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rOpenSci News Digest, June 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 rOpenSci takes over maintenance of the {goodpractice} package The {goodpractice} package was started by Gábor Csárdi in 2016 to auto-magically provide advice on good practice...
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From scripts to package. Developing dendroNetwork and learning with rOpenSci
Developing dendroNetwork as a package was not a goal from the beginning, but looking back, I think that it should have been. I wish someone had suggested making a package to me much earlier. Why? Because of many things, but mostly: reproducibility and transparency. This enables others to also use the method and software. In addition, I really enjoy...
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rOpenSci News Digest, May 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 rOpenSci in the Research Organization Registry rOpenSci was added to the Research Organization Registry (ROR) in its latest release. The ROR is a global, community-led registry...
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rOpenSci News Digest, April 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 Coworking Read all about coworking! Join us for social coworking & office hours monthly on first Tuesdays! Hosted by Steffi LaZerte and various community hosts. Everyone welcom...
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R-Universe Documentation Gets a Boost from Google Season of Docs
We are excited to announce that R-Universe has been awarded a Google Season of Docs. R-Universe is rOpenSci’s platform for testing, building, distributing, and discovering R packages, led by Jeroen Ooms. It provides no-setup continuous integration, compilation for all platforms (including WebR!), accessible HTML R package manuals, a comprehensive...
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rOpenSci News Digest, March 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 Leadership changes at rOpenSci After 13 years at the helm of rOpenSci, our founding executive director Karthik Ram is stepping down. Noam Ross, rOpenSci’s current lead for pe...
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From the Founding Director: My Farewell to rOpenSci
Dear rOpenSci community, This is a bit of a bittersweet announcement… After nearly 13 years, it’s time for me to step down as the Executive Director of rOpenSci. In the summer of 2011 I co-founded rOpenSci alongside a group of dedicated colleagues. What began as a casual collaboration among open science enthusiasts quickly evolved into somethin...
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Hello from our New Executive Director!
I am pleased, excited, and humbled to announce that I am stepping into the role of Executive Director of rOpenSci starting April 1. First, let me give my gratitude to our outgoing Executive Director and friend Karthik Ram for his leadership and mentorship running rOpenSci the past decade. He’s been a steady hand and visionary that helped our comm...
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rOpenSci Champions Pilot Year: Projects Wrap-Up
Our first cohort of the rOpenSci Champions Program has now completed the second phase of the program by developing their project and carrying out outreach activities. In this article, we share each Champion’s project, their achievements and their outreach activities. Champions’ Projects In their applications Champions choose to develop a new p...
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An Example of the DRY/DAMP Principles for Package Tests
rOpenSci’s second cohort of Champions has been onboarded! Their training first started with a session on code style, was followed by three sessions on the basics of R package development, and ended with a session on advanced R package development, which consisted of a potpourri of tips with discussion, followed by time for applying these principl...
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