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We are pleased to welcome Laura DeCicco, Julia Gustavsen, and Mauro Lepore to our team of Associate Editors for rOpenSci Software Peer Review.They join Brooke Anderson, Anna Krystalli, Karthik Ram, Noam Ross, Maëlle Salmon, and Melina Vidoni.Lincoln Mullen and Scott Chamberlain are now board alumni.

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Autoren Maëlle Salmon, Brooke Anderson, Laura DeCicco, Julia Gustavsen, Anna Krystalli, Mauro Lepore, Karthik Ram, Noam Ross, Melina Vidoni

rOpenSci Software Peer Review’s guidance has been compiled in an online book for more than one year now. We’ve just released its fifth version.To find out what’s new in our dev guide 0.5.0, you can read the changelog,or this blog post for more digested information. 🔗A curation policy for rOpenSci packages The most exciting update to our guide is probably the addition of a chapter featuring rOpenSci package curation policy.

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Autor Luke McGuinness

Background & motivation medRxiv, as the preprint repository for papers in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences, 1 has become a central source of new studies related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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🔗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.

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At the eLife Sprint in September 2020, we revamped the covidpreprints.com website, which aims at featuring landmark preprints on a timeline of the pandemic. 🔗The birth of the project The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led to about 35 million confirmed cases and over a million deaths worldwide.

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The title of this post refers to Hacktoberfest, a month-long event organized annually by Digital Ocean to encourage contributions to open source projects on GitHub.Unfortunately, this October, many maintainers are dealing with spam pull requests.So instead of issuing a general appeal to participate, we’re pointing you to our new Community Contributing Guide’s section dedicated to our open Issues List.Along with showing you how to find help

Software Peer ReviewPackagesPhylogeneticsComparativeBiologyInformatikEnglisch
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Autoren April Wright, Cristian Román-Palacios, Josef Uyeda

The data.table package enables high-performance extended functionality for data tables in R. treedata.table is a wrapperfor data.table for phylogenetic analyses that matches a phylogeny to the data.table, and preserves matching during data.table operations.Using the data.table package greatly increases analysis reproducibility and the efficiency of data manipulation operations over other ways of performing similar tasks inbase R, enabling

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Autor Scott Chamberlain

I’m starting to tackle a few hard packages (spplit and spenv) having to do with integrating disparate data sources. I’ll talk here about spplit. I haven’t worked on spplit in a few years; I thought I’d make another attempt with “fresh” eyes. There are many use cases I can imagine for spplit; I’ll highlight a few.

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Autor Jonathan Keane

This post describes a few different aspects behind the scenes of the development of dittodb which recently went through the rOpenSci peer review process and was released to CRAN on 24 July 2020.This isn’t an introduction to the package itself (that’s available on dittodb’s site), but rather a look behind the scenes of the conceiving of the idea, the inspiration for, some of the development of, and history behind dittodb.