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CommunityChampions ProgramComputer and Information Sciences
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🔗The Champions Program got off to a great start in 2023! We’re happy to report on the first couple of months in our first run of the rOpenSci Champions Program. In September 2022, we launched the program, advertising for both mentors and mentees to apply. We received a total of 102 applications from 31 different countries. Seventy-four applications were for champions and twenty eight for mentors.

NewsletterComputer and Information Sciences
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Author The rOpenSci Team

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 🔗R-universe improvements!

R-universeTech NotesRegistryPackagesDashboardComputer and Information Sciences
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🔗Running your own package registry Tiny update for r-universe users whos run their own package registry: we have changed the preferred git repo name where you host your packages.json registry file. Previously the git repository was simply called universe, i.e. the registry for tiledb-inc.r-universe.dev was in the GitHub repository tiledb-inc/universe.

PackageMaintenanceComputer and Information Sciences
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Part of what we aim to do at rOpenSci is nurture a community of package maintainers who help each other.In addition to support during package maintenance, we also want to support maintainers who wish to move on. Situations can change, and there may come a time when a maintainer is looking to pass maintenance on to another.

DynamiteBayesianPanel DataCausal InferenceTech NotesComputer and Information Sciences
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🔗Introduction Panel data contains measurements from multiple subjects measured over multiple time points.Such data can be encountered in many social science applications such as when analysing register data or cohort studies (for example).Often the aim is to perform causal inference based on such observational data (instead of randomized control trials). A new rOpensci-reviewed R package dynamite available on CRAN implements a new class of

R-universeTech NotesFront-endDocumentationDashboardComputer and Information Sciences
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ul a:hover{text-decoration: underline;} 🔗Pretty permanent URLs! We have improved the URL schema for the r-universe.dev front-end to make it even easier to find and share a link to an R package, article, API, or other resource. The old URLs will now automatically be redirected to the new locations, so this should be a non-breaking change. But of course we recommend updating your references to link to the new permanent URLs.

NewsletterComputer and Information Sciences
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Author The rOpenSci Team

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 🔗{targets} in Action Community Call Tuesday, 31 January 2023 20:00 UTC / Tuesday, 31 January 2023 15:00 EST / Wednesday, 1st February 07:00 AEDT.

CurlHttpTech NotesComputer and Information Sciences
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🔗curl 5.0.0 is on CRAN A new major version of the curl package has been released to CRAN. This release both brings internal improvements as well as new user-facing functionality, in particular with respect to concurrent downloads. From the NEWS file:curl 5.0.0 - New function multi_download() which supports concurrent downloads and resuming download for large files, while giving detailed progress information.

CommunityMultilingualComputer and Information Sciences
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We are excited to announce that, with the support of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, NumFOCUS, and the R Consortium, we have begun the process of translating rOpenSci’s materials on best practices for software development, code review, and contribution to open source projects into Spanish.As part of this effort, we are also developing guidelines and tools for translating open source resources to reach a wider audience.

Code Of ConductGovernanceCommunityComputer and Information Sciences
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Authors Yanina Bellini Saibene, Mark Padgham, Kara Woo, Megan Carter

This report presents our annual review of the rOpenSci Code of Conduct, reporting process, and internal guidelines for handling reports and enforcement. 🔗Updates Changes to the text, including addition of greater detail about acceptable and unacceptable behaviors in online settings.Added a new language, through doing the first translation of the text to Spanish.Changes to the committee.

CommunityCode Of ConductGovernanceComputer and Information Sciences
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The rOpenSci community is supported by our Code of Conduct with a clear description of unacceptable behaviors,instructions on how to make a report, and information on how reports are handled. We, the Code of Conduct Committee,are responsible for receiving, investigating, deciding, enforcing and reporting on all reports of potentialviolations of our Code.