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taxize: seven years of taxonomy in R

22.05.2018

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

24.05.2018

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

04.06.2018

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

04.06.2018

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

05.06.2018

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

06.06.2018

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

07.06.2018

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

08.06.2018

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

11.06.2018

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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Exploring European attitudes and behaviours using the European Social Survey

13.06.2018

Introduction I never thought that I’d be programming software in my career. I started using R a little over 2 years now and it’s been one of the most important decisions in my career. Secluded in a small academic office with no one to discuss/interact about my new hobby, I started searching the web for tutorials and packages. After getting to...

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