Today we are pleased to announce that we have received new funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The $894k grant will help us improve infrastructure for R packages and enable us to move towards a science first package ecosystem for the R community. You may have already noticed ... [Read more...]

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Theme song: PSA by Jay-Z We announced the testing version of skimr v2 on June 19, 2018. After more than a year of (admittedly intermittent) work, we’re thrilled to be able to say that the package is ready to go to CRAN. So, what happened over the last year? And why ... [Read more...]

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rOpenSci HQ What would you like to hear about in an rOpenSci Community Call? We are soliciting your “votes” and new ideas for Community Call topics and speakers. Find out how you can influence us by checking out our new Community Calls repository. Videos, speaker’s slides, resources and collaborative ... [Read more...]

We want to know how you use rOpenSci packages and resources so we can give them, their developers, and your examples more visibility. It’s valuable to both users and developers of a package to see how it has been used “in the wild”. This goes a long way to ... [Read more...]

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As announced in February, we now have an online book containing all things related to rOpenSci software review. Our goal is to update it approximately quarterly - it’s time to present the third version. You can read the changelog or this blog post to find out what’s new ... [Read more...]

Image processing is one of the core focus areas of rOpenSci. Over the last few months we have released several major upgrades to core packages in our imaging suite, including magick, tesseract, and av. This post highlights a few cool new features. Magick 2.2 The magick package is one of the ... [Read more...]

citecorp is a new (hit CRAN in late August) R package for working with data from the OpenCitations Corpus (OCC). OpenCitations, run by David Shotton and Silvio Peroni, houses the OCC, an open repository of scholarly citation data under the very open CC0 license. The I4OC (Initiative for Open ... [Read more...]

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Teaching collaborative software development In the University of British Columbia’s Master of Data Science program one of the courses we teach is called Collaborative Software Development, DSCI 524. In this course we focus on teaching how to exploit practices from collaborative software development techniques in data scientific workflows. This includes ... [Read more...]

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rOpenSci HQ rOpenSci received a $678K award from the Sloan Foundation to expand Software Peer Review. We are hiring for a new position in statistical software testing and peer review. Join our next Community Call on Reproducible Workflows at Scale with drake September 24th. Videos, speakers’ slides, resources and collaborative ... [Read more...]

Introduction The availability of large quantities of freely available data is revolutionizing the world of ecological research. Open data maximizes the opportunities to perform comparative analyses and meta-analyses. Such synthesis efforts will increasingly exploit “population data”, which we define here as time series of population abundance. Such population data plays ... [Read more...]

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Are you passionate about statistical methods and software? If so we would love for you to join our team to dig deep into the world of statistical software packages. You’ll develop standards for evaluating and reviewing statistical t... [Read more...]

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We’re delighted to announce that we have received new funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The $678K grant, awarded through the Foundation’s Data & Computational Research program, will be used to expand our efforts in software peer review. Software peer review has become a core part of rOpenSci, ... [Read more...]

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