A new R-package, coder, has been developed, peer-reviewed by rOpenSci, accepted by CRAN, and published in a paper by the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). In this blog post, I will explain why this package might be useful for (epidemiological/medical/health care related) research. 🔗Clinical mess Once upon a time, in countries not far from ours, there were MDs and nurses making up funny names for any diseases they encountered.

Make ¹ -like pipelines enhance the integrity, transparency, shelf life, efficiency, and scale of large analysis projects.With pipelines, data science feels smoother and more rewarding, and the results are worthy of more trust. targets install.packages("targets") The targets ² package is a new pipeline toolkit for R.It recently cleared software review, and it is now on CRAN.

rOpenSci community calls are online events with the fundamental goal of strengthening our community.

It has been a while since we posted an update about magick, but behind the scenes we are constantly tweaking and improving this package, which has become a very mature and complete toolkit for image processing in R. Over the past year, we did 6 CRAN releases, containing many small features and fixes, but perhaps more importantly, the package is getting betting better due to updates of the underlying ImageMagick library.

More and more R packages access resources on the web, and play crucial roles in workflows.Examples from the rOpenSci suite of packages include rromeo, GSODR, qualtRics, rnassqs, and many, many others.Like for all other packages, appropriate unit testing can make them more robust.However, unit testing of these packages can bring special challenges: dependence of tests on a good internet connection, testing in the absence of authentication

Many people in our community actively contribute to rOpenSci projects.

In this post I will explain the history behind BaseSet then a brief introduction to sets, followed by showing what you can do with BaseSet.

Our community is our best asset. It’s so important to us, it’s in our mission statement. We recognize that communities are not inclusive by default; they require deliberate attention, including an enforceable Code of Conduct. rOpenSci is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, welcoming, and harassment-free experience for everyone.

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 potential violations of our Code.

🔗Science craft As a field linguist, I have spent a lot of time working in villages in the Caucasus, collecting audio from speakers of indigenous languages. The processing of such data involves a lot of time-consuming tasks, so during my field trips I created my own pipeline for data collection.

A new version of vcr was just released. See the release notes for all the details. I want to highlight a few of the more notable changes. 🔗New contributor vcr has a new author: Maëlle Salmon. She has been contributing to the package quite a lot lately, including many documentation improvements and big updates to the HTTP Testing in R which covers vcr in addition to some other packages.