Open Tools and R Packages for Open Science

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  🔗rOpenSci 2024 Highlights and what comes next in 2025  In this blog post, the rOpenSci Team shares the highlights of 2024 and what come next in 2025.

rOpenSci News Digest, January 2025

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 News Digest, October 2024

Jeroen Ooms

Google’s amazing V8 JavaScript/WASM engine is probably one of the most sophisticated open-source software libraries available today. It is used to power the computation in Google Chrome, NodeJS, and also CloudFlare Workers, which make it possible to run code for your website inside the CDN edges. The R package V8 exposes this same engine in R, and has been on CRAN since 2014.

Installing V8 is now even easier

Ted Hart

A recent video on the PBS Ideas Channel posited that the discovery of climate change is humanities greatest scientific achievement. It took synthesizing generations of data from thousands of scientists, hundreds of thousands (if not more) of hours of computer time to run models at institutions all over the world. But how can the individual researcher get their hands of some this data?

Making maps of climate change

Mark Padgham

Maëlle Salmon

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!

Please Shut Up! Verbosity Control in Packages

Yanina Bellini Saibene

The NumFOCUS Diversity &amp; Inclusion in Scientific Computing (“DISC”) Unconf took place as a hybrid event in São Paulo, Brazil, from March 14 to 16, 2025.Our community manager, Yanina Bellini Saibene, and rOpenSci Champions, Andrea Gomez Vargas and Liz Hare, participated.In this short post we report on our experience at and around the unconference.

rOpenSci Participation at NumFOCUS’ DISC Unconf

🔗Badges in r-universe  After creating your personal universe, the dashboard on https://{yourname}.r-universe.dev shows the version and other details for each package in your repository. We have also added a new tab that lists the available badges for the repository.

Generating and customizing badges in r-universe

Stefanie Butland

Scott Chamberlain

Kara Woo

One year ago, we released our new Code of Conduct. At that time, the Code of Conduct Committee (authors of this post) agreed to do an annual review of the text, reporting form, and our internal guidelines. We have made one change to the Code of Conduct text.

rOpenSci Code of Conduct Annual Review

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  🔗rOpenSci Champions Program 2025 In Spanish: Apply before April 30th! We have great news: The call for applications to be part of the new cohort of our 2025 Program is now open! And for the first time it will be in Spanish!

rOpenSci News Digest, March 2025

Julia Silge

rOpenSci is one of the first organizations in the R community I ever interacted with, when I participated in the 2016 rOpenSci unconf. I have since reviewed several rOpenSci packages and been so happy to be connected to this community, but I have never submitted or maintained a package myself. All that changed when I heard the call for a new maintainer for the qualtRics package. “IT’S GO TIME,” I thought.

Relaunching the qualtRics package

R package test suites that include HTTP requests are dependent on an internet connection being up, the internet connection speed, changing behavior of the remote server, as well as changing response formats/data from a remote server. We ideally want to test functionality of our package relative to some known data that isn’t intermittently unavailable or changing.

vcr: record and replay HTTP requests

Will Landau

The drake R package is not only a reproducible research solution, but also a serious high-performance computing engine. The package website introduces drake, and this technical note draws from the guides on high-performance computing and timing in the drake manual. 🔗You can help! Some of these features are brand new, and others are newly refactored.

drake's improved high-performance computing power

Guangchuang Yu

Phylogenetic trees are commonly used to present evolutionary relationships of species. Newick is the

 de facto

format in phylogenetic for representing tree(s). Nexus format incorporates Newick tree text with related information organized into separated units known as blocks. For the R community, we have ape and phylobase packages to import trees from Newick and Nexus formats.

treeio: Phylogenetic data integration

webmockr   webmockr is an R library for stubbing and setting expectations on HTTP requests.It is a port of the Ruby gem webmock. webmockr works by plugging in to another R package that does HTTP requests. It currently only works with crul right now, but we plan to add support for curl and httr later.

webmockr: mock HTTP requests

Noam Ross

Karthik Ram

rOpenSci is pleased to announce a new collaboration with the Methods in Ecology and Evolution (MEE), a journal of the British Ecological Society, published by Wiley press

 
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. Publications destined for MEE that include the development of a scientific R package will now have the option of a joint review process whereby the R package is reviewed by rOpenSci, followed by fast-tracked review of the manuscript by MEE.

Announcing a New rOpenSci Software Review Collaboration

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.

Developing dittodb

We recently had a paper come out in a special issue on

 article-level metrics

in the journal Information Standards Quarterly. Our paper basically compared article-level metrics provided by different aggregators. The other papers covered various article-level metrics topics from folks at PLOS, Mendeley, and more. Get our paper.

