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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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rOpenSci News Digest, January 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
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
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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