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10 tips for newbies and experts around bookdown, and (R) project management.
parzer, a new package for parsing messy geographic coordinates.
tic simplifies CI tasks for R projects and now provides supercharged support for GitHub Actions. By enhancing the good work of r-lib/actions tic provides a DSL for R for CI tasks.
For this Community Call, we’re trying something different. We’ll start with a short talk by Julia Silge, then spend most of the time on Q & A with four panelists - Elin Waring, Erin Grand, Leonardo Collado-Torres, and Scott Chamberlain - moderated by Julia.
Our panelists bring a wide range of perspectives so there’s something for everyone. Collectively, they have experience developing and maintaining passion-project packages, very popular packages, too many packages on CRAN, packages on Bioconductor, and taking over maintenance (and changing things!) of a package developed by someone else.
...With services like Google Maps, finding the fastest route from A to B has become quick, cheap, and easy. Not just for driving but walking, cycling and public transport too. But in the field of transport studies, we often want not only a single route, but thousands or millions of routes. This is where we hit a problem for services such as Google or the Open Route Service, that usually only allow a limited number of free routes per day (typically around 1000). So routing is either very time consuming or expensive. Another problem is that we may not be interested in the current travel options, but how those options may change in the future. Such as, after a new bridge has been built or a new bus timetable has been introduced. Therefore, researchers can find it useful to run their own routing services where they have more control and can produce as many routes as necessary....
