Publications by rOpenSci - open tools for open science
drake’s improved high-performance computing power
The drake R package is not only a reproducible research solution, but also a serious high-performance computing engine. The Get Started page introduces drake, and this technical note draws from the guides on high-performance computing and timing. You can help! Some of these features are brand new, and others are newly refactored. The GitHub versi...
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taxize: seven years of taxonomy in R
taxize was seven years old this last Saturday! What is taxize? taxize is designed around making working with taxonomic names easier – abstracting away the details of what each of 20 or so taxonomic data sources require for a given use case. A samping of use cases covered in taxize (all of these across many different data sources): Taxonomic i...
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vcr: record and replay HTTP requests
R package test suites that include HTTP requests are dependent on an internet connection being up, the internet connection speed, changing behavior of the remote server, as well as changing response formats/data from a remote server. We ideally want to test functionality of our package relative to some known data that isn’t intermittently unava...
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Unconf18 projects 1: mchtoolbox, pkginspector, dataspice, rOpenSciEd, rOpenInterviews
After Stefanie’s recap of unconf18, this week the blog will feature brief summaries of projects developed at the event: each day 4 to 5 projects will be highlighted. In the following weeks, a handful of groups will share more thorough posts about their work. In the spirit of exploration and experimentation at rOpenSci unconferences, these proje...
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Exploring, experimenting, and building software and trust at rOpenSci’s unconf18
We held our 5th annual unconference in Seattle, May 21-22, 2018 at Microsoft’s Reactor space. Researchers, students, postdocs and faculty, R software users and developers, and open data enthusiasts from academia, industry, government, and non-profits came together for two days to hack on projects they dreamed up and for an opportunity to meet a...
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Unconf18 projects 2: middlechild, defender, ropsec, keybase
As part of our series summarizing all projects from this year’s unconf I’m excited to dive into all the security related offerings from this year. In the spirit of exploration and experimentation at rOpenSci unconferences, these projects are not necessarily finished products or in scope for rOpenSci packages. middlechild Summary: This packag...
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Unconf18 projects 3: jobstatus, motifator, QcodeR, opencv, trackmd
For day 3 of project recaps from this year’s unconf, here is an overview of the next five projects. Stay tuned for the last recap tomorrow. In the spirit of exploration and experimentation at rOpenSci unconferences, these projects are not necessarily finished products or in scope for rOpenSci packages. Let’s dive into today’s 5 projects in ...
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.rprofile: Julia Silge
Dr. Julia Silge [@juliasilge on Twitter] is a data scientist at Stack Overflow. We talked about why R brings Julia joy, her path to a career in data science and what it was like to co-write a book for O’Reilly Media. This interview occurred on February 3, 2018 at the RStudio Conference in San Diego. KO: What is your name, job title, and how lo...
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Unconf18 projects 4: umapr, greta, roomba, proxy-bias-vignette, http caching
For the fourth and last day of project recaps from this year’s unconf, here is an overview of the next five projects. In the spirit of exploration and experimentation at rOpenSci unconferences, these projects are not necessarily finished products or in scope for rOpenSci packages. umapr Summary: umapr wraps the Python implementation of UMAP to...
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The ssh Package: Secure Shell (SSH) Client for R
Have you ever needed to connect to a remote server over SSH to transfer files via SCP or to setup a secure tunnel, and wished you could do so from R itself? The new rOpenSci ssh package provides a native ssh client in R allows you to do that and even more, like running a command or script on the host while streaming stdout and stderr directly to ...
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