r-wasm/rwasm

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Build R packages for WebAssembly and create a CRAN-like repo for distribution.

Is r-wasm/rwasm beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to r-wasm/rwasm to say how often they are merged. 1 beginner-friendly issue is open now.

Stars: 88
Forks: 9
Open beginner issues: 1
Indexed issues: 22

Dominant language: R
License: No license data
Last GitHub push: Oct 13, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: No beginner labels indexed
PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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The cargo shim fails with "bad substitution" error on GitHub Actions
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 70/100

r-wasm/rwasm#65 · Opened Nov 2, 2026
Docker container throwing error when installing systemdependencies
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

r-wasm/rwasm#64 · Opened Sep 23, 2026
locfit fails to build in the v0.6.0 container: emscripten-only flags reach the host gcc
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

r-wasm/rwasm#62 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 5, 2026
`rwasm::add_pkg()` fails to resolve Bioconductor packages — `nrow(out) must equal 1`
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

r-wasm/rwasm#56 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 21, 2026
Package fails to build if a native package dependency is not of new enough version
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

r-wasm/rwasm#54 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 3, 2025
package buiding using `rwasm` fails at `Make`
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reprex

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

r-wasm/rwasm#48 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 18, 2024
`make_vfs_repo()` should skip filesystem images that already exist
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feature good first issue :heart:

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

r-wasm/rwasm#47 · Opened Oct 28, 2024
Use `cli` for errors and message reporting
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feature good first issue :heart:

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

r-wasm/rwasm#45 · Opened Oct 23, 2024
Unable to render quarto doc with shinylive app using custom Wasm CRAN
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bug documentation

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

r-wasm/rwasm#43 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 4, 2024
test: adding a test suite to the R package
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feature

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

r-wasm/rwasm#38 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 11, 2024
Trouble building xgboost; underlying folders needed for building
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feature

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

r-wasm/rwasm#37 · Opened Jul 5, 2024
rwasm::add_pkg() will rebuild & reinstall dependencies even if they already exist
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bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

r-wasm/rwasm#36 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 3, 2024
Support `Ncpu` option from `install.packages()`
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feature

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

r-wasm/rwasm#35 · Opened Jun 29, 2024
Development s2 version wasm builds are broken
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feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

r-wasm/rwasm#34 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 18, 2024
[Doc] how to force rebuild an R package from source
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bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

r-wasm/rwasm#29 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 4, 2024
[Doc] clarify distinction between rwasm::build() and rwasm::add_pkg()
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documentation

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

r-wasm/rwasm#25 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 3, 2024
Mounting filesystem images vignette unclear
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documentation

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

r-wasm/rwasm#24 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 3, 2024
The nloptr package fails to cross-compile on macOS
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bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

r-wasm/rwasm#31 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 2, 2024
32-bit and 64 bit Fortran runtime in wasm
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

r-wasm/rwasm#21 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 6, 2024
[Rust] set CC and CFLAGS envvars
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feature

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

r-wasm/rwasm#18 · 6 comments · Opened Jan 25, 2024
Use xz compression instead of gzip to further shrink tarballs?
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reprex

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

r-wasm/rwasm#2 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 21, 2023
text2vec (and rsparse) package
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package request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

r-wasm/rwasm#1 · Opened Sep 14, 2023

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