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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

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. Many people in our community actively contribute to rOpenSci projects. Many others would like to contribute but aren’t sure how to go about it. Wanting to get involved in rOpenSci or “give back to open source” means different things to different people. Ideally, a person should be able to find a way to contribute that meets their needs and fits our mission. We created the rOpenSci Community Contributing Guide to make finding paths to contributing more transparent and sustainable. Cover illustration by Lydia Hill We welcome contributors from a continuum ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. In this post I will explain the history behind BaseSet then a brief introduction to sets, followed by showing what you can do with BaseSet. Brief BaseSet history I study diseases to try to find what causes them at a research institute associated with an hospital. Thanks to recent technological advances we can analyze many things from a single patient’s sample. Having so much information available can be overwhelming, making it difficult to find the causes of diseases (but it is much better than not having enough information!). In order ... Read More

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 victims and people who report incidents. In 2020, 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. Science craft As a field linguist, I have spent a lot of time working in villages in the Caucasus, collecting audio from speakers of indigenous languages. The processing of such data involves a lot of time-consuming tasks, so during my field trips I created my own pipeline for data collection. I wrote a number of scripts using different programming languages for automatic renaming, merging, and preannotation of files, making backups, visualizing some data, etc. My method consisted of a combination of solutions developed on the fly to solve specific, independent ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. A new version of vcr was just released. See the release notes for all the details. I want to highlight a few of the more notable changes. New contributor vcr has a new author: Maëlle Salmon. She has been contributing to the package quite a lot lately, including many documentation improvements and big updates to the HTTP Testing in R which covers vcr in addition to some other packages. New serializer vcr now has two serializer options: YAML (which we had before) and JSON (the new one). Serializing here refers ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. rOpenSci HQ We’re thrilled to announce three new rOpenSci Software Review Editors: Laura DeCicco, Julia Gustavsen, and Mauro Lepore and we released the fifth version (v0.5) of the rOpenSci Developer Guide. Our Community Call on The Wild World of Data Repositories took place Dec 16 with an audience of 153 people! The video will be posted, along with collaborative notes and resources, by Dec 21. Software Peer Review 2 community-contributed packages passed software peer review. 6 packages have been submitted for review. We will not be accepting new submissions during ... Read More