A few weeks ago, prof Matt Crump wrote a blog post in which he explores tools to handle MIDI data in R, in preparation for a cognition experiment that involves creating musical stimuli. In the article he ends up using a mix of external command line tools ffmpeg and fluidsynth and a python module.

The package waywiser maintained by Mike Mahoney provides ergonomic methods for assessing spatial models.Assessing predictive models of spatial data can be challenging,both because these models are typically built for extrapolating outside the original region represented by training data and due to potential spatially structured errors,with “hot spots” of higher than expected error clustered geographically due to spatial structure in the

The rOpenSci Champions Program starts this 2024 with a new cohort of Champions. We are pleased to introduce you to our Champions and their projects! 🔗Ezekiel Adebayo Ogundepo Hello, I’m Ezekiel, a data science professional deeply fascinated by the intersection of mathematics, statistics, and real-world challenges.

We recently introduced a new paragraph to the development version of our dev guide This complements the statistical software review requirement for Bayesian software. This tech note’s aim is to make the new requirement louder, demonstrate some approaches to verbosity control, and to gather community feedback!

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 The R-Universe now builds MacOS ARM64 binaries for use on Apple Silicon (aka M1/M2/M3) systems! Find out more in the related tech note. 🔗Coworking Read all about coworking in our recent post! Join us for social coworking &

As part of rOpenSci’s multilingual publishing project ¹ , we have been developing the babeldown R package, for translating Markdown-based content using the DeepL API.

🔗Abstract / TLDR R-universe now provides MacOS arm64 binaries for all R packages.

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Being a part of the rOpenSci Champion’s program has been a transformative experience, pushing me to explore the world of R package development and contribute to the world of open science. While my initial project proposal took a different route, the unexpected journey led me to create a valuable tool that I am proud to call my own – an R package ChartkickR.

It was 2015, a Political Science master’s student had to process data to hand in his thesis and decided to take the opportunity to learn how to use R. To the long and winding road of the academic requirement was added an extra degree of difficulty: incorporating programming software from scratch, with a somewhat steep learning curve.