TLDR: As of today, the pkgdown sites for all rOpenSci packages on our docs server are built on r-universe. This is an internal change; no action is required for package maintainers. 🔗From Jenkins to r-universe For the past 2 years we have been using a Jenkins server to automatically build the pkgdown sites for all rOpenSci packages, which get published on https://docs.ropensci.org.
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 🔗Recordings of useR! 2021 Recordings of useR! 2021 are now available on the conference website.
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be hosting monthly social coworking + office hours sessions via Zoom, starting September 7th!
🔗Summary censo2017 is an R package designed toorganize the Redatam 1 filesprovided by the Chilean National Bureau of Statistics (Instituto Nacional deEstadísticas de Chile in spanish) in DVD format 2 . This package was inspiredby citesdb(Noam Ross, 2020) and taxadb(Carl Boettiger et al, 2021).This post is about thispackage, the problem it solves, how to use it, and the fact that the package andits review process were all
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!
A new rOpenSci package katex is now on CRAN.This package allows for converting latex math expressions to HTML and MathML for use in markdown documents or package documentation. The R package uses the katex javascript library, but the rendering is done directly in R using the V8 engine (i.e. server-side), which eliminates the need for embedding the MathJax library into html pages.
Are you putting together your useR!2021 conference schedule this weekend? Four rOpenSci staff and lots of community members are giving presentations and there’s something for everyone! 🔗Talks by rOpenSci staff Jeroen Ooms , Lead Infrastructure Engineer, will give a keynote talk about the R-universe project on Friday, July 9, 12:30PM - 1:30PM UTC / 5:30AM PDT.
How to keep up with rOpenSci?We agree that we’re doing so much good work that it’s hard. 😉More seriously, we’ve been curating and sharing a news digest with our community for years because we believe it to be useful.Over time its structure and infrastructure have evolved.In this post we’ll share how we currently prepare content for the newsletter and send it to subscribers’ mailboxes, as automatically as possible.
🔗R-universe: your personal R space The r-universe platform provides users and organizations with a personal CRAN-like repository for publishing software, rmarkdown articles, and other content that fits in an R package.
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 Video and resources from our past community call about rOpenSci’s R-universe Project were posted.
Happy World Ocean Day! World Ocean Day is a day of celebration and action to protect our shared ocean. While I already appreciate the importance of protecting sensitive ecosystems, including the ocean 1 , I found the idea of World Ocean Day especially touching.