Publications by rOpenSci - open tools for open science
Introducing rOpenSci new Community Manager, Yanina Bellini Saibene
Entrada en español Hello! I am Yanina Bellini Saibene, your new community manager. I’m so excited to join rOpenSci in this role, and support such an important project in open science and in the R Community. When I saw the call for the position, I thought that my over 20 years of experience as a community builder, teacher, and researcher align...
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rOpenSci News Digest, June 2022
Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! rOpenSci HQ Introducing rOpenSci new Community Manager, Yanina Bellini Saibene We’re excited and extremely thrilled to announce Yanina Bellini Saibene is our new community manager! Yan...
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Evaluating GitHub Activity for Contributors
Say you have a bug report or feature request to make to a package. How can you use information on GitHub to manage your expectations (will there be a quick fix) and actions (should you go ahead and fork the repository)? In this post, we shall go over sources of information and explain how they can be used. In the end, there is no magical recipe, ...
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rOpenSci Code of Conduct Update
We are pleased to announce the release of Version 2.4 of our Code of Conduct with changes based on the feedback of our community. What’s new? Greater detail about acceptable and unacceptable behaviors in online settings. First translation of the text to Spanish. You can access now the last version full-text in English and Spanish. We welcome...
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Upgrading rtweet
In this post I will provide some examples of what has changed between rtweet 0.7.0 and rtweet 1.0.2. I hope both the changes and this guide will help all users. I highlight the most important and interesting changes in this blog post, and for a full list of changes you can consult it on the NEWS. Big breaking changes More consistent output This...
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rOpenSci News Digest, July 2022
Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! rOpenSci HQ rOpenSci Code of Conduct update We are pleased to announce the release of a new version of our Code of Conduct. Based on the feedback of our community we added greater detail...
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New Package yfR
Package yfR recently passed peer review at rOpenSci and is all about downloading stock price data from Yahoo Finance (YF). I wrote this package to solve a particular problem I had as a teacher: I needed a large volume of clean stock price data to use in my classes, either for explaining how financial markets work or for class exercises. While the...
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rOpenSci News Digest, March 2022
Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! rOpenSci HQ R-universe gets advanced search! The landing page for rOpenSci’s R-universe platform has gotten a makeover to facilitate easy searching through thousands of available R pac...
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Onboarding visdat, a tool for preliminary visualisation of whole dataframes
Take a look at the data This is a phrase that comes up when you first get a dataset. It is also ambiguous. Does it mean to do some exploratory modelling? Or make some histograms, scatterplots, and boxplots? Is it both? Starting down either path, you often encounter the non-trivial growing pains of working with a new dataset. The mix u...
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FedData – Getting assorted geospatial data into R
The package FedData has gone through software review and is now part of rOpenSci. FedData includes functions to automate downloading geospatial data available from several federated data sources (mainly sources maintained by the US Federal government). Currently, the package enables extraction from six datasets: The National Elevatio...
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