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Labels For Technical Writing Projects

Greg Wilson

2024-09-24

Capturing Screenshots Programmatically With R

Maëlle Salmon

2024-09-24

Resources For Using R With Screen Readers

Liz Hare

2024-09-24

A fresh new look for R-universe!

Jeroen Ooms

2024-06-24

An Example of the DRY/DAMP Principles for Package Tests

Maëlle Salmon

2024-03-24

Help make qualtRics better! Code contributions wanted

Julia Silge, Joseph O'Brien, Maëlle Salmon

2024-03-24

Help users and developers of targets by answering questions!

Will Landau, Maëlle Salmon

2024-02-24

Help make assertr better! Come close issues

Tony Fischetti, Maëlle Salmon

2024-02-24

Beautiful Code, Because We’re Worth It!

Maëlle Salmon, Yanina Bellini Saibene

2024-02-24

Read and Play Digital Music (MIDI) in R using the *fluidsynth* package

Jeroen Ooms

2024-02-24

Help make waywiser better! User requests wanted

Mike Mahoney, Maëlle Salmon

2024-02-24

How to Update a Translation with Babeldown

Maëlle Salmon

2024-01-24

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

Jeroen Ooms

2024-01-24

R-universe now builds WASM binaries for all R packages

Jeroen Ooms

2023-11-23

Scanning QR codes in R

Jeroen Ooms

2023-10-23

How to Translate a Hugo Blog Post with Babeldown

Maëlle Salmon, Yanina Bellini Saibene

2023-09-23

New cran.dev shortlinks to package information and documentation

Jeroen Ooms

2023-07-23

Troubleshooting Pandoc Problems as an R User

Maëlle Salmon, Christophe Dervieux

2023-06-23

Downloading snapshots and creating stable R packages repositories using r-universe

Jeroen Ooms

2023-05-23

Scheduling Mastodon Posts in R with rtoot and GitHub Actions

Steffi LaZerte

2023-05-23

CRediTas is Now Part of rOpenSci

Josep Pueyo-Ros

2023-05-23

waywiser is Now a Part of rOpenSci

Mike Mahoney

2023-04-23

How r-universe searches for packages on CRAN / Bioconductor

Jeroen Ooms

2023-04-23

Discovering and learning everything there is to know about R packages using r-universe

Jeroen Ooms

2023-02-23

New preferred repo name for r-universe registries

Jeroen Ooms

2023-02-23

Dynamite for Causal Inference from Panel Data using Dynamic Multivariate Panel Models

Jouni Helske

2023-01-23

Improved permanent URL schema for r-universe.dev

Jeroen Ooms

2023-01-23

curl 5.0.0: massive concurrent downloads and HTTP/2

Jeroen Ooms

2023-01-23

How to Save ggplot2 Plots in a targets Workflow?

Matthias Grenié

2022-12-22

postdoc 1.0: minimal and uncluttered HTML package manuals

Jeroen Ooms

2022-11-22

Interesting Uses of censo2017 a Year After Publishing

Mauricio Vargas Sepúlveda

2022-10-22

Upgrading rtweet

Lluís Revilla Sancho

2022-07-22

Evaluating GitHub Activity for Contributors

Maëlle Salmon

2022-07-22

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

Maëlle Salmon, Mark Padgham, Karthik Ram

2022-05-22

Requiring 2FA for Our Main GitHub Organization

Maëlle Salmon

2022-05-22

Don't Lose your HEAD over Default Branches

Maëlle Salmon

2022-04-22

rsnps 0.5.0: New ncbi_snp_query() Features

Sina Rüeger, Julia Gustavsen

2022-03-22

Searching and browsing the R universe

Jeroen Ooms

2022-03-22

Safeguards and Backups for GitHub Organizations

Maëlle Salmon

2022-03-22

pkgcheck now available as a GitHub action!

Mark Padgham, Jacob Wujciak-Jens

2022-02-22

A Blend of Package Build Failures

Maëlle Salmon

2022-01-22

How renv restores packages from r-universe for reproducibility or production

Jeroen Ooms

2022-01-22

RSS feeds of package updates in r-universe

Jeroen Ooms

2021-11-21

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

Diego Hernangómez

2021-11-21

Generating and customizing badges in r-universe

Jeroen Ooms

2021-10-21

How to Use System Commands in your R Script or Package

Jeroen Ooms, Maëlle Salmon

2021-09-21

rOpenSci docs are now built on r-universe

Jeroen Ooms

2021-09-21

New package katex: rendering math to HTML and MathML in R

Jeroen Ooms

2021-07-21

How We Curate Our Monthly Newsletter

Maëlle Salmon

2021-06-21

How to create your personal CRAN-like repository on R-universe

Jeroen Ooms

2021-06-21

What's New in terrainr 0.4.0?

