webR 0.4.2

New features

• Added support for directly mounting (optionally compressed) .tar archives as filesystem images. Archives must be pre-processed using the rwasm R package to append filesystem image metadata to .tar archive data.

Breaking changes

• When installing binary R packages, webR will now default to mounting the R package binary .tgz file as a filesystem image. If this fails (e.g. the .tgz has not been processed to add filesystem image metadata) webR will fall back to a traditional install by extracting the contents of the .tgz file.

Bug Fixes

• Mounting filesystem images using the WORKERFS filesystem type now works correctly under Node.js (#328).

New Contributors

• @luisDVA made their first contribution in #472
• @thomascwells made their first contribution in #473

Full Changelog: v0.4.1...v0.4.2