R support in conda-forge

Earlier this month, Anaconda announced 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.

The @conda-forge/r team currently maintains 4.4K+ feedstocks 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.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to open an issue in the r feedstock or in our Zulip chat instance.