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rOpenSci News Digest, November 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 Looking for Maintainers to Support First-Time Contributors Now open to non-rOpenSci package maintainers! Making your first contribution to Open Source can be both empowering an...
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Give Thanks with the allcontributors Package
Thanksgiving is celebrated in many parts of the world. The USA, rOpenSci’s official location, celebrates Thanksgiving this Thursday, 28th November. Giving thanks to contributors is also an important part of open-source software development. Many open-source software projects use the allcontributors.org system to acknowledge contributions, which i...
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A comunidade R fala português
How to join this free online event with Pedro Faria, Beatriz Milz and Francesca Belem Lopes Palmeira. A comunidade R está realizando vários esforços de traduções comunitárias para o português de diferentes recursos: livros, pacotes e guias. Nesta chamada da comunidade, três líderes da comunidade de língua portuguesa apresentarão suas exp...
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rOpenSci News Digest, October 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 Fostering open science in Latin America: CZI awards funds for sustainable research software development Exciting News! The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has awarded rOpenSci a new...
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Looking for Maintainers to Support First-Time Contributors
Do you remember your first contribution to open source? Or are you still waiting to make it? Contributing to open source can be very rewarding, but also incredibly intimidating. When we asked about first time contributions on the rOpenSci Slack, people recalled the challenges and mistakes they made, but mostly how much they learned from and enjoyed...
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Fostering Open Science in Latin America: CZI Awards Funds for Sustainable Research Software Development
Exciting News! The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has awarded rOpenSci a new grant to foster sustainable scientific software as a pillar of Open Science in Latin America by building capacity and community. With this $340K grant, we’re planning to launch a Spanish-language version of our Champions Program, along with other new initiatives to make sust...
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Deposits In The Wild
For the better part of a year, I have been looking for an opportunity to use the rOpenSci package deposits in my role as the Data Librarian at EcoHealth Alliance. I had done some initial testing with Mark Padgham, the brilliant person who developed this package, but there weren’t any projects ready for me to put deposits through its paces. Enter ...
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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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