Consuming article-level metrics

Charles T. Gray

To give you an idea of where I am in my R developer germination, I’d just started reading about testing when I received an email from @rOpenSci inviting me to review the weathercan package. Many of us in the R community feel like imposters when it comes to software development. In fact, as a statistician, it was a surprise to me when I was recently called a developer.

An Ode to Testing, my first review

Steffi LaZerte

I love working with R and have been sharing the love with my friends and colleagues for almost seven years now.

Integrating data from weathercan

Hugo Gruson

Openscapes

Ruby Krasnow

🔗Context setting  rOpenSci organizes monthly co-working hours on a variety of topics.But the constant is the quality of the discussion that ensues and the renewed energy that comes from it. The November coworking session welcomed Stefanie Butland from Openscapes as a co-host.She shared Openscapes’ approach of “Forking as a worldview”.Forks in the open-source software world refer to copies of an existing open-source project that add their own

The Dynamic Relationship of Forks with their Upstream Repository

rOpenSci’s mission is to enable and support a thriving community of researchers who embrace open and reproducible research practices as part of their work. Since our inception, one of the mechanisms through which we have supported the community is by developing high-quality open source tools that lower barriers to working with scientific data.

Introducing the 2018 rOpenSci Research Fellows!

The drake R package is a pipeline toolkit. It manages data science workflows, saves time, and adds more confidence to reproducibility. I hope it will impact the landscapes of reproducible research and high-performance computing, but I originally created it for different reasons. This post is the prequel to drake’s inception. There was struggle, and drake was the answer. Dissertation frustration   My dissertation project was intense.

The prequel to the drake R package

Dan Sholler

We tend to know a good open source research software project when we see it: The code is well-documented, users contribute back to the project, the software is licensed and citable, and the community interacts and co-produces in a healthy, productive fashion.

Community Call Follow-up - Governance of Open Source Research Software Organizations

We’re very pleased to be introducing someone who needs no introduction in the R community.

Introducing Maëlle Salmon, rOpenSci’s new Research Software Engineer

Natalia Morandeira

rOpenSci’s activities and spaces are supported by a Code of Conductthat applies to all people participating in the rOpenSci community,including rOpenSci staff and leadership.It applies to all modes of interaction including GitHub project repositories,the rOpenSci discussion forum, Slack, Community Calls, Co-working and social sessions,and in person at rOpenSci-hosted events, including affiliated social gatherings.Our Code of Conduct is developed

We have great news: The call for applications to be part of the new cohort of our 2025 Program is now open! And for the first time it will be in Spanish! Our program seeks to identify, recognize and reward people who are leaders in an open science community, research software engineering and the R programming community. This year’s program is focused on people from Latin America and for the first time will be conducted entirely in Spanish.

rOpenSci Champions Program 2025: In Spanish!

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  🔗Open Science and Open Source only with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility  Including all of humanity is and always will be at the heart of open science.Read more about our mission in our blog post.

rOpenSci News Digest, February 2025

Pao Corrales

Elio Campitelli

Since 2022, rOpenSci has been developing tools and processes to localize and translate our content.As a result of this effort, we created a set of guidelines to assist our community in translating and localizing our resources.What started as an internal challenge has evolved into a collaborative blueprint that we believe can help transform how scientific resources are shared in a multilingual research landscape.

Introducing the rOpenSci Localization and Translation Guidelines

We are excited to announce that R-Universehas been named the R Consortium’s newest Top-Level Project!

R-Universe Named an R Consortium Top-Level Project

Thanksgiving is celebrated in many parts of the world.The USA, rOpenSci’s official location, celebrates Thanksgiving this Thursday, 28th November.Giving thanks to contributors is also an important part of open-source software development.Many open-source software projects use the allcontributors.org system to acknowledge contributions, which includes One strong motivation for allcontributors.org is to “Recognize all contributors, including those

Give Thanks with the allcontributors Package

Do you remember your first contribution to open source?Or are you still waiting to make it? Contributing to open source can be very rewarding, but also incredibly intimidating.When we asked about first time contributions on the rOpenSci Slack,people recalled the challenges and mistakes they made, but mostly how much they learned from and enjoyed that experience.For open source maintainers, contributions can also lead to mixed feelings,as

Looking for Maintainers to Support First-Time Contributors

Sam Albers

One of the best things about learning R is that no matter your skill level, there is always someone who can benefit from your experience. Topics in R ranging from complicated machine learning approaches to calculating a mean all find their relevant audiences. This is particularly true when writing R packages.

5 Things I Learned Making a Package to Work with Hydrometric Data in R

Kelly O'Briant

[This interview occurred at the 2017 rOpenSci unconference]  KO: What is your name, job title, and how long have you been using R?  KR: My name is Karthik Ram I’m a research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. I’m an ecologist by training but have been working in the ‘data science’ space for 15 years. My real introduction to R was during my PhD when I was a teaching assistant for an engineering class on data analysis.

