The package targets maintained by Will Landau, and its companion packages, are pipeline tools, that coordinate the pieces of computationally demanding analysis projects. 🔗 Help sustain targets discussion forums! Are you a routined user of the targets package and of more targetopia packages? How about helping answer users questions on the GitHub discussion and issue forums for these packages? This would help lighten the maintenance load of those packages, and you’d get to help other users directly....
The package assertr maintained by Tony Fischetti, provides functionality to assert conditions that have to be met so that errors in data used in analysis pipelines can fail quickly. The provided functionality is similar to stopifnot() but more powerful, friendly, and easier for use in pipelines. 🔗 Contributed to assertr! The assertr issue tracker has a few tickets that you could help with, please have a look. You can also subscribe to be notified of new issues opened in this repository....
Code of conduct transparency report; coworking; new packages and package news
rOpenSci’s second cohort of champions was onboarded! Their training started with a session on code style, which we will summarize here in this post. Knowing more about code quality is relevant to all Champion projects, be it creating a new package, submitting a package to software review, or reviewing a package. This training session consisted of a talk and discussion, whereas the next package development training sessions will be more hands-on....
A new package with bindings to libfluidsynth to read and synthesize midi files in R