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Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. The rOpenSci community is supported by our Code of Conduct with a clear description of unacceptable behaviors, instructions on how to make a report, and information on how reports are handled. We, the Code of Conduct Committee, are responsible for receiving, investigating, deciding, enforcing and reporting on all reports of potential violations of our Code. We are committed to transparency with our community while upholding the privacy of people who experience or report incidents. In 2021, we did not receive any Code of Conduct incident reports. We acknowledge that a ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. This post is part of a series of technotes about r-universe, a new umbrella project by rOpenSci under which we experiment with various ideas for improving publication and discovery of research software in R. As the project evolves, we will post updates to document features and technical details. For more information, visit the r-universe project page. What is renv RStudio’s renv package is a powerful dependency management toolkit for R. It allows you to create a lockfile that records the exact versions of R packages used in a given project, ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. We are thrilled to have been awarded new funding as part of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Open Science program’s education and capacity building strategy. This $400K grant will support a new project to enable more members of historically excluded groups to participate in, benefit from, and become leaders in the R, research software engineering, and open source and open science communities. Developers in the R and open source communities are overwhelmingly white, male, from a handful of countries, primarily English-speaking, and do not use assistive technologies to participate. Research software ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. Can you think of an rOpenSci community member that you’d like to thank? A reviewer who helped you improve your package? Someone who answered your question? A community call speaker from whom you gained insight? Someone who encouraged you behind the scenes? Consider leaving them a note in the comments below expressing your gratitude. We often think our thank yous, but expressing thank yous can be incredibly meaningful. Try to be specific. What did they do? What impact did their actions have? On that note, we also want to take ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. How to join this free online event with Arfon Smith, Karthik Ram, Maëlle Salmon and Noam Ross. Software peer-review involves coordinating and tracking many moving parts: software submissions, testing and diagnostics, assignment of editors and reviewers, and logging the progression of submissions through revisions and acceptance. On this call we will discuss how rOpenSci has worked with The Journal of Open Source Software to extend JOSS’s approach of chatops-driven publishing into a new GitHub chat-bot that manages our editorial process: assigning tasks, tagging issues, running tests on software submissions, and ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. How to join this free online event with Noam Ross, Rebecca Killick, Christoph Sax and Juliane Manitz. This is the second in a series of 1-hour Community Calls on our statistical software review project. We at rOpenSci have expanded the scope of our software peer review system to encompass explicitly statistical software. The first Community Call in this series covered new tools to help people prepare their software for submission. This time, we will address the bigger picture of how our community-informed development of standards for statistical packages meets a ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. How to join this free online event with Jeroen Ooms and Karthik Ram. The R-universe platform is a new umbrella project under which rOpenSci experiments with new ideas for improving publication and discovery of research software in R. The system provides an array of services to users and developers of R packages, with integrated measuring and monitoring tools to analyze the state and evolution of the ecosystem. The platform is based around a modern build infrastructure, which enables users or research groups to seamlessly set up automated R package repositories ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. How to join this free online event with Noam Ross, Mark Padgham, Anna Krystalli, Alex Hayes and John Sakaluk. This is the first in a series of Community Calls we’ll host throughout the year on our statistical software review project. We at rOpenSci are in the process of expanding the scope of our software peer-review system to encompass explicitly statistical software. As part of this we have developed new tools to help prepare software for submission. One of these, the autotest package, implements and automates rigorous testing of all function ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. rOpenSci community calls are online events with the fundamental goal of strengthening our community. We have the additional goals of reinforcing our mission and values, informing people on technical and social topics, bringing different stakeholders’ perspectives to light, and identifying unmet needs on a topic. Calls can include one to six speakers, or a moderated panel discussion. They run for an hour and consist of 40 minutes of presentation and 20 minutes for questions from the audience. Generally, our calls attract fairly large audiences and we see significant representation from ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. It has been a while since we posted an update about magick, but behind the scenes we are constantly tweaking and improving this package, which has become a very mature and complete toolkit for image processing in R. Over the past year, we did 6 CRAN releases, containing many small features and fixes, but perhaps more importantly, the package is getting betting better due to updates of the underlying ImageMagick library. As mentioned in the NEWS, magick 2.6.0 gains support for “raw” and “heif” delegates on Windows and MacOS. The ... Read More