Read R data files from Julia

Is JuliaData/RData.jl beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to JuliaData/RData.jl to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

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63
Forks
17
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
9
Dominant language
Julia
License
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Last GitHub push
Oct 14, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 18, 2026
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How to contribute to JuliaData/RData.jl

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.

Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date

  • Magic File identifier "TZjf" not found error
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    JuliaData/RData.jl#101 ·

  • Feature request: loading SF geometry
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    JuliaData/RData.jl#99 ·

  • Feature request: read online data
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    JuliaData/RData.jl#95 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

  • Convert R's 32-bit integers to native integers
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    JuliaData/RData.jl#81 ·

  • `load` throws a warning since a change in R serialization format that came with v3.5/3.6
    Open
    enhancement up for grabs

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    JuliaData/RData.jl#78 · 1 comment ·

  • Add "unique_colnames" keyword option to load()
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    JuliaData/RData.jl#45 · 5 comments ·

  • Feature request: support for attributes
    Open
    enhancement up for grabs

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    JuliaData/RData.jl#30 · 8 comments ·

  • RDataException
    Open
    enhancement up for grabs

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    JuliaData/RData.jl#14 · 1 reaction ·

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