Karthik Ram steps down as Executive Director after 13 years

• transitions
• leadership

Our first cohort of Champions complete the program. In this blog post, we share each champions projects, their achievements and outreach activities.

• community
• champions program

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 in particular, the DRY (“don’t repeat yourself”) and DAMP (“descriptive and meaningful phrases”) principles. For this topic, we used a GitHub repository, containing an R package whose different commits illustrate the two principles. In each step we’ll share a commit or diff illustrating the changes made....

• tech notes
• package development
• champions program
• how-to
• testing

Updates in version 0.9.0 of the online book ‘rOpenSci Packages: Development, Maintenance, and Peer Review’

• Software Peer Review
• dev guide
• multilingual

Now that you have created your package, presenting it to the world is a crucial step to gain visibility and attract users. In this blog post we suggest a series of activities and tools for advertizing your package.

• community
• maintenance
• package-development