Publications by rOpenSci - open tools for open science
rOpenSci News Digest, August 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 Community call: Navigating the R ecosystem using R-Universe! On Tuesday, 24 September 2024 16:00 UTC (no RSVP needed), join us to learn more about R-Universe and how you can us...
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My Experience With Long Term Maintenance Of An R Package
R packages, like any software, require maintenance. Package maintenance includes: Fixing bugs when discovered. Adapting to updates in package dependencies. Providing some level of user and contributor support. When desired, refactoring code or adding new functionality. Without maintenance efforts a package is at risk of losing its value. Yet, mai...
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Git Tricks for Working with Large Repositories
Recently Yanina Bellini Saibene reminded us to update our Slack profile: Friendly reminder: Let’s increase the value of our rOpenSci Slack community. Please add details to your profile, e.g., your photo, your favorite social media handle, what you do, your pronouns, and how to pronounce your name. After doing that I went on to updating my profi...
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rOpenSci News Digest, July 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 Announcing New Software Peer Review Editors: Beatriz Milz and Margaret Siple We are excited to welcome Beatriz Milz and Margaret Siple to our team of Associate Editors for rOpe...
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Metrics, Impact and Community Management
On June 14 I was invited to present at the CZI Open Science 2024 event. I was asked to participate in “Case Study Session 3: Demonstrating Impact of Open Science” and to explore the challenges of using traditional academic metrics for measuring project impact with an emphasis on alternative approaches. I was very excited to share our experience...
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Multilingual Documentation in R Packages
We are happy to announce the brand-new R Consortium Multilingual Working Group. This Working Group came about after discussions during the R Project Sprint 2023 and will oversee the implementation of multilingual documentation support in R and organise community translation efforts. Our first project is the (experimental) rhelpi18n package, which a...
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Announcing New Software Peer Review Editors: Beatriz Milz and Margaret Siple
We are excited to welcome Beatriz Milz and Margaret Siple to our team of Associate Editors for rOpenSci Software Peer Review. They join Laura DeCicco, Julia Gustavsen, Anna Krystalli, Mauro Lepore, Noam Ross, Maëlle Salmon, Emily Riederer, Adam Sparks, and Jeff Hollister. rOpenSci has been running a rigorous and collegial software peer review syst...
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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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