference between r-universe and static repositories like CRAN and BioConductor is continuous deployment: packages in r-universe are continuously built in CI and immediately deployed to our package server. This package server stores binaries and metadata in a database, which enables us to dynamically query and expose all the package data through APIs, dashboards, feeds, etc. Based on some suggestions from twitter users, we have added support for RSS feeds of package updates

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