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Looking for Maintainers to Support First-Time Contributors
https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/10/22/first-time-contributions/
Published: October 22, 2024 00:00
Do you remember your first contribution to open source? Or are you still waiting to make it? Contributing to open source can be very rewarding, but also incredibly intimidating. When we asked about first time contributions on the rOpenSci Slack, people…
Fostering Open Science in Latin America: CZI Awards Funds for Sustainable Research Software Development
https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/10/10/czi-latam-grant/
Published: October 10, 2024 00:00
Read it in: Español. Exciting News! The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has awarded rOpenSci a new grant to foster sustainable scientific software as a pillar of Open Science in Latin America by building capacity and community. With this $340K grant, we’re…
rOpenSci News Digest, September 2024
https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/09/27/news-september-2024/
Published: September 27, 2024 00:00
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 Community call recording: Navigating the R ecosystem using R-universe Video and…
Deposits In The Wild
https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/09/17/deposits-in-the-wild/
Published: September 17, 2024 00:00
For the better part of a year, I have been looking for an opportunity to use the rOpenSci package deposits in my role as the Data Librarian at EcoHealth Alliance. I had done some initial testing with Mark Padgham, the brilliant person who developed this…
Labels For Technical Writing Projects
https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/09/12/labels-writing-projects/
Published: September 12, 2024 00:00
Over the past thirty years I have written five technical books, co-written three others, and edited a further six. Since 2007 they have all lived in GitHub repositories, as did the first versions of the Software Carpentry lessons that I helped to write. A…
Capturing Screenshots Programmatically With R
https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/09/10/script-screenshots/
Published: September 10, 2024 00:00
As part of our work documenting R-Universe, we’re adding screenshots of the interface to the documentation website. Taking screenshots manually could quickly become very cumbersome, especially as we expect they’ll need updating in future: we might want to…
Resources For Using R With Screen Readers
https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/09/05/screen-readers-tools/
Published: September 5, 2024 00:00
Read it in: Español.Read it in: Türkçe. R is a language and environment for statistical computing. There are several tools and approaches for interacting with R, but not all are accessible with screen readers. This guide provides an overview of the tools…
rOpenSci News Digest, August 2024
https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/08/30/news-august-2024/
Published: August 30, 2024 00:00
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 Community call: Navigating the R ecosystem using R-Universe! On Tuesday, 24 September…
My Experience With Long Term Maintenance Of An R Package
https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/08/20/my-experience-with-long-term-maintenance-of-an-r-package/
Published: August 20, 2024 00:00
R packages, like any software, require maintenance. Package maintenance includes: Fixing bugs when discovered. Adapting to updates in package dependencies. Providing some level of user and contributor support. When desired, refactoring code or adding new…
Navigating the R ecosystem using R-universe
https://ropensci.org/commcalls/nov2024-r-universe/
Published: August 13, 2024 00:00
How to join this free online event with Jeroen Ooms. R-Universe is rOpenSci’s platform for testing, building, distributing, and discovering R packages, lead by Jeroen Ooms. R-Universe provides no-setup continuous integration, compilation for all platforms…
Git Tricks for Working with Large Repositories
https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/08/06/git-tricks/
Published: August 6, 2024 00:00
Read it in: Español. Recently Yanina Bellini Saibene reminded us to update our Slack profile: Friendly reminder: Let’s increase the value of our rOpenSci Slack community. Please add details to your profile, e.g., your photo, your favorite social media…
rOpenSci News Digest, July 2024
https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/07/19/news-july-2024/
Published: July 19, 2024 00:00
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 Announcing New Software Peer Review Editors: Beatriz Milz and Margaret Siple We are…