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Don’t Lose your HEAD over Default Branches

Use “HEAD” instead of the default branch name in links to files on GitHub, as it will work for any default branch name.

rOpenSci News Digest, April 2022

R-universe individual package pages, co-working, pkgcheck, new packages and package news

Editorial Challenges and Solutions in Software Peer Review

Challenges encountered by editors, and the measures we’ve taken to try to alleviate said problems.

rsnps 0.5.0: New ncbi_snp_query() Features

ncbi_snp_query() now returns all reported variant allele frequencies in dbSNP.

Searching and browsing the R universe

We made a series of structural improvements in r-universe to make it easier to browse and discover interesting R packages and articles. Most notably, the landing page has been overhauled: you can now search directly for any name or keyword across the entire ecosystem

Working together to push science forward

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