Publications by rOpenSci - open tools for open science
How to Translate a Hugo Blog Post with Babeldown
As part of our multilingual publishing project, and with funding from the R Consortium, we’ve worked on the R package babeldown for translating Markdown-based content using the DeepL API. In this tech note, we’ll show how you can use babeldown to translate a Hugo blog post! Motivation Translating a Markdown blog post from your R console is not...
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rOpenSci News Digest, September 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 WIP: WebAssembly support in R-universe! Thanks to some help from George Stagg, we added experimental support for building WebAssembly binary packages. This makes it possible to...
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Attract Contributors with ‘help wanted’ Issues
Maintaining a package can be a lonesome activity, which sometimes poses a problem if you prefer team work or if you encounter a very thorny-for-you problem. Beside belonging to a supportive community of maintainers (like rOpenSci 😉), for collaborative help and commiseration you can try to build a community of contributors around your package! In...
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Meeting the Stars of the R-Universe: The R-Universe Against Diseases.
A new post of our interview series “Meeting the stars of the R-universe”. We aim to introduce the teams and people behind the development of software and packages many of us use and which are available through the R-Universe. We want to highlight and explore different teams and projects around the world, the work they do, their processes and us...
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rOpenSci News Digest, August 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 Open Call for rOpenSci Champions Program Applications! Still open: our call for the second cohort of Champions and Mentors for the rOpenSci Champions Program 🎉 ! This 12-mon...
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rOpenSci Champions Pilot Year: Training Wrap-Up
Our first cohort of the rOpenSci Champions Program has now completed the first phase of their training. One of the goals of this program was to ensure that all participants gained new skills and understanding. We wanted to support Champions and Mentors, but also those who applied to the program but were not selected. Therefore we ensured that all g...
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Proyecto Multilingüe
How to join this free online event with Maëlle Salmon, Paola Corrales and Elio Campitelli. Como movimientos globales, el código abierto y la ciencia abierta se enfrentan a la exclusión lingüística, ya que la mayoría de los recursos están en inglés. Esto afecta a las personas que hacen ciencia y desarrollan software de investigación que tra...
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Multilingual Publishing
How to join this free online event with Paola Corrales, Elio Campitelli and Maëlle Salmon. As global movements, Open Source and Open Science face language-based exclusion as most resources are in English. This affects scientists and research software engineers working in R, particularly those who don’t have English as their first language. rOpen...
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My Life with the R-universe
Summary Installing a package that has just been released to CRAN is painful for many users on Mac and Windows because often the difference between a ‘binary’ and a ‘source’ version is not immediately clear and they end up trying to install the source version, which leads to errors and heartbreak. When I was designing The Carpentries Workben...
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New cran.dev shortlinks to package information and documentation
Introducing cran.dev shortlinks! On r-universe you can find package repositories from many different organizations and maintainers. But sometimes you just want to lookup a particular CRAN package, without knowing the developer. The new cran.dev shortlink service lets you navigate or link directly to the r-universe homepage and docs of any establish...
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