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Labels For Technical Writing Projects

Greg Wilson

September 12, 2024
Capturing Screenshots Programmatically With R

Maëlle Salmon

September 10, 2024
Resources For Using R With Screen Readers

Liz Hare

September 5, 2024
A fresh new look for R-universe!

Jeroen Ooms

June 12, 2024
An Example of the DRY/DAMP Principles for Package Tests

Maëlle Salmon

March 18, 2024
Help make qualtRics better! Code contributions wanted

Julia Silge, Joseph O'Brien, Maëlle Salmon

March 1, 2024
Help users and developers of targets by answering questions!

Will Landau, Maëlle Salmon

February 29, 2024
Help make assertr better! Come close issues

Tony Fischetti, Maëlle Salmon

February 27, 2024
Beautiful Code, Because We’re Worth It!

Maëlle Salmon, Yanina Bellini Saibene

February 22, 2024
Read and Play Digital Music (MIDI) in R using the *fluidsynth* package

Jeroen Ooms

February 20, 2024
Help make waywiser better! User requests wanted

Mike Mahoney, Maëlle Salmon

February 19, 2024
How to Update a Translation with Babeldown

Maëlle Salmon

January 16, 2024
R-universe now builds MacOS ARM64 binaries for use on Apple Silicon (aka M1/M2/M3) systems

Jeroen Ooms

January 14, 2024
R-universe now builds WASM binaries for all R packages

Jeroen Ooms

November 17, 2023
Scanning QR codes in R

Jeroen Ooms

October 30, 2023
How to Translate a Hugo Blog Post with Babeldown

Maëlle Salmon, Yanina Bellini Saibene

September 26, 2023
New cran.dev shortlinks to package information and documentation

Jeroen Ooms

July 26, 2023
Troubleshooting Pandoc Problems as an R User

Maëlle Salmon, Christophe Dervieux

June 1, 2023
Downloading snapshots and creating stable R packages repositories using r-universe

Jeroen Ooms

May 31, 2023
Scheduling Mastodon Posts in R with rtoot and GitHub Actions

Steffi LaZerte

May 17, 2023
CRediTas is Now Part of rOpenSci

Josep Pueyo-Ros

May 16, 2023
waywiser is Now a Part of rOpenSci

Mike Mahoney

April 4, 2023
How r-universe searches for packages on CRAN / Bioconductor

Jeroen Ooms

April 3, 2023
Discovering and learning everything there is to know about R packages using r-universe

Jeroen Ooms

February 27, 2023
New preferred repo name for r-universe registries

Jeroen Ooms

February 7, 2023
Dynamite for Causal Inference from Panel Data using Dynamic Multivariate Panel Models

Jouni Helske

January 31, 2023
Improved permanent URL schema for r-universe.dev

Jeroen Ooms

January 30, 2023
curl 5.0.0: massive concurrent downloads and HTTP/2

Jeroen Ooms

January 13, 2023
How to Save ggplot2 Plots in a targets Workflow?

Matthias Grenié

December 6, 2022
postdoc 1.0: minimal and uncluttered HTML package manuals

Jeroen Ooms

November 29, 2022
Interesting Uses of censo2017 a Year After Publishing

Pachá (aka Mauricio Vargas Sepúlveda)

October 19, 2022
Upgrading rtweet

Lluís Revilla Sancho

July 21, 2022
Evaluating GitHub Activity for Contributors

Maëlle Salmon

July 1, 2022
Editorial Automation: Why & How to Set Up Chat-Ops for your Own Review System on GitHub

Maëlle Salmon, Mark Padgham, Karthik Ram

May 31, 2022
Requiring 2FA for Our Main GitHub Organization

Maëlle Salmon

May 16, 2022
Don't Lose your HEAD over Default Branches

Maëlle Salmon

April 29, 2022
rsnps 0.5.0: New ncbi_snp_query() Features

Sina Rüeger, Julia Gustavsen

March 29, 2022
Searching and browsing the R universe

Jeroen Ooms

March 23, 2022
Safeguards and Backups for GitHub Organizations

Maëlle Salmon

March 22, 2022
pkgcheck now available as a GitHub action!

