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rOpenSci News Digest, October 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 Community call about the statistical software review project A fantastic community call is coming up on Tuesday, 26 October 2021 18:00 UTC: Expanding Software Peer Review: St...
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Enhancing Software Peer Review with GitHub Automation
How to join this free online event with Arfon Smith, Karthik Ram, Maëlle Salmon and Noam Ross. Software peer-review involves coordinating and tracking many moving parts: software submissions, testing and diagnostics, assignment of editors and reviewers, and logging the progression of submissions through revisions and acceptance. On this call we ...
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How to Cite R and R Packages
I teach R to a lot of scientists, those that are new to science (i.e. students) as well as more established scientists, new to R. I find that after all their struggles of dealing with dates, or remembering where to put the comma, they’re so grateful to actual have an analysis, that they often forget or aren’t aware of the next steps. Many sci...
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rOpenSci Dev Guide 0.7.0: 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 0.7.0, you can read the changelog, or this blog post for more digested information. @ropensci-review-bot help: less TODOs, more simple commands! A big change brought in this release is the retirement of some of ...
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How I Test cffr on (about) 2,000 Packages using GitHub Actions and R-universe
When GitHub announced support for CITATION.cff files I though of creating a package that would assist R developers in this matter. I was already using codemetar for most of my packages, so I was familiar with the creation of these kind of metadata files. I borrowed some ideas from codemetar, although I decided to create most of my code from scrat...
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cffr: Create a CITATION.cff File for your R Package
A new R package, cffr, has been developed, peer-reviewed by rOpenSci and accepted by CRAN. This package has a single purpose: to create a valid CITATION.cff file using the metadata of any R package. CITATION.cff files and why they matter A Citation File Format (CFF) is a plain text file with human- and machine-readable citation information for s...
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RSS feeds of package updates 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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rOpenSci News Digest, November 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 Community call: @ropensci-review-bot help! Tuesday, 07 December 2021 17:00 UTC we’ll share how we are Enhancing Software Peer Review with GitHub Automation. Speakers Arfon ...
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Thank You to the rOpenSci Community, 2021
Can you think of an rOpenSci community member that you’d like to thank? A reviewer who helped you improve your package? Someone who answered your question? A community call speaker from whom you gained insight? Someone who encouraged you behind the scenes? Consider leaving them a note in the comments below expressing your gratitude. We often ...
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rOpenSci Announces $400k Award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to Empower Historically Excluded Groups as Community Leaders in Scientific Open Source Projects
We are thrilled to have been awarded new funding as part of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Open Science program’s education and capacity building strategy. This $400K grant will support a new project to enable more members of historically excluded groups to participate in, benefit from, and become leaders in the R, research software engineering...
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