Dear Ropenci -Friends, it’s time for our monthly news round! You can read this message On our blog. Now let’s dive in the activity on and around Ropsci!
Ropsci headquarters
10 Fast tips to make your software survive your task
Our community manager Yanina Bellini Sibbene participated in the newspaper “10 Fast tips to make your software survive your task”.
“Loss of key staff has always been a risk for research software projects. The most important members of the team may have to step away due to illness or burnout, to ensure a family member, due to a loss of financial support, or because their career is going in a new direction. Nowadays political and financial changes in the work that the software has been built in career or investigation – or het Hetbewegingen – or Het Hetbewegingen – or Het Nu have left the course of cars – or Het Hetbewegingen – or Het Hetbewegingen – or Het Hetbewegingen – or Het Hetbewegingen – or Het Nu have left their current job – or Het Hiking Hobeing – or Het Hikinge Hobing – or Het Heerlaan Hobing – or Het Baanthoudingen – or Het Baadenweging – or Het Baadenwegingen – or Het Baantlaan Heater – or Het Baantlaantingen – or Het Baantlaantingen – or Het Bunari Heater – or Het Baantlaan Heater: But especially in cases of involuntary departure due to political or institutional changes. “
From ideas to action: Champions start their training
The training phase starts strong!
So far, Champion participated in five workshops, including two on GIT and Github, one in code style – which we not only opened for champions and mentors, but also for anyone who applied – and two about R -package development. Every session has been an opportunity to learn, share and grow as a community as a community. And we have just started: the following workshops will dive into software peer review and community building – important skills for the trip of every champion!
As usual you can find the materials on us training page.
Request for feedback
We recently have one Blog post Requesting feedback for a prototype of one Dashboard at organizational level To keep track of the health and maintenance of the R -packages of an organization. We are still looking for feedback and suggestions, so read the blog post if you haven’t done that yet, and help us with your ideas.
Ropsci on the science ouverte blog from Institut Pasteur
In her latest contribution to the Science Overte -Blog, María Gutiérrez Sánchez Investigates how the Ropsci Champions program helps to promote more open, inclusive and multilingual science:
The program strengthens scientific communities in Latin America through training, mentorship and networks on open-source software development. More than just broadening the diversity in the R -community, the initiative has aimed at redistributing power in the Global Open Science Ecosystem, and acknowledging that sustainable solutions must arise from the communities themselves.
Read the full article French (original) or Spanish.
Coworking
Read Everything about Coworking!
And don’t forget that you can always work independently of work, work on packages that tend to be neglected, or work on whatever you should do!
Software 📦
New packages
The following four packages recently became part of our software suite:
SsarpDeveloped by Kristen Martinet: Create species and specialty area relationships with the help of event records or presence-absence matrices. It has been assessed By Tom Matthews and Joel Nitta.
RixpressDeveloped by Bruno Rodrigues: Streamlining the creation of reproducible analytical pipelines using standard.nix expressions generated via Rix for reproducibility. Define distractions in R, Python or Julia, chain them in a composition of pure functions and build the resulting pipeline using NIX as the underlying end-to-end Build tool. Functions to plot a day display of the pipeline are included, as well as functions to load intermediary results and to inspect for interactive analysis. User experience strongly inspired by the goal package. It has been assessed By William Michael Landau and Anthony Martinez.
HDCure modelsdeveloped by Kellie J. Archer together with Han FU: offers functions for adjusting various punished parametric and semi-parametric mixture of cure models with different penalty functions, testing for a significant remedy and testing for sufficient follow-up as described in Fu et al (2022) And Archer et al (2024). False discovery speed controlled variable selection is provided with the help of Model-X Knock-Offs. It is available on Kran. It has been assessed By Tung of the Storist Pailasaulis.
datasetDeveloped by Daniel Antal: The dataset package helps to create semantic rich, machine-readable and interoperable data sets in R. It expands neat data frames with metadata that preserves meaning, improves interoperability and making data sets easier to publish, change and re-use with ISO and re-use. It is available on Kran. It has been assessed By Marcelo Perlin, Anna Márta Mester and Mauro Lepore.
Discover More packagesRead more about Software Peer Review.
New versions
The next fourteen packages have had an update since the last newsletter: Sits ((v1.5.3-1),),, C14BAAZAR ((5.2.0),),, Comtradr ((v1.0.4),),, data pice ((v1.1.1),),, Gql ((v0.1.2),),, magic ((v2.9.0),),, paleobiodb ((v1.0.1),),, Rgbif ((v3.8.3),),, rhino ((v0.1.10),),, list ((v1.1.1),),, RSVG ((v2.7.0),),, spatoc ((v0.2.10),),, sea types ((0.13.2), And go ((1.11.4).
Software Peer Review
Sixteen recently closed and active entries and 4 entries are on hold. Problems are in different phases:
Read more about Software Peer Review And how you can participate.
On the blog
Ropsci Champions Second Cohort: Projects Wrap-Up By Yanina Bellini Sibbene. Our second cohort of champions completed the program. In this blog post we share the projects of every champion, their performance and outreach activities.
From survival to a thriving: a challenging to reclaim and support open science communities By Kari L. Jordan, Erin Becker, Daniela Saderi, Vanessa Fairhurst, Patricia Herterich, Noam Ross, Yanina Bellini Sibbene, Leah Wasser and Yo Yehudi. Five leading open science organizations – De Carpentries, OLS, Ropsci, Pypensci and PreereView – come together for a strategic gathering, supported by the Navigation Fund, to tackle shared challenges of underfunding, fragmentation and non -durable volunteer models.
A soft introduction to open science By Steffi Lazerte. Steffi assesses a lecture about Open Science. Remember that courage is needed; Be nice for yourself. Other languages: A smooth introduction to Open Science (FR).
Tech Notes
Call for contributions
Calls on for under holders
If you are interested in maintaining one of the R -packages below, please read our blog post What does it mean to maintain a package?.
Call for contributions
Consult our Help Wanted Page – Before we open a PR, we recommend asking if help is still needed.
Package development angle
Some useful tips for R package developers. 👀
Are your job names unique?
Thanks to an idea from Egor Kotov, via https://github.com/ropensci-review-tools/pkgcheck/issues/142The PKGCHeck package now contains an independent function to use during package development, to quickly check whether your job names are unique:
pkgcheck::fn_names_on_cran (c ("min", "max"))
#> package version fn_name
#> 161627 matlab2r 1.1.0 max
#> 161628 matlab2r 1.1.0 min
#> 178817 mosaic 1.8.3 max
#> 178821 mosaic 1.8.3 min
#> 234203 rapportools 1.1 max
#> 234207 rapportools 1.1 min
R-Universe Badge by Usethis
The latest version of Usethis contains a handy function use_r_universe_badge() That indicates which version of your package is available on R-Universe.
New Test That Vignetten
The development version of the tests package functions New vignettes including a useful overview of “Test challenging functions”.
Ai -newsletter by posit
Posit’s Sara Altman and Simon Couch started one newsletter About AI developments both inside and outside their company.
Last words
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