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Upcoming community calls: R-universe Project, Set Up Your Package to Foster a Community; co-working labelathon; New Package and Package News
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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.
...R-universe page, Statistical software review comm call, new packages and package news.
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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