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rOpenSci Dev Guide 0.9.0: Multingual Now! And Better
rOpenSci Software Peer Review’s guidance is gathered in an online book that keeps improving! This blog post summarises what’s new in our Dev Guide 0.9.0, with all changes listed in the changelog. Now available in Spanish! Our guide is now bilingual (English and Spanish), thanks to work by Yanina Bellini Saibene, Elio Campitelli and Pao Corrale...
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Marketing Ideas For Your Package
Now that you have created your package, presenting it to the world is a crucial step to gain visibility and attract users. Marketing your package effectively contributes to reaching the people your package can support, finding users to assist you in maintaining and improving your package and allowing you to learn about how people use it. In this bl...
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rOpenSci Code of Conduct Annual Review
Our community is our best asset. It’s so important to us, it’s in our mission statement. We recognize that communities are not inclusive by default; they require deliberate attention, including an enforceable Code of Conduct. rOpenSci is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, welcoming, and harassment-free experience for everyone. We welcome...
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Help make qualtRics better! Code contributions wanted
The package qualtRics maintained by Julia Silge together with Joseph O’Brien provides functions to access survey results directly into R using the Qualtrics API. Qualtrics is an online survey and data collection software platform. Help test or improve qualtRics! Are you a heavy user of the Qualtrics survey tooling in general, and of the qualtRic...
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Help users and developers of targets by answering questions!
The package targets maintained by Will Landau, and its companion packages, are pipeline tools, that coordinate the pieces of computationally demanding analysis projects. Help sustain targets discussion forums! Are you a routined user of the targets package and of more targetopia packages? How about helping answer users questions on the GitHub disc...
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Help make assertr better! Come close issues
The package assertr maintained by Tony Fischetti, provides functionality to assert conditions that have to be met so that errors in data used in analysis pipelines can fail quickly. The provided functionality is similar to stopifnot() but more powerful, friendly, and easier for use in pipelines. Contributed to assertr! The assertr issue tracker ha...
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rOpenSci News Digest, February 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 2023 Code of Conduct Transparency Report Transparency reports are intended to help the community understand what kind of Code of Conduct incidents we receive reports a...
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Beautiful Code, Because We’re Worth It!
rOpenSci’s second cohort of champions was onboarded! Their training started with a session on code style, which we will summarize here in this post. Knowing more about code quality is relevant to all Champion projects, be it creating a new package, submitting a package to software review, or reviewing a package. This training session consisted of...
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Help make waywiser better! User requests wanted
The package waywiser maintained by Mike Mahoney provides ergonomic methods for assessing spatial models. Assessing predictive models of spatial data can be challenging, both because these models are typically built for extrapolating outside the original region represented by training data and due to potential spatially structured errors, with “ho...
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Introducing rOpenSci Champions – Cohort 2023-2024
The rOpenSci Champions Program starts this 2024 with a new cohort of Champions. We are pleased to introduce you to our Champions and their projects! Ezekiel Adebayo Ogundepo Ezekiel Adebayo Ogundepo – GBG Analytics Limited Hello, I’m Ezekiel, a data science professional deeply fascinated by the intersection of mathematics, statistics, and re...
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