August 20, 2020
A semi-monthly summary of the rOpenSci Newsletter including software reviews, packages on CRAN, use cases, posts from staff and community, and events. June 22 to August 17, 2020
rOpenSci HQ
Join our Community Manager Stefanie Butland in a CarpentryCon @ Home fireside chat on Growing Inclusive, Computational Communities and Leaders. Live 90-min discussions Wed Aug 26 21h00 (2pm PDT) and Thu Aug 27 15h00 UTC (8am PDT). Other panelists over the two sessions are Abigail Cabunoc Mayes (Mozilla Foundation), Kate Hertweck (Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center), Toby Hodges (The Carpentries), Angela Li (U Chicago), Marlene Mhangami (Python Software Foundation), Naomi Penfold (eLife), and Serah Rono (The Carpentries). Submit your questions for the panel before Aug 24.
Software
2 new peer-reviewed packages from the community are on CRAN.
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chirps - API Client for Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station Data. Author: Kauê de Sousa
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dittodb - Makes testing against databases easy. Author: Jonathan Keane
On the Blog
From the community
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OSF: A Project Management Service Built for Research by Aaron Wolen
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Maintaining an R Package - Community Call Summary by Janani Ravi and Steffi LaZerte
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Community Captioning of rOpenSci Community Calls by Matthias Grenié and Hugo Gruson
From the rOpenSci team
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CRAN Checks API News: Documentation, Notifications, and More Tech note by Scott Chamberlain and Maëlle Salmon
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A better way to manage your Github personal access tokens Tech note by Jeroen Ooms
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2 Months in 2 Minutes - rOpenSci News, June 2020 by Stefanie Butland
Use Cases
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124 published works cited or used rOpenSci software (listed in individual newsletters)
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11 use cases for our packages or resources were posted in our discussion forum Look for av, DataPackageR, magick, pdftools, qualtRics, rtweet, tabulizer, webmockr, vcr
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