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rOpenSci News Digest, January 2024

24.01.2024

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 R-Universe The R-Universe now builds MacOS ARM64 binaries for use on Apple Silicon (aka M1/M2/M3) systems! Find out more in the related tech note. Coworking Read all about cow...

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How to Update a Translation with Babeldown

15.01.2024

As part of rOpenSci’s multilingual publishing project1, we have been developing the babeldown R package, for translating Markdown-based content using the DeepL API. In a previous tech note we demonstrated the use of babeldown for translating a blog post in a workflow supported by Git. Here we use babeldown for translating living documents, such a...

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R-universe now builds MacOS ARM64 binaries for use on Apple Silicon (aka M1/M2/M3) systems

13.01.2024

Abstract / TLDR R-universe now provides MacOS arm64 binaries for all R packages. This means that MacOS users on Apple Silicon hardware (aka M1/M2/M3) can install the very latest builds of any R package without the need for any compilation: install.packages('arrow', repos = c('https://apache.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org')) R-univer...

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rOpenSci News Digest, December 2023

21.12.2023

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 Reminder about giving season: consider donating to rOpenSci This Giving Season consider donating to rOpenSci to support our mission of empowering Open Science. Sustaining an op...

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Divide and Conquer: From polar To the Polarverse

04.12.2023

“I’m just a political scientist, standing in front of the R console asking it to help me finish my thesis.” It was 2015, a Political Science master’s student had to process data to hand in his thesis and decided to take the opportunity to learn how to use R. To the long and winding road of the academic requirement was added an extra degree...

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Introducing rOpenSci Mentors – Cohort 2023-2024

28.11.2023

One important aspect of rOpenSci’s mission is to build capacity and promote passionate community members who help the open science and open source software community grow and improve. The rOpenSci Champions Program is a unique opportunity for us to identify, recognize, and reward such individuals and support them in their work to improve their co...

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R-universe now builds WASM binaries for all R packages

16.11.2023

Abstract / TLDR R-universe now builds WASM binaries of all R packages for use in WebR applications (such as shinylive). For example to test the dev version of dplyr, you can open the WebR demo page and run: install.packages('dplyr', repos = c('https://tidyverse.r-universe.dev', 'https://repo.r-wasm.org')) As explained below, not all R packages are...

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rOpenSci News Digest, November 2023

23.11.2023

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 Giving season: consider donating to rOpenSci This Giving Season consider donating to rOpenSci to support our mission of empowering Open Science. Sustaining an open project with...

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Empowering Open Science: Donate to Support our Mission

20.11.2023

rOpenSci is a nonprofit organization that is funded entirely by grants and donations. These contributions enable us to keep our projects and infrastructure active and accessible to the community. Our projects are dedicated to establishing and upholding both technical and social infrastructure that supports open and reproducible science for all our ...

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rOpenSci News Digest, October 2023

19.10.2023

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 Help us translate our dev guide to Portuguese Since last year we started the translation and localization of our Spanish version of our comprehensive guide to software developm...

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