In the last post, we used the qualtRics ¹ package to import survey data directly from Qualtrics accounts.I often use Qualtrics for survey data collected via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, which is an automated system that connects online respondents to paid surveys.However, sometimes those data are not super useful because the quality of the data is poor.In the anonymous, large-scale market of online survey respondents, the financial

The online survey system Qualtrics can be a great way to collect data from research participants, customers, and stakeholders. I use it frequently to conduct research studies with participants or just to poll students and collaborators.

Package yfR recently passed peer review at rOpenSci and is all about downloading stock price data from Yahoo Finance (YF). I wrote this package to solve a particular problem I had as a teacher: I needed a large volume of clean stock price data to use in my classes, either for explaining how financial markets work or for class exercises. While there are several R packages to import raw data from YF, none solved my problem.

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 rOpenSci Code of Conduct update We are pleased to announce the release of a new version of our Code of Conduct.

In this post I will provide some examples of what has changed between rtweet 0.7.0 and rtweet 1.0.2.I hope both the changes and this guide will help all users.I highlight the most important and interesting changes in this blog post, and for a full list of changes you can consult it on the NEWS.

We are pleased to announce the release of Version 2.4 of our Code of Conduct with changes based on the feedback of our community. What’s new? Greater detail about acceptable and unacceptable behaviors in online settings. First translation of the text to Spanish. You can access now the last version full-text in English and Spanish. We welcome your feedback by email to conduct at ropensci.org.

Say you have a bug report or feature request to make to a package.How can you use information on GitHub to manage your expectations (will there be a quick fix) and actions (should you go ahead and fork the repository)?In this post, we shall go over sources of information and explain how they can be used.In the end, there is no magical recipe, except perhaps graciousness, as software is made by humans.

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!

Hello! I am Yanina Bellini Saibene, your new community manager. I’m so excited to join rOpenSci in this role, and support such an important project in open science and in the R Community.

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 same reason as any code.

Zhiam Kamvar is Lesson Infrastructure Technology Developer at The Carpentries (Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry & Library Carpentry), an open global community teaching the skills &