.rprofile: Karthik Ram

Haydée Svab

Beatriz Milz

We designed the rOpenSci Champions Program with a mentorship aspect. Mentoring plays a significant role in the growth and development of both mentors and mentees alike.

rOpenSci Champions Program Teams: Meet Haydée Svab and Beatriz Milz

Mauro Lepore

Recently Yanina Bellini Saibene reminded usto update our Slack profile: After doing that I went on to updating my profile photos on the rOpenSciwebsite, which ended up teaching me a few git tricks I would like to share here.Thanks Maëlle Salmon for the encouragement, andSteffi LaZerte for reviewing this post.

Git Tricks for Working with Large Repositories

Dear rOpenSci community, This is a bit of a bittersweet announcement… After nearly 13 years, it’s time for me to step down as the Executive Director of rOpenSci. In the summer of 2011 I co-founded rOpenSci alongside a group of dedicated colleagues. What began as a casual collaboration among open science enthusiasts quickly evolved into something far more meaningful.

From the Founding Director: My Farewell to rOpenSci

rOpenSci’s second cohort of Champions has been onboarded!Their training first started with a session on code style, was followed by three sessions on the basics of R package development, and ended with a session on advanced R package development, which consisted of a potpourri of tips with discussion, followed by time for applying these principles to the participants’ packages.Here, I want to share one of the topics covered: Package testing, and

An Example of the DRY/DAMP Principles for Package Tests

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  🔗rOpenSci in the Research Organization Registry  rOpenSci was added to the Research Organization Registry (ROR) in its latest release. The ROR is  a global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research organizations.

rOpenSci News Digest, May 2024

We are excited to announce that R-Universe has been awarded a Google Season of Docs grant. R-Universe is rOpenSci’s platform for testing, building, distributing, and discovering R packages, led by Jeroen Ooms.

R-Universe Documentation Gets a Boost from Google Season of Docs

Joseph O'Brien

The package qualtRics maintained by Julia Silge together with Joseph O’Brien provides functions to access survey results directly into R using the Qualtrics API. Qualtrics is an online survey and data collection software platform. 🔗Help test or improve qualtRics! Are you a heavy user of the Qualtrics survey tooling in general, and of the qualtRics R package in particular? Then you can help build and test the package. 🔗How to help?

Help make qualtRics better! Code contributions wanted

Sébastien Rochette

Alejandra Bellini

Lucio Casalla

This is the second post of our interview series “Meeting the stars of the R-universe”. We aim to introduce the working groups and people behind the development of software and packages many of us use and which are available through the R-universe. We want to highlight and explore different teams and projects around the world, the work they do, their processes and users.

Meeting the Stars of the R-universe: ThinkR's Approach to Contributing to a Growing and Friendly R Community

Athanasia Mo Mowinckel

Joel Nitta

Many researchers are becoming more aware of the importance of reproducibility.Although reproducibility involves a diverse array of topics and tools, one rOpenSci package has gained considerable attention for enabling reproducible analysis pipelines in R: targets, by Will Landau. 🔗Why a targets workshop?

Teaching targets with Penguins

🔗Downloading repository snapshots  The new snapshot API lets you download a full copy of any CRAN-like repository on r-universe. You can use such a snapshot to mirror the entire CRAN-like repository on your own servers, or for example to build a stable, validated release of your package suite. The API endpoint is simply /api/snapshot and has several options to filter content.

Downloading snapshots and creating stable R packages repositories using r-universe

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.

What Does It Mean to Maintain a Package?

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.

Expanding our Community through Multilingual Publishing

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.

rOpenSci 2022 Code of Conduct Transparency Report

🔗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.

rOpenSci Champions Program Kick off

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  🔗One-page HTML package manuals on R-universe!  We have recently started building HTML reference manuals for each package in the R-universe! For packages that have had an update in the past 3 weeks, the reference manual is now linked from the package homepage on R-universe.dev.

rOpenSci News Digest, December 2022

Jeffrey Stevens

The online survey system Qualtrics can be a great way to collect data from research participants, customers, and stakeholders. I use it frequently to conduct research studies with participants or just to poll students and collaborators.

Working with Qualtrics Data - Part 1: Importing Data

David Ranzolin

Introduction   When I was in grad school at Emory, I had a favorite desk in the library. The desk wasn’t particularly cozy or private, but what it lacked in comfort it made up for in real estate. My books and I needed room to operate. Students of the ancient world require many tools, and when jumping between commentaries, lexicons, and interlinears, additional clutter is additional “friction”, i.e., lapses in thought due to frustration.

Exploratory Data Analysis of Ancient Texts with rperseus

I’ve raved about the value of extending a personalized welcome to new community members and I recently shared six tips for running a successful hackathon-flavoured unconference. Building on these, I’d like to share the specific approach and (free!) tools I used to help prepare new rOpenSci community members to be productive at our unconference.

