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 We have no less than three categories of (online 😉) events coming up: social co-working events, a community call, a conference with contributions from four rOpenSci staff members.
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!
Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup!Some housekeeping first:We’ve been changing the infrastructure of our newsletter a bit so please update your RSS and JSON feeds to https://ropensci.org/tags/newsletter/index.xml and https://ropensci.org/tags/newsletter/index.json, respectively.You can read this post on our blog.Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci!rOpenSci HQ Our R-universe project now has its own
rOpenSci HQ We’re thrilled to announce three new rOpenSci Software Review Editors: Laura DeCicco, Julia Gustavsen, and Mauro Lepore and we released the fifth version (v0.5) of the rOpenSci Developer Guide. Our Community Call on The Wild World of Data Repositories took place Dec 16 with an audience of 153 people!
rOpenSci HQ rOpenSci at R-Ladies Our community manager Stefanie Butland, and one of our software review editors Brooke Anderson, are speaking remotely at an R-Ladies East Lansing meetup Thursday, October 22nd. They will talk about our how to get involved in rOpenSci using our new Contributing Guide as an entry point, and through participating in software review as a package author or reviewer.
rOpenSci HQ Join our Community Manager Stefanie Butland in a CarpentryCon @ Home fireside chat on Growing Inclusive, Computational Communities and Leaders.
rOpenSci HQ The rOpenSci team, together with ten expert community members, put together a post: When Field or Lab Work is not an Option - Leveraging Open Data Resources for Remote Research. We highlighted examples of how specific collections of packages are being used right now in fields as varied as archaeology and climate science and compiled a table of > 100 rOpenSci packages for access to open data.
rOpenSci HQ The recording, collaborative notes and links to community discussion and resources are up for our latest Community Call on Maintaining an R package. Panel moderated by Julia Silge included Elin Waring, Erin Grand, Leonardo Collado-Torres, and Scott Chamberlain. Software Peer Review 1 staff-contributed package passed software peer review. parzer - Parse messy geographic coordinates.
rOpenSci HQ On behalf of rOpenSci, thank you to everyone who has contributed their creativity, curiosity, smarts, and time in the last year. Read our Thank You, 2019. Software Peer Review 3 community-contributed packages passed software peer review. osfr - R Interface to OSF. Author: Aaron Wolen; Reviewers: Heidi Seibold, Carl Boettiger;
rOpenSci HQ rOpenSci Announces a New $896k Award From The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to Improve the Scientific Package Ecosystem for R. We’re excited to announce a new member of our team! Introducing Mark Padgham, rOpenSci’s new Software Research Scientist NumFOCUS recognizes Melina Vidoni and Will Landau for their contributions to rOpenSci.
