🔗 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....

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R-universe page, Statistical software review comm call, new packages and package news.

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Summary of the Community Call on Statistical Software Testing and Peer Review

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🔗 The R-universe build system The R-universe system is a complex effort, consisting of numerous frontend and backend pieces that operate across various platforms. A key challenge in developing such a system is managing overall complexity by finding ways to reduce the problem into smaller, loosely coupled components, which can be thought of, and developed, somewhat independently. A lot of the early work on R-universe has gone into iterating with designs to gradually build up such a system in a way that is robust and scalable, while keeping complexity under control....

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Updates in version 0.6.0 of the online book ‘rOpenSci Packages: Development, Maintenance, and Peer Review rOpenSci Packages: Development, Maintenance, and Peer Review’

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