The Value of Welcome, part 2: How to prepare 40 new community members for an unconference

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  🔗Community call: @ropensci-review-bot help!

rOpenSci News Digest, November 2021

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.

New package katex: rendering math to HTML and MathML in R

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  We have no less than three categories of (online 😉) events coming up: social co-working events, a community call, a conference with contributions from four rOpenSci staff members.

rOpenSci News Digest, May 2021

🔗Browsing articles on R-universe In the past weeks we have extended the R-universe build system and front-ends with some new features for publishing

 articles

. Articles can be used for documentation of R packages, but also for other purposes, such as reports, tutorials, papers, or research compendia.Publishing of articles in R-universe is based on the R vignette system, and we may add support for other types of articles later on. The

Publishing and browsing articles on R-universe

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.

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.

targets: Democratizing Reproducible Analysis Pipelines

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

Learn All About HTTP Testing: Book Update

Many people in our community actively contribute to rOpenSci projects.

Introducing the rOpenSci Community Contributing Guide

In 2024, we remained committed to open science and open source software.We continued to build a welcoming andinclusive community, through innovation and collaboration. Here are the highlights of the year: 🔗R-Universe  R-Universe, rOpenSci’s platform for finding and publishing R packages,saw major advancements in 2024,making it an increasingly useful and trusted resource for the wider R community.

rOpenSci 2024 Highlights

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.

rOpenSci 2020 Code of Conduct Transparency Report

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.

HTTP Testing With the Newest Release of vcr

Dennis Irorere

🔗Introduction  Few months ago, I embarked on a full stack spatial data project at work. The project kicked off amazingly, until I was almost backed to the wall when I discovered that some of the data sources were served via a GraphQL API. Before now, I haven’t worked with GraphQL. But, I have heard a lot about it and how amazing it is for querying data.

Accessing GraphQL from R

fulltext is a package I maintain for text-mining the scholarly literature (package docs). You can search for articles, fetch article metadata and abstracts, and fetch full text of some articles. Text-mining the scholarly literature is a research tool used across disciplines. Full text of articles (entire article, not just the abstract) is the gold standard in text-mining in most cases.

fulltext: Behind the Scenes

🔗Maintaining Community Trust and Safety  The rOpenSci community is supported by our Code of Conductwith 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.We are committed to transparency with our community

rOpenSci 2024 Code of Conduct Transparency Report

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.

Announcing New Software Peer Review Editors: Laura DeCicco, Julia Gustavsen, Mauro Lepore

Alex Koiter

🔗How it started  My journey in creating my first R package all started when I received an email from a colleague who was working with archived soil samples that were collected prior to the advent of GPS technology.These samples were georeferenced using the Manitoba Original Survey Legal Descriptions, which originate from the Dominion Land Survey system, introduced in the late 19th century to organize the European settlement and colonization of

Software Review, Perspectives from an Academic

🔗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.

2 Months in 2 Minutes - rOpenSci News, October 2020

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

The treedata.table Package

Zhang-He Goh

Jonny Coates

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.

Covidpreprints.com: Automating Website Updates with the europepmc and rAltmetric Packages

UPDATE: mapping functions are in a separate package now (mapr). Examples that do mapping below have been updated. The rOpenSci projects aims to provide programmatic access to scientific data repositories on the web. A vast majority of the packages in our current suite retrieve some form of biodiversity or taxonomic data.

Species occurrence data

🔗mapscanner  It is sometimes easy in the midst of the cutting-edge world of uniquesoftware development that is rOpenSci to forget that even though oursoftware might be freely available from anywhere in the world, access toadequate hardware is often restricted.

Rectifying Hand-Drawn Marks on Maps With the mapscanner Package

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.

Scientific Name Parsing: rgnparser and namext

Aaron Wolen

osfr provides a (

 hopefully

) convenient R interface to OSF (Open Science Framework, https://www.osf.io), a free service for managing research developed by the Center for Open Science (COS). osfr completed its rOpenSci peer-review earlier this year and has been available on CRAN since February.

OSF: A Project Management Service Built for Research

Matthias Grenié

Webinars and community calls are a great way to gather many people to discuss a specific topic, without the logistic hurdles of in-person events. But whether online or in-person, to reach the broadest audience, all events should work towards greater accessibility.

Community Captioning of rOpenSci Community Calls

Brooke Anderson

Robin Lovelace

Ben Marwick

Ben Raymond

Anton Van de Putte

Louise Slater

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically impacted all of our lives in a very short period of time.Spring and summer are usually very busy as students prepare to go the field to engage in various data collection efforts.The pandemic has also disrupted these carefully planned activities as travel is suspended and local and remote field stations have closed indefinitely.A lost field season can be a major setback for a dissertation timeline and

rOpenSci - open tools for open science

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