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Noam Ross takes the helm as rOpenSci’s new Executive Director
Karthik Ram steps down as Executive Director after 13 years
Our first cohort of Champions complete the program. In this blog post, we share each champions projects, their achievements and outreach activities.
rOpenSci’s second cohort of Champions has been onboarded! Their training first started with a session on code style, was followed by three sessions on the basics of R package development, and ended with a session on advanced R package development, which consisted of a potpourri of tips with discussion, followed by time for applying these principles to the participants’ packages. Here, I want to share one of the topics covered: Package testing, and in particular, the DRY (“don’t repeat yourself”) and DAMP (“descriptive and meaningful phrases”) principles....
Updates in version 0.9.0 of the online book ‘rOpenSci Packages: Development, Maintenance, and Peer Review’
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