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Using the deposits and frictionless packages to create FAIR data for a complex project

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Greg discusses the challenges of organizing non-software projects in GitHub and shares the label system he uses for technical writing projects like books and lessons.

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As part of our work documenting R-Universe, we’re adding screenshots of the interface to the documentation website. Taking screenshots manually could quickly become very cumbersome, especially as we expect they’ll need updating in future: we might want to change the universes we feature, the interface might improve yet again and therefore look slightly different. Therefore, we decided to opt for a programmatic approach. In this post we shall present our learnings from using the R packages chromote and magick to produce screenshots....

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