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You can find members of the rOpenSci team at various meetings and workshops around the world. Come say ‘hi’, learn about how our packages can enable your research, or about our onboarding process for contributing new packages, discuss software sustainability or tell us how we can help you do open and reproducible research....
A new package isdparser is
on CRAN. isdparser was in part liberated from rnoaa,
then improved. We’ll use isdparser in rnoaa soon.
isdparser does not download files for you from NOAA’s ftp servers. The
package focuses on parsing the files, which are variable length ASCII strings
stored line by line, where each line has some mandatory data, and any amount
of optional data.
The data is great, and includes for example, wind speed and direction, temperature, cloud data, sea level pressure, and more. Includes data from approximately 35,000 stations worldwide, though best coverage is in North America/Europe/Australia. Data go all the way back to 1901, and are updated daily.
...In order to facilitate a transformation towards open and reproducible research, rOpenSci is building and improving not only the technical infrastructure, but the social infrastructure as well. To support this, occasionally a Community Call will focus on a topic that reflects the values of rOpenSci. The first of these, on Thursday, December 15th, 8-9 AM PST, will be on “How do I create a code of conduct for my event/lab/codebase?”....
A new package gpg has appeared on CRAN. From the package description:
Bindings to GnuPG for working with OpenGPG (RFC4880) cryptographic methods. Includes utilities for public key encryption, creating and verifying digital signatures, and managing your local keyring. Note that some functionality depends on the version of GnuPG that is installed on the system. In particular GnuPG 2 mandates the use of ‘gpg-agent’ for entering passphrases, which only works if R runs in a terminal session.
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I feel both proud and privileged to join rOpenSci as your Community Manager. I’ve been a compulsive community builder since the early 2000’s, but it has rarely been part of my job description. Now it seems like all roads have led to this. After a couple of fine days of indoctrination at the UC Berkeley home of rOpenSci, I’m settled into work in beautiful Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
So much of my perspective of rOpenSci comes from being a newcomer. I was impressed with the funding from three major grants (you must be doing a few things right!), @ropensci having nearly 11,000 followers on Twitter, the awesome staff, leadership team and advisory board, growing from one full time person to four (with two more positions to open up), and having an enthusiastic community that is known for helping each other out and getting things done.
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