Post in English ¡Hola! Soy Yanina Bellini Saibene, tu nueva Community Manager. Estoy muy entusiasmada de unirme a rOpenSci con este rol y así poder apoyar un proyecto tan importante en la ciencia abierta y en la Comunidad R. Cuando vi la convocatoria... [Read more...]

These days web Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are everywhere (scientific data sources, your system for Customer relationship management, cat facts API…). Do you need to write some R code wrapping a web resource such as an API? Packaging it up might be useful to you or your team for the ... [Read more...]

Zhiam Kamvar is Lesson Infrastructure Technology Developer at The Carpentries (Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry & Library Carpentry), an open global community teaching the skills & perspectives to turn data into knowledge.1 Maëlle Salmon is ... [Read more...]

rOpenSci Software Peer Review’s guidance is gathered in an online book that keeps improving! This blog post summarises what’s new in our Dev Guide 0.8.0, with all changes listed in the changelog. Farewell Stefanie Butland After many years... [Read more...]

Anyone can contribute a software package to the rOpenSci suite as long as it fits our scope (research lifecycle software and statistical software) for a transparent, constructive, nonadversarial and open review. In practice, the review steps are all r... [Read more...]

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 R-universe prominently displays more information on packages! We ha... [Read more...]

Following our recent post on “Safeguards and Backups for GitHub Organizations”, nearly one month ago we went one step further and made two-factor authentication (2FA) required for all members and outside collaborators of our main organizat... [Read more...]

Read on for a little trick to always get the default branch… While git has no “default” branch, online code platforms such as GitHub need to define a default for the branch that someone sees when they look at code online. While the ... [Read more...]

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 pkgcheck reports now include dependencies Our automated checking sy... [Read more...]

rOpenSci Software Peer Review and Statistical Software Peer Review rely on the volunteer work of reviewers, and editors. Editors manage the day-to-day flow of submissions, recruit reviewers and guide the peer-review process from start to finish. (Thei... [Read more...]

TL;DR rsnps is a package that enables the retrieval of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data from the NCBI’s dbSNP database and openSNP by providing wrappers for the APIs. Single nucleotide polymorphisms represent differences at one specifi... [Read more...]

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At rOpenSci, much of our code, content and infrastructure is hosted on GitHub over several organizations – described on our resources page. This post summarizes some steps we’ve taken to safeguard our GitHub organizations. Paying attentio... [Read more...]

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 R-universe gets advanced search! The landing page for rOpenSci&rsqu... [Read more...]

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They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. Carl W. Buehner This was how being a newcomer to rOpenSci OzUnconf 2019 felt. It was incredible to be a part of such a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment. I thought it would be fun ... [Read more...]

Background and role context rOpenSci seeks a Community Manager to support and build our vibrant and inclusive community of researchers and software engineers and help expand the scope and impact of our work in open science. rOpenSci’s mission i... [Read more...]

What is pkgcheck? The pkgcheck package has been developed by rOpenSci to automate the process of checking all packages on submission. The ropensci-review-bot automatically runs pkgcheck on all submissions, and checks can also be called at any time by... [Read more...]

The rOpenSci R-universe is a bit special as, compared to other R-universes, it builds docs for all the packages in our suite. Looking at the dashboard helps us identify failures in building the packages as well as in building the pkgdown websites. We ... [Read more...]

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 Co-working events Join us for social coworking & office hours... [Read more...]