Publications by rOpenSci - open tools for open science
The Fun of Building Things and the Challenge of Learning – the rOpenSci OzUnconf 2019
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Dickens might have meant it figuratively, but in the case of the rOpenSci OzUnconf 2019, we mean it literally. Set to the backdrop of a national emergency that is still ongoing from 11-13 December, our participants came from across Australia as well as New Zealand, Japan, India and Indonesia. A...
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taxadb: A High-Performance Local Taxonomic Database Interface
Dealing with taxonomic inconsistencies within and across datasets is a fundamental challenge of ecology and evolutionary biology. Accounting for species synonyms, taxa splitting and unification is especially important as aggregation of data across time and different data sources becomes increasingly common. One potentially powerful approach for a...
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2 Months in 2 Minutes – rOpenSci News, February 2020
rOpenSci HQ On behalf of rOpenSci, thank you to everyone who has contributed their creativity, curiosity, smarts, and time in the last year. Read our Thank You, 2019. Software Peer Review 3 community-contributed packages passed software peer review. osfr – R Interface to OSF. Author: Aaron Wolen; Reviewers: Heidi Seibold, Carl Boettiger; Rea...
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rOpenSci’s Leadership in #rstats Culture
At their closing keynote at the 2020 RStudio Conference, Hilary Parker and Roger Peng mentioned that they hatched the idea for their excellent Not So Standard Deviations podcast following their reunion at the 2015 rOpenSci unconf, (“runconf15”). That statement went straight to my heart because it pin-pointed how I had been feeling throughout ...
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opentripplanner: Fast and Easy Multimodal Trip Planning in R with OpenTripPlanner
With services like Google Maps, finding the fastest route from A to B has become quick, cheap, and easy. Not just for driving but walking, cycling and public transport too. But in the field of transport studies, we often want not only a single route, but thousands or millions of routes. This is where we hit a problem for services such as Google o...
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Community Call – Maintaining an R Package
For this Community Call, we’re trying something different. We’ll start with a short talk by Julia Silge, then spend most of the time on Q & A with four panelists – Elin Waring, Erin Grand, Leonardo Collado-Torres, and Scott Chamberlain – moderated by Julia. Our panelists bring a wide range of perspectives so there’s something for everyo...
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Supercharge your GitHub Actions Experience with tic
“Continuous Integration” (CI) has become a standard for proper software development. Checking the integrity of software after changes have been made is essential to ensure its proper functionality. Also, CI helps catch problems introduced by dependencies early when executed on a regular basis (usually done via scheduled CRON runs). Multiple p...
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parzer: Parse Messy Geographic Coordinates
parzer is a new package for handling messy geographic coordinates. The first version is now on CRAN, with binaries coming soon hopefully (see note about installation below). The package recently completed rOpenSci review. parzer motivation The idea for this package started with a tweet from Noam Ross (https://twitter.com/noamross/status/107073336...
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10 Things We Learned in Creating the Blog Guide with bookdown
After soliciting, reviewing, and publishing over 100 blog posts and tech notes by rOpenSci community members, we have created the rOpenSci Blog Guide for Authors and Editors to address many frequently asked questions and frequently given suggestions. Technically, we structured the content as a bookdown gitbook. It was Stef’s first foray into th...
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rOpenSci Dev Guide 0.4.0: Updates
rOpenSci Software Peer Review’s guidance has been compiled in an online book for more than one year now. We’ve just released its fourth version. To find out what’s new in our dev guide 0.4.0, you can read the changelog, or this blog post for more digested information. Note that, as indicated in the README of the software review repo, in th...
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