Mark Padgham, Jacob Wujciak-Jens

February 1, 2022
A Blend of Package Build Failures

Maëlle Salmon

January 31, 2022
How renv restores packages from r-universe for reproducibility or production

Jeroen Ooms

January 6, 2022
RSS feeds of package updates in r-universe

Jeroen Ooms

November 24, 2021
How I Test cffr on (about) 2,000 Packages using GitHub Actions and R-universe

Diego Hernangómez

November 23, 2021
Generating and customizing badges in r-universe

Jeroen Ooms

October 14, 2021
How to Use System Commands in your R Script or Package

Jeroen Ooms, Maëlle Salmon

September 13, 2021
rOpenSci docs are now built on r-universe

Jeroen Ooms

September 3, 2021
New package katex: rendering math to HTML and MathML in R

Jeroen Ooms

July 13, 2021
How We Curate Our Monthly Newsletter

Maëlle Salmon

June 24, 2021
How to create your personal CRAN-like repository on R-universe

Jeroen Ooms

June 22, 2021
What's New in terrainr 0.4.0?

Mike Mahoney

May 4, 2021
Publishing and browsing articles on R-universe

Jeroen Ooms

April 9, 2021
A first look at the R-universe build infrastructure

Jeroen Ooms

March 4, 2021
Behind the magick: updates to imagemagick and beyond

Jeroen Ooms

January 29, 2021
HTTP Testing With the Newest Release of vcr

Scott Chamberlain

December 18, 2020
Moving away from Travis CI

Jeroen Ooms

November 19, 2020
fulltext: Behind the Scenes

Scott Chamberlain

November 17, 2020
Installing V8 is now even easier

Jeroen Ooms

November 12, 2020
Scientific Name Parsing: rgnparser and namext

Scott Chamberlain

August 25, 2020
CRAN Checks API News: Documentation, Notifications, and More

Scott Chamberlain, Maëlle Salmon

July 16, 2020
A better way to manage your Github personal access tokens

Jeroen Ooms

July 7, 2020
Superior svg graphics rendering in R, and why it matters

Jeroen Ooms

May 28, 2020
A Roundup of R Tools for Handling BibTeX

Maëlle Salmon

May 7, 2020
Highlights of Hugo Code Highlighting

Maëlle Salmon

April 30, 2020
Extracting eBird Data from a Polygon

Matthew Strimas-Mackey

April 16, 2020
parzer: Parse Messy Geographic Coordinates

Scott Chamberlain

March 19, 2020
Supercharge your GitHub Actions Experience with tic

Patrick Schratz

March 13, 2020
opentripplanner: Fast and Easy Multimodal Trip Planning in R with OpenTripPlanner

Malcolm Morgan

February 25, 2020
Working with audio in R using av

Jeroen Ooms

February 3, 2020
We cleaned our website URLs with R!

Maëlle Salmon, Scott Chamberlain, Stefanie Butland

December 19, 2019
HTTP testing in R: overview of tools and new features

Scott Chamberlain

December 11, 2019
How to precompute package vignettes or pkgdown articles

Jeroen Ooms

December 8, 2019
workloopR: Analysis of work loops and other data from muscle physiology experiments in R

Vikram B. Baliga

November 14, 2019
cran checks API: an update

Scott Chamberlain

October 9, 2019
Updates to the rOpenSci image suite: magick, tesseract, and av

Jeroen Ooms

September 27, 2019
citecorp: working with open citations

Scott Chamberlain

September 17, 2019
UCSCXenaTools: Retrieve Gene Expression and Clinical Information from UCSC Xena for Survival Analysis

Shixiang Wang

September 6, 2019
Introducing the new rOpenSci docs server

Jeroen Ooms

June 7, 2019
rodev: helpers for rOpenSci package authors

Maëlle Salmon

May 21, 2019
Join, split, and compress PDF files with pdftools

Jeroen Ooms

April 24, 2019
conditionz: control how many times conditions are thrown

Scott Chamberlain

April 24, 2019
drake transformed

Will Landau

March 18, 2019
handlr: convert among citation formats

Scott Chamberlain

February 27, 2019
Bugfix release for the ssh package

Jeroen Ooms

February 22, 2019
A Major Upgrade of the V8 package

Jeroen Ooms

February 11, 2019
An even better rOpenSci website with Hugo

Maëlle Salmon

January 9, 2019
Spelling 2.0: Improved Markdown and RStudio Support

Jeroen Ooms

December 20, 2018
Pdftools 2.0: powerful pdf text extraction tools

Jeroen Ooms

December 14, 2018
rnoaa: new data sources and NCDC units

Scott Chamberlain

December 4, 2018
restez: Query GenBank locally

Dom Bennett

December 3, 2018
Tesseract 4 is here! State of the art OCR in R!

