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Thank You to the rOpenSci Community, 2020

A list of thank you’s to 100s of rOpenSci community members!

Accessing GraphQL from R

Ever tried interacting with a GraphQL server in R and felt like giving up even before getting anywhere? Well, I have been there and I wrote this blog post to assist others.

Moving away from Travis CI

At rOpenSci, we encourage R package developers to take advantage of Continuous Integration services to automatically check the package on different platforms, with different versions of R. The rOpenSci dev guide dedicates chapter 2 to the topic of Continuous Integration Best Practices, and recommends a few common CI vendors, including Travis CI.

Travis CI has been a pioneer in free public CI services, and made the concept popular in the open-source community. The service started to get wide adoption in 2012, and native support for R was added by Craig Citro in 2015, with more contributions from current maintainers Jim Hester and later Jeroen. In 2016 we wrote a blog post about using a build-matrix in order to check your packages on multiple versions of Linux and MacOS, which is super powerful for R package development.

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