Publications by rOpenSci - open tools for open science
rOpenSci Dev Guide 0.6.0: Updates
rOpenSci Software Peer Review’s guidance is gathered in an online book and keeps improving! To find out what’s new in our dev guide 0.6.0, you can read the changelog, or this blog post for more digested information. We have resumed activity after a break due to the COVID-19 crisis, but are being gentle with deadlines and timing, giving a lot...
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A first look at the R-universe build infrastructure
This post is part of a series of technotes about our new R development platform called r-universe. As the project evolves, we will post updates to document features and technical details. In this first article, we take a global look at the the core build system. 🔗 The R-universe build system The R-universe system is a complex effort, consist...
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rOpenSci Statistical Software Testing and Peer Review – Community Call Summary
A week ago we held a Community Call discussing rOpenSci Statistical Software Testing and Peer Review. This call included speakers Noam Ross, Mark Padgham, Anna Krystalli, Alex Hayes, and John Sakaluk. This post provides a ready reference and description of this community call, which introduced the system being developed for peer review of explic...
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Latest rOpenSci News Digest
Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! Some housekeeping first: We’ve been changing the infrastructure of our newsletter a bit so please update your RSS and JSON feeds to https://ropensci.org/tags/newsletter/index.xml and https://ropensci.org/tags/newsletter/index.json, respectively. You can read this post on our blog....
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Set up Your R Package to Get the Most out of Your Community
How to join this free online event with Maëlle Salmon, Hugo Gruson, Steffi LaZerte and Stefanie Butland. Details coming soon! Resources Topic discussion on GitHub, Read the thread that led to this Community Call ...
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rOpenSci’s R-universe Project
How to join this free online event with Jeroen Ooms and Karthik Ram. The R-universe platform is a new umbrella project under which rOpenSci experiments with new ideas for improving publication and discovery of research software in R. The system provides an array of services to users and developers of R packages, with integrated measuring and moni...
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Publishing and browsing articles on R-universe
This post is part of a series of technotes about R-universe, a new umbrella project by rOpenSci under which we experiment with various new ideas for improving publication and discovery of research software in R. As the project evolves, we will post updates to document features and technical details. For more information, visit the r-universe proj...
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rOpenSci News Digest, April 2021
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 Are you interested in volunteering as a package reviewer for rOpenSci? We have just updated our volunteering form to make it easier to match volunteers and packages. It ...
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Set Up Your Package to Foster a Community – Community Call Summary
Last Thursday we held a Community Call discussing how to set up a Package to Foster a Community. This call included speakers Maëlle Salmon, Hugo Gruson and Steffi LaZerte, and was moderated by Stefanie Butland. 🔗 Summarizing the community call Scientific software development – and with that R packages – is a community effort. While ther...
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What’s New in terrainr 0.4.0?
terrainr version 0.4.0 is now on CRAN! This version is a relatively minor update that shouldn’t impact most workflows, but makes some changes to improve the logic and consistency of the package. The rest of this post runs through the changes you can expect if you update.packages any time soon! 🔗 What’s a terrainr? terrainr is an R packag...
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