Thanksgiving is celebrated in many parts of the world.The USA, rOpenSci’s official location, celebrates Thanksgiving this Thursday, 28th November.Giving thanks to contributors is also an important part of open-source software development.Many open-source software projects use the allcontributors.org system to acknowledge contributions, which includes One strong motivation for allcontributors.org is to “Recognize all contributors, including those
As part of our work documenting R-Universe,we’re adding screenshots of the interface to the documentation website.Taking screenshots manually could quickly become very cumbersome, especially as we expect they’ll need updating in future: we might want to change the universes we feature, the interface might improve yet again and therefore look slightly different.Therefore, we decided to opt for a programmatic approach.In this post we shall present
Recently Yanina Bellini Saibene reminded usto update our Slack profile: After doing that I went on to updating my profile photos on the rOpenSciwebsite, which ended up teaching me a few git tricks I would like to share here.Thanks Maëlle Salmon for the encouragement, andSteffi LaZerte for reviewing this post.
rOpenSci’s second cohort of Champions has been onboarded!Their training first started with a session on code style, was followed by three sessions on the basics of R package development, and ended with a session on advanced R package development, which consisted of a potpourri of tips with discussion, followed by time for applying these principles to the participants’ packages.Here, I want to share one of the topics covered: Package testing, and
