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rOpenSci Introduces Monthly Social Coworking and Office Hours
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be hosting monthly social coworking + office hours sessions via Zoom, starting September 7th! Coworking is a great way to be productive and reduce feelings of social isolation (especially important over the last year)! These sessions will give you the opportunity to Meet other package developers and rOpen...
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rOpenSci News Digest, August 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 🔗 Recordings of useR! 2021 Recordings of useR! 2021 are now available on the conference website. You can watch contributions by rOpenSci staff: Jeroen Ooms’ keyn...
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rOpenSci docs are now built 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 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 project ...
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How to Use System Commands in your R Script or Package
Have you ever found a command-line tool that’s perfect for getting your job done, and wanted to use it from an R script or package? E.g. some sort of scientific software providing a specific functionality made available though a command-line interface (CLI)? In this post, we have a look at a few options for writing such CLI wrappers in R. In pa...
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Creando Tu R-universe
This is a cross-post from Yanina Bellini Saibene’s blog, originally published July 17th 2021 Durante useR! 2021 Jeroen Ooms presentó el proyecto universo R en su keynote. Comentó sobre el proyecto, los casos de uso y repasó las instrucciones para crear tu propio universo-r. En este post the explico como crear el tuyo a partir de la experien...
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The Story Behind rspatialdata
As two postgrad students on summer vacation but with no travel plans (during this global pandemic of course), we took up an internship at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) last summer and ended up collaborating on a really cool project with Paula Moraga! Did we mention that we worked in Saudi Arabia, while living in Austr...
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rOpenSci News Digest, September 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 A first package was submitted to rOpenSci Statistical Software Peer Review, two months after its opening: the tsbox package by Christoph Sax. We are very excited, and th...
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Announcing New Software Peer Review Editors: Emily Riederer, Adam Sparks, and Jeff Hollister
We are excited to welcome Emily Riederer, Adam Sparks, and Jeff Hollister to our team of Associate Editors for rOpenSci Software Peer Review. They join Laura DeCicco, Julia Gustavsen, Anna Krystalli, Mauro Lepore, Karthik Ram, Noam Ross, Maëlle Salmon, and Melina Vidoni. rOpenSci has been running a rigorous and collegial software peer review sys...
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Generating and customizing badges in 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 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 project ...
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Expanding Software Peer Review: Statistical Package Standards at rOpenSci
How to join this free online event with Noam Ross, Rebecca Killick, Christoph Sax and Juliane Manitz. This is the second in a series of 1-hour Community Calls on our statistical software review project. We at rOpenSci have expanded the scope of our software peer review system to encompass explicitly statistical software. The first Community Call ...
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