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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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rOpenSci News Digest, July 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! We are pleased to open the call for the second cohort of Champions and Mentors for the rOpenSci Champions Program 🎉 ! ...
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Open Call for rOpenSci Champions Program Applications!
We are pleased to open the call for the second cohort of Champions and Mentors for the rOpenSci Champions Program 🎉 ! This program will continue to support our goal of identifying, recognizing, and rewarding passionate community members who help the community grow and improve. The Champions Program is part of a series of activities and projects ...
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Mentoring & training program for Scientific Open Source Champions
How to join this free online event with Beatriz Milz, Carolina Pradier and Victor Ordu. Champions programs are designed to identify, recognize, and reward emerging leaders within a community. The rOpenSci Champions Program is part of a series of activities and projects we are carrying out to ensure our research software serves everyone in our commu...
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A Journey through Arrow in R
How to join this free online event with Stephanie Hazlitt, Jonathan Keane and Nic Crane. Apache Arrow is a software development platform for building high performance applications that process and transport large data sets. It is designed to improve the performance of data analysis methods, and to increase the efficiency of moving data from one sys...
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