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rOpenSci News Digest, June 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 Meeting the stars of the R-universe: PEcAn, an Open Source Project to Take Care of the Planet Knowing our community’s stories helps us to learn about the people behind our so...
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rOpenSci Champions Program Teams: Meet Alican Cagri Gokcek and Elio Campitelli
We designed the rOpenSci Champions Program with a mentorship aspect. Mentoring plays a significant role in the growth and development of both mentors and mentees alike. In our program, each Champion has a mentor who accompanies them during their training and development of their project. In this series of blog posts, we introduce you to the ten tea...
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How do you measure the impact of a champions program?
This post can also be found on the CSCCE blog.” How do you measure the impact of a champions program? This was the central question of a working session at CZI’s Accelerating Open Science in Latin America workshop, convened by rOpenSci’s Community Manager Yani Bellini Saibene and attended by CSCCE’s Founder and Director, Lou Woodley. Measu...
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rOpenSci’s Communication Channels for Safe and Friendly Exchange
As we anticipated in November 2022 the changes implemented by Twitter have generated a less safe and friendly space for our community. That is why from June 2023, we will stop interacting on this platform. We will maintain the account in hopes that we can return when Twitter is once again a safe and supportive space, but in the meanwhile will focus...
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rOpenSci Champions Program Teams: Meet Cheryl Isabella Lim and Mauro Lepore
We designed the rOpenSci Champions Program with a mentorship aspect. Mentoring plays a significant role in the growth and development of both mentors and mentees alike. In our program, each Champion has a mentor who accompanies them during their training and development of their project. In this series of blog posts, we introduce you to the ten tea...
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Meeting the Stars of the R-Universe: PEcAn, an Open Source Project to Take Care of the Planet
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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Downloading snapshots and creating stable R packages repositories using r-universe
Downloading repository snapshots The new snapshot API lets you download a full copy of any CRAN-like repository on r-universe. You can use such a snapshot to mirror the entire CRAN-like repository on your own servers, or for example to build a stable, validated release of your package suite. The API endpoint is simply /api/snapshot and has several ...
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rOpenSci Champions Program Teams: Meet César and Marc
We designed the rOpenSci Champions Program with a mentorship aspect. Mentoring plays a significant role in the growth and development of both mentors and mentees alike. In our program, each Champion has a mentor who accompanies them during their training and development of their project. In this series of blog posts, we introduce you to the ten tea...
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rOpenSci News Digest, May 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 Statistical software review updates We are very happy to welcome Jouni Helske to the editorial team for statistical software review. Jouni jumped straight in to act as editor f...
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Scheduling Mastodon Posts in R with rtoot and GitHub Actions
A lot of what I do as rOpenSci’s community assistant is related to social media. I check for posts about rOpenSci packages, invite people to share usecases, advertise upcoming events, as well as promoting new packages which completed software peer review. Up until this past year most of this work was focused on Twitter and because we want to reac...
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