Last month I suddently learned that the R Core Team started a blog earlier this year. And of course, I was even more excited that the blog was based on blogdown. Given that the official R Project website had used <iframe> for nearly two decades, I was very delighted that they were finally embracing the newer world-wide web step by step.

Although blogs and mailing lists are both open to the public, I think blogs are more public. For developers, there are always difficult …