RXKCD

Get XKCD Comic from R

v2.0.1 · Apr 15, 2026 · GPL-2

Description

Visualize your favorite XKCD comic strip directly from R. Includes full-text search with BM25 ranking and semantic similarity search via local 'GloVe' embeddings, powered by a local 'DuckDB' cache.

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Flavor	Status	Time
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang	OK	26s
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc	OK	21.3s
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang	OK	37.9s
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc	OK	35.9s
r-devel-windows-x86_64	OK	44s
r-oldrel-macos-arm64	OK	11s
r-oldrel-macos-x86_64	OK	31s
r-oldrel-windows-x86_64	OK	53s
r-patched-linux-x86_64	OK	22s
r-release-linux-x86_64	OK
r-release-macos-arm64	OK	10s
r-release-macos-x86_64	OK	34s
r-release-windows-x86_64	OK	44s

Check History

OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 24, 2026

ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 17, 2026

ERROR r-release-linux-x86_64

package dependencies

Package required but not available: ‘duckdb’

See section ‘The DESCRIPTION file’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’
manual.

OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 15, 2026

ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 13, 2026

ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

package dependencies

Package required but not available: ‘duckdb’

See section ‘The DESCRIPTION file’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’
manual.

OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

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Version History

15 tracked

updated 2.0.1 ← 1.9.2 diff Apr 15, 2026

new 1.9.2 Mar 10, 2026

updated 1.9.2 ← 1.8-2 diff Feb 23, 2020

updated 1.8-2 ← 1.7-7 diff Mar 30, 2017

updated 1.7-7 ← 1.7-6 diff Dec 1, 2016

updated 1.7-6 ← 1.7-5 diff Sep 12, 2016

updated 1.7-5 ← 1.7-4 diff Dec 22, 2012

updated 1.7-4 ← 1.7-3 diff Aug 10, 2012

updated 1.7-3 ← 1.7-2 diff Jun 5, 2012

updated 1.7-2 ← 1.7-1 diff Apr 17, 2012

updated 1.7-1 ← 1.5 diff Dec 15, 2011

updated 1.5 ← 1.4 diff Oct 8, 2011

updated 1.4 ← 1.2 diff Aug 1, 2011

updated 1.2 ← 1.0 diff Jul 25, 2011

new 1.0 Jul 22, 2011