Publications by rOpenSci - open tools for open science
Introducing the new rOpenSci docs server
As part of our continuous effort to improve rOpenSci infrastructure, we are rolling out a new service to automatically build and host documentation for all rOpenSci packages. The webpages are generated using the popular pkgdown system with our rOpenSci template, and get automatically published on https://docs.ropensci.org/. Some examples: https...
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Taking over maintenance of a software package
Software is maintained by people. While software can in theory live on indefinitely, to do so requires people. People change jobs, move locations, retire, and unfortunately die sometimes. When a software maintainer can no longer maintain a package, what happens to the software? Because of the fragility of people in software, in an ideal world a p...
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Community Call – Involving Multilingual Communities
rOpenSci’s community is increasingly international and multilingual. While we have operated primarily in English, we now receive submissions of packages from authors whose primary language is not. As we expand our community in this way, we want to learn from the experience of other organizations. How can we manage our peer-review process and op...
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2 Months in 2 Minutes – rOpenSci News, June 2019
rOpenSci HQ ?????? ?️ Join our next Community Call on Involving Multilingual Communities June 28th. Video of our Community Call on Security for R is up, with a long list of resources. Our Community Manager, Stefanie Butland, spoke at R-Ladies Seattle and Fred Hutch about rOpenSci, Learning R, and Building Community May 22nd. Software P...
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Chat with rOpenSci Contributors at useR!2019
Three members of the rOpenSci team – Scott Chamberlain, Jenny Bryan, and Rich FitzJohn – as well as many community members will give talks at useR!2019. Many other package authors, maintainers, reviewers and unconf participants will be there too. Don’t hesitate to ask them about rOpenSci packages, software peer review, community, or just sa...
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Community Call – Reproducible Research with R
Our 1-hour Call on Reproducible Research with R will include three speakers and 20 minutes for Q & A. Ben Marwick will introduce you to a research compendium, which accompanies, enhances, or is a scientific publication providing data, code, and documentation for reproducing a scientific workflow. From Karthik Ram you will learn about holepunch, a...
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rOpenSci Announces $678K Award from the Sloan Foundation to Expand Software Peer Review
We’re delighted to announce that we have received new funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The $678K grant, awarded through the Foundation’s Data & Computational Research program, will be used to expand our efforts in software peer review. Software peer review has become a core part of rOpenSci, helping improve scientific software qua...
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Aggregating spatial data with the grainchanger package
The grainchanger package provides functionality for data aggregation to a coarser resolution via moving-window or direct methods. Why do we need new methods for data aggregation? As landscape ecologists and macroecologists, we often need to aggregate data in order to harmonise datasets. In doing so, we often lose a lot of information about the sp...
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rOpenSci Hiring for New Position in Statistical Software Testing and Peer Review
Are you passionate about statistical methods and software? If so we would love for you to join our team to dig deep into the world of statistical software packages. You’ll develop standards for evaluating and reviewing statistical tools, publish, and work closely with an international team of experts to set up a new software review system. We a...
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Community Call – Reproducible Workflows at Scale with drake
Ambitious workflows in R, such as machine learning analyses, can be difficult to manage. A single round of computation can take several hours to complete, and routine updates to the code and data tend to invalidate hard-earned results. You can enhance the maintainability, hygiene, speed, scale, and reproducibility of such projects with the drake ...
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