Publications by rOpenSci - open tools for open science
tinkr: editing Markdown documents using XML tools
Remember our recent post showing that one can wrangle Markdown files programmatically without regex? That tech note showed how to convert Markdown bodies to XML in order to extract information from them. Now, this post goes one step further and presents tinkr, a package for converting .md and .Rmd files to XML, editing them, and… writing them b...
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outcomerate: Transparent Communication of Quality in Social Surveys
Background Surveys are ubiquitous in the social sciences, and the best of them are meticulously planned out. Statisticians often decide on a sample size based on a theoretical design, and then proceed to inflate this number to account for “sample losses”. This ensures that the desired sample size is achieved, even in the presence of non-respo...
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Community Call – Code Review in the Lab, or … How do you review code that accompanies a research project?
Do you have code that accompanies a research project or manuscript? How do you review and archive that code before you submit a paper? Our next Community Call will present different perspectives on this hot topic, with plenty of time for Q&A. What’s the culture of the group around feedback and code collaboration? What are the use cases? What a...
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The av Package: Production Quality Video in R
At rOpenSci we are developing on a suite of packages that expose powerful graphics and imaging libraries in R. Our latest addition is av – a new package for working with audio/video based on the FFmpeg AV libraries. This ambitious new project will become the video counterpart of the magick package which we use for working with images. install.p...
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Distinguish yourself in CRAN person() with ORCID
Proper identification of individuals is crucial for acknowledging and studying their scientific work, be it journal articles or pieces of software. In this tech note, one year after CRAN started supporting ORCIDs, we shall explain why and how to use unique author identifiers in DESCRIPTION files. Why use ORCIDs on CRAN? When analyzing the authors...
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Parsing Metadata with R – A Package Story
Every R package has its story. Some packages are written by experts, some by novices. Some are developed quickly, others were long in the making. This is the story of jstor, a package which I developed during my time as a student of sociology, working in a research project on the scientific elite within sociology. Writing the package has taught m...
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Code Review in the Lab, or … How do you review code that accompanies a research project or paper?
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pubchunks: extract parts of scholarly XML articles
pubchunks is a package grown out of the fulltext package. fulltext provides a single interface to many sources of full text scholarly articles. As part of the user flow in fulltext there is an extraction step where fulltext::chunks() pulls parts of articles out of XML format article files. As part of making fulltext more maintainable and focused ...
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Community Call – Working with images in R
rOpenSci’s software engineer / postdoc Jeroen Ooms will explain what images are, under the hood, and showcase several rOpenSci packages that form a modern toolkit for working with images in R, including opencv, av, tesseract, magick and pdftools. ???? Thursday, November 15, 2018, 10-11AM PST; 7-8PM CET (find your timezone) ☎️ Find all detai...
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Sharing the Recipe for rOpenSci’s Unconf Ice Breaker
While many people groan at the thought of participating in a group ice breaker activity, we’ve gotten consistent feedback from people who have been to recent rOpenSci unconferences. Best ice breaker ever! We’ve had lots of requests for a detailed description of how we do it. This post shares our recipe, including a script you can adapt, a r...
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