Jeroen Ooms

November 6, 2018
pubchunks: extract parts of scholarly XML articles

Scott Chamberlain

October 16, 2018
Distinguish yourself in CRAN person() with ORCID

Maëlle Salmon

October 8, 2018
The av Package: Production Quality Video in R

Jeroen Ooms

October 6, 2018
tinkr: editing Markdown documents using XML tools

Maëlle Salmon

October 1, 2018
All the Badges One Can Earn: Parsing Badges of CRAN Packages READMEs

Maëlle Salmon

September 10, 2018
In praise of Commonmark: wrangle (R)Markdown files without regex

Maëlle Salmon

September 5, 2018
rgbif: seven years of GBIF in R

Scott Chamberlain

August 22, 2018
Mongolite 2.0: GridFS, connection pooling, and more

Jeroen Ooms

August 14, 2018
phylotaR: Retrieve Orthologous Sequences from GenBank

Dom Bennett

August 8, 2018
Gifski on CRAN: the fastest GIF encoder in the universe

Jeroen Ooms

July 23, 2018
phylogram: dendrograms for evolutionary analysis

Shaun Wilkinson

July 12, 2018
The ssh Package: Secure Shell (SSH) Client for R

Jeroen Ooms

June 12, 2018
vcr: record and replay HTTP requests

Scott Chamberlain

May 25, 2018
taxize: seven years of taxonomy in R

Scott Chamberlain

May 23, 2018
drake's improved high-performance computing power

Will Landau

May 18, 2018
icon: web icons for rmarkdown

Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

May 15, 2018
Nomisr - Access Nomis UK Labour Market Data

Evan Odell

May 8, 2018
webmockr: mock HTTP requests

Scott Chamberlain

February 20, 2018
Support for hOCR and Tesseract 4 in R

Jeroen Ooms

February 14, 2018
nodbi: the NoSQL Database Connector

Scott Chamberlain

January 25, 2018
fulltext v1: text-mining scholarly works

Scott Chamberlain

January 17, 2018
Magick 1.6: clipping, geometries, fonts, fuzz, and a bit of history

Jeroen Ooms

December 5, 2017
solrium 1.0: Working with Solr from R

Scott Chamberlain

November 8, 2017
Using Magick with RMarkdown and Shiny

Jeroen Ooms

November 7, 2017
Image Convolution in R using Magick

Jeroen Ooms, Thomas Lin Pedersen

November 2, 2017
Changes to Internet Connectivity in R on Windows

Jeroen Ooms

October 10, 2017
The writexl package: zero dependency xlsx writer for R

Jeroen Ooms

September 8, 2017
Spelling 1.0: quick and effective spell checking in R

Jeroen Ooms

September 7, 2017
FedData - Getting assorted geospatial data into R

Kyle Bocinsky

August 24, 2017
Tesseract and Magick: High Quality OCR in R

Jeroen Ooms

August 17, 2017
elastic - Elasticsearch for R

Scott Chamberlain

August 2, 2017
All the fake data that's fit to print

Scott Chamberlain

June 22, 2017
Random GeoJSON and WKT with randgeo

Scott Chamberlain, Noam Ross

April 20, 2017
ccafs - client for CCAFS General Circulation Models data

Scott Chamberlain

March 1, 2017
Package evolution - changing stuff in your package

Scott Chamberlain

January 5, 2017
Update jsonlite 1.2

Jeroen Ooms

January 4, 2017
finch - parse Darwin Core files

Scott Chamberlain

December 23, 2016
Announcing pdftools 1.0

Jeroen Ooms

December 9, 2016
Tesseract Update: Options and Languages

Jeroen Ooms

December 8, 2016
fauxpas - HTTP conditions package

Scott Chamberlain

November 18, 2016
crul - an HTTP client

Scott Chamberlain

November 9, 2016
Parse NOAA Integrated Surface Data Files

Scott Chamberlain

November 3, 2016
Encryption and Digital Signatures in R using GPG

Jeroen Ooms

October 19, 2016
Get air quality data for the United Kingdom using the rdefra package

Claudia Vitolo

October 6, 2016
New package graphql: A GraphQL Query Parser

Jeroen Ooms

October 5, 2016
Hunspell 2.0: High-Performance Stemmer, Tokenizer, and Spell Checker for R

Jeroen Ooms

September 12, 2016
New in Magick 0.3

Jeroen Ooms

September 8, 2016