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When Standards Go Wild – Software Review for a Manuscript

April 17, 2019 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

Stefanie Butland, rOpenSci Community Manager Some things are just irresistible to a community manager – PhD student Hugo Gruson’s recent tweets definitely fall into that category. I was surprised and intrigued to see an example of our software peer review guidelines being used in a manuscript review, independent of our ...

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Community Call – Security for R

April 8, 2019 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

“Security” can be a daunting, scary, and (frankly) quite often a very boring topic. BUT!, we promise that this Community Call on May 7th will be informative, engaging, and enlightening (or, at least not boring)! Applying security best practices is essential not only for developers or sensitive data storage but ...

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Getting your toes wet in R: Hydrology, meteorology, and more

April 1, 2019 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

Importance of Hydrology Given that liquid water is essential to life on Earth, water research cuts across numerous disciplines including hydrology, meteorology, geography, climate science, engineering, ecology, and more. Numerous R packages have emerged from this diversity of approaches, and we recently gathered many of them into a new rOpenSci ... [Read more...]

drake transformed

March 17, 2019 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

Version 7.0.0 of drake just arrived on CRAN, and it is faster and easier to use than previous releases. install.packages("drake") Recap Data analysis can be slow. A round of scientific computation can take several minutes, hours, or even days to complete. After it finishes, if you update your code ... [Read more...]

Community Call – Research Applications of rOpenSci Taxonomy and Biodiversity Tools

March 10, 2019 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

Our next Community Call, on March 27th, aims to help people learn about using rOpenSci’s R packages to access and analyze taxonomy and biodiversity data, and to recognize the breadth and depth of their applications. We also aim to learn from the discussion how we might improve these tools. ...

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handlr: convert among citation formats

February 26, 2019 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

Citations are a crucial piece of scholarly work. They hold metadata on each scholarly work, including what people were involved, what year the work was published, where it was published, and more. The links between citations facilitate insight into many questions about scholarly work. Citations come in many different formats ... [Read more...]

stats19: a package for road safety research

February 25, 2019 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

Introduction stats19 is a new R package enabling access to and working with Great Britain’s official road traffic casualty database, STATS19. We started the package in late 2018 following three main motivations: The release of the 2017 road crash statistics, which showed worsening road safety in some areas, increasing the importance ...

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Bugfix release for the ssh package

February 21, 2019 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

The ssh package provides a native ssh client for R. You can connect to a remote server over SSH to transfer files via SCP, setup a secure tunnel, or run a command or script on the host while streaming stdout and stderr directly to the client. The intro vignette provides ...

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Community Call Follow-up – Governance of Open Source Research Software Organizations

February 11, 2019 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

We tend to know a good open source research software project when we see it: The code is well-documented, users contribute back to the project, the software is licensed and citable, and the community interacts and co-produces in a healthy, productive fashion. The academic literature 1 and community discourse 2 around research ... [Read more...]

A Major Upgrade of the V8 package

February 10, 2019 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

This week version 2.0 of the V8 package has been released to CRAN. Go get it now! install.packages("V8") The V8 package provides an embedded JavaScript engine that can be used inside of R. You can use it interactively as a JavaScript console, but it is mostly useful for wrapping ... [Read more...]

rOpenSci Software Peer Review: Still Improving

January 31, 2019 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

rOpenSci’s suite of packages is comprised of contributions from staff engineers and the wider R community, bringing considerable diversity of skills, expertise and experience to bear on the suite. How do we ensure that every package is held to a high standard? That’s where our software review system ...

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Announcing new software peer review editors: Melina Vidoni and Brooke Anderson

January 30, 2019 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

We are pleased to welcome Brooke Anderson and Melina Vidoni to our team of Associate Editors for rOpenSci Software Peer Review. They join Scott Chamberlain, Anna Krystalli, Lincoln Mullen, Karthik Ram, Noam Ross and Maëlle Salmon. With the addition of Brooke and Melina, our editorial board now includes four ...

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Interacting with The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program data

January 28, 2019 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

There seem to be a lot of ways to write about your R package, and rather than have to decide on what to focus on I thought I’d write a little bit about everything. To begin with I thought it best to describe what problem rdhs tries to solve, ...

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wateRinfo – Downloading tidal data to understand the behaviour of a migrating eel

January 21, 2019 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

Do you know what that sound is, Highness? Those are the Shrieking Eels — if you don’t believe me, just wait. They always grow louder when they’re about to feed on human flesh. If you swim back now, I promise, no harm will come to you. I doubt you ...

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rOpenSci’s new Code of Conduct

January 13, 2019 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

We are pleased to announce the release of our new Code of Conduct. rOpenSci’s community is our best asset and it’s important that we put strong mechanisms in place before we have to act on a report. As before, our Code applies equally to members of the rOpenSci ... [Read more...]

vitae: Dynamic CVs with R Markdown

January 9, 2019 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

Why vitae? The process of maintaining a CV can be tedious. It’s a task I often forget about - that is until someone requests it and I find that my latest is woefully out of date. To make matters worse, these professional updates often need repeating across variety of ...

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An even better rOpenSci website with Hugo

January 8, 2019 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

A bit more than one year ago, rOpenSci launched its new website design, by the designer Maru Lango. Not only did the website appearance change (for the better!), but the underlying framework too. ropensci.org is powered by Hugo, like blogdown! Over the last few months, we’ve made the ... [Read more...]

Continuing to Grow Community Together at ozunconf, 2018

January 7, 2019 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

In late November 2018, we ran the third annual rOpenSci ozunconf. This is the sibling rOpenSci unconference, held in Australia. We ran the first ozunconf in Brisbane in 2016, and the second in Melbourne in 2017. Photos taken by Ajay from Fotoholics As usual, before the unconf, we started discussion on GitHub issue ...

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Spelling 2.0: Improved Markdown and RStudio Support

December 19, 2018 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

We have released updates for the rOpenSci text analysis tools. This technote will highlight some of the major improvements in the spelling package and also the underlying hunspell package, which provides the spelling engine for the spelling package. install.packages("spelling") Update to the latest versions to use these cool ...

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rcites – The story behind the package

December 17, 2018 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

The Ecology Hackathon Almost one year ago now, ecologists filled a room for the “Ecology Hackathon: Developing R Packages for Accessing, Synthesizing and Analyzing Ecological Data” that was co-organised by rOpenSci Fellow, Nick Golding and Methods in Ecology and Evolution. This hackathon was part of the “Ecology Across Borders” Joint ...

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Articles by rOpenSci - open tools for open science

When Standards Go Wild – Software Review for a Manuscript

Community Call – Security for R

Getting your toes wet in R: Hydrology, meteorology, and more

drake transformed

Community Call – Research Applications of rOpenSci Taxonomy and Biodiversity Tools

handlr: convert among citation formats

stats19: a package for road safety research

Bugfix release for the ssh package

Community Call Follow-up – Governance of Open Source Research Software Organizations

A Major Upgrade of the V8 package

rOpenSci Software Peer Review: Still Improving

Announcing new software peer review editors: Melina Vidoni and Brooke Anderson

Interacting with The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program data

wateRinfo – Downloading tidal data to understand the behaviour of a migrating eel

rOpenSci’s new Code of Conduct

vitae: Dynamic CVs with R Markdown

An even better rOpenSci website with Hugo

Continuing to Grow Community Together at ozunconf, 2018

Spelling 2.0: Improved Markdown and RStudio Support

rcites – The story behind the package

Articles by rOpenSci - open tools for open science

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