Blog: R support in conda-forge (#2666)

Co-authored-by: Isuru Fernando <[email protected]>

Author: jaimergp

blog/2025-11-22-r-support.md

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+---
+authors:
+  - r
+tags: [infrastructure]
+---
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+# R support in conda-forge
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+Earlier this month, Anaconda [announced](https://www.anaconda.com/blog/changes-to-anacondas-r-channel-support) that they are deprecating the `r` channel bundled in the `defaults` multichannel.
+This decision does _not_ impact R packages in conda-forge, which continue to be available without any changes.
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+The [`@conda-forge/r` team](https://github.com/conda-forge/r-feedstock/blob/7de3342693b3e1e98c2461d5385d8ebcce6b04db/recipe/meta.yaml#L30-L40) currently maintains [4.4K+ feedstocks](https://github.com/search?type=code&q=org%3Aconda-forge+%22-+conda-forge%2Fr%22+path%3Arecipe%2F) for the two latest minor R releases, and will continue to do so. At the time of writing, these are R 4.5 and R 4.4. Older versions are still available but won't receive any updates or rebuilds. When R 4.6 is released, 4.5 will still be maintained and 4.4 will stop receiving updates, and so on.
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+If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to open an issue in the [`r` feedstock](https://github.com/conda-forge/r-feedstock) or in [our Zulip chat instance](https://conda-forge.zulipchat.com/).

blog/authors.yml

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   title: The conda-forge core team
   url: https://github.com/orgs/conda-forge/teams/core
   image_url: https://github.com/conda-forge.png
+r:
+  name: conda-forge/r
+  title: The maintainers of the R ecosystem in conda-forge
+  url: https://github.com/orgs/conda-forge/teams/r
+  image_url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/t/2337964
 beckermr:
   name: Matthew R. Becker
   title: Member of conda-forge/core