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Labels For Technical Writing Projects
Over the past thirty years I have written five technical books, co-written three others, and edited a further six. Since 2007 they have all lived in GitHub repositories, as did the first versions of the Software Carpentry lessons that I helped to write. A few months ago I wrote about the GitHub issue labels I use for writing projects like these. As...
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Capturing Screenshots Programmatically With R
As part of our work documenting R-Universe, we’re adding screenshots of the interface to the documentation website. Taking screenshots manually could quickly become very cumbersome, especially as we expect they’ll need updating in future: we might want to change the universes we feature, the interface might improve yet again and therefore look ...
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Resources For Using R With Screen Readers
R is a language and environment for statistical computing. There are several tools and approaches for interacting with R, but not all are accessible with screen readers. This guide provides an overview of the tools and techniques available to screen reader users across different operating systems, with practical tips and resources to help them navi...
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rOpenSci News Digest, August 2024
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 Community call: Navigating the R ecosystem using R-Universe! On Tuesday, 24 September 2024 16:00 UTC (no RSVP needed), join us to learn more about R-Universe and how you can us...
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My Experience With Long Term Maintenance Of An R Package
R packages, like any software, require maintenance. Package maintenance includes: Fixing bugs when discovered. Adapting to updates in package dependencies. Providing some level of user and contributor support. When desired, refactoring code or adding new functionality. Without maintenance efforts a package is at risk of losing its value. Yet, mai...
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Git Tricks for Working with Large Repositories
Recently Yanina Bellini Saibene reminded us to update our Slack profile: Friendly reminder: Let’s increase the value of our rOpenSci Slack community. Please add details to your profile, e.g., your photo, your favorite social media handle, what you do, your pronouns, and how to pronounce your name. After doing that I went on to updating my profi...
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rOpenSci News Digest, July 2024
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 Announcing New Software Peer Review Editors: Beatriz Milz and Margaret Siple We are excited to welcome Beatriz Milz and Margaret Siple to our team of Associate Editors for rOpe...
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Metrics, Impact and Community Management
On June 14 I was invited to present at the CZI Open Science 2024 event. I was asked to participate in “Case Study Session 3: Demonstrating Impact of Open Science” and to explore the challenges of using traditional academic metrics for measuring project impact with an emphasis on alternative approaches. I was very excited to share our experience...
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Multilingual Documentation in R Packages
We are happy to announce the brand-new R Consortium Multilingual Working Group. This Working Group came about after discussions during the R Project Sprint 2023 and will oversee the implementation of multilingual documentation support in R and organise community translation efforts. Our first project is the (experimental) rhelpi18n package, which a...
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Announcing New Software Peer Review Editors: Beatriz Milz and Margaret Siple
We are excited to welcome Beatriz Milz and Margaret Siple to our team of Associate Editors for rOpenSci Software Peer Review. They join Laura DeCicco, Julia Gustavsen, Anna Krystalli, Mauro Lepore, Noam Ross, Maëlle Salmon, Emily Riederer, Adam Sparks, and Jeff Hollister. rOpenSci has been running a rigorous and collegial software peer review syst...
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