Mike Mahoney

2021-05-21

Publishing and browsing articles on R-universe

Jeroen Ooms

2021-04-21

A first look at the R-universe build infrastructure

Jeroen Ooms

2021-03-21

Behind the magick: updates to imagemagick and beyond

Jeroen Ooms

2021-01-21

HTTP Testing With the Newest Release of vcr

Scott Chamberlain

2020-12-20

Moving away from Travis CI

Jeroen Ooms

2020-11-20

fulltext: Behind the Scenes

Scott Chamberlain

2020-11-20

Installing V8 is now even easier

Jeroen Ooms

2020-11-20

Scientific Name Parsing: rgnparser and namext

Scott Chamberlain

2020-08-20

CRAN Checks API News: Documentation, Notifications, and More

Scott Chamberlain, Maëlle Salmon

2020-07-20

A better way to manage your Github personal access tokens

Jeroen Ooms

2020-07-20

Superior svg graphics rendering in R, and why it matters

Jeroen Ooms

2020-05-20

A Roundup of R Tools for Handling BibTeX

Maëlle Salmon

2020-05-20

Highlights of Hugo Code Highlighting

Maëlle Salmon

2020-04-20

Extracting eBird Data from a Polygon

Matthew Strimas-Mackey

2020-04-20

parzer: Parse Messy Geographic Coordinates

Scott Chamberlain

2020-03-20

Supercharge your GitHub Actions Experience with tic

Patrick Schratz

2020-03-20

opentripplanner: Fast and Easy Multimodal Trip Planning in R with OpenTripPlanner

Malcolm Morgan

2020-02-20

Working with audio in R using av

Jeroen Ooms

2020-02-20

We cleaned our website URLs with R!

Maëlle Salmon, Scott Chamberlain, Stefanie Butland

2019-12-19

HTTP testing in R: overview of tools and new features

Scott Chamberlain

2019-12-19

How to precompute package vignettes or pkgdown articles

Jeroen Ooms

2019-12-19

workloopR: Analysis of work loops and other data from muscle physiology experiments in R

Vikram B. Baliga

2019-11-19

cran checks API: an update

Scott Chamberlain

2019-10-19

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

Jeroen Ooms

2019-09-19

citecorp: working with open citations

Scott Chamberlain

2019-09-19

UCSCXenaTools: Retrieve Gene Expression and Clinical Information from UCSC Xena for Survival Analysis

Shixiang Wang

2019-09-19

Introducing the new rOpenSci docs server

Jeroen Ooms

2019-06-19

rodev: helpers for rOpenSci package authors

Maëlle Salmon

2019-05-19

Join, split, and compress PDF files with pdftools

Jeroen Ooms

2019-04-19

conditionz: control how many times conditions are thrown

Scott Chamberlain

2019-04-19

drake transformed

Will Landau

2019-03-19

handlr: convert among citation formats

Scott Chamberlain

2019-02-19

Bugfix release for the ssh package

Jeroen Ooms

2019-02-19

A Major Upgrade of the V8 package

Jeroen Ooms

2019-02-19

An even better rOpenSci website with Hugo

Maëlle Salmon

2019-01-19

Spelling 2.0: Improved Markdown and RStudio Support

Jeroen Ooms

2018-12-18

Pdftools 2.0: powerful pdf text extraction tools

Jeroen Ooms

2018-12-18

rnoaa: new data sources and NCDC units

Scott Chamberlain

2018-12-18

restez: Query GenBank locally

Dom Bennett

2018-12-18

Tesseract 4 is here! State of the art OCR in R!

Jeroen Ooms

2018-11-18

pubchunks: extract parts of scholarly XML articles

Scott Chamberlain

2018-10-18

Distinguish yourself in CRAN person() with ORCID

Maëlle Salmon

2018-10-18

The av Package: Production Quality Video in R

Jeroen Ooms

2018-10-18

tinkr: editing Markdown documents using XML tools

Maëlle Salmon

2018-10-18

All the Badges One Can Earn: Parsing Badges of CRAN Packages READMEs

Maëlle Salmon

2018-09-18

In praise of Commonmark: wrangle (R)Markdown files without regex

Maëlle Salmon

2018-09-18

rgbif: seven years of GBIF in R

Scott Chamberlain

2018-08-18

Mongolite 2.0: GridFS, connection pooling, and more

Jeroen Ooms

2018-08-18

phylotaR: Retrieve Orthologous Sequences from GenBank

Dom Bennett

2018-08-18

Gifski on CRAN: the fastest GIF encoder in the universe

Jeroen Ooms

2018-07-18

phylogram: dendrograms for evolutionary analysis

Shaun Wilkinson

2018-07-18

The ssh Package: Secure Shell (SSH) Client for R

Jeroen Ooms

2018-06-18

vcr: record and replay HTTP requests

Scott Chamberlain

2018-05-18

taxize: seven years of taxonomy in R

Scott Chamberlain

2018-05-18

drake's improved high-performance computing power

Will Landau

2018-05-18

icon: web icons for rmarkdown

Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

2018-05-18

Nomisr - Access Nomis UK Labour Market Data

Evan Odell

2018-05-18

webmockr: mock HTTP requests

Scott Chamberlain

2018-02-18

Support for hOCR and Tesseract 4 in R

Jeroen Ooms

2018-02-18

nodbi: the NoSQL Database Connector

Scott Chamberlain

2018-01-18

fulltext v1: text-mining scholarly works

Scott Chamberlain

2018-01-18

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

Jeroen Ooms

2017-12-17

solrium 1.0: Working with Solr from R

Scott Chamberlain

2017-11-17

Using Magick with RMarkdown and Shiny

Jeroen Ooms

2017-11-17

Image Convolution in R using Magick

Jeroen Ooms, Thomas Lin Pedersen

2017-11-17

Changes to Internet Connectivity in R on Windows

Jeroen Ooms

2017-10-17

The writexl package: zero dependency xlsx writer for R

Jeroen Ooms

2017-09-17

Spelling 1.0: quick and effective spell checking in R

Jeroen Ooms

2017-09-17

FedData - Getting assorted geospatial data into R

Kyle Bocinsky

2017-08-17

Tesseract and Magick: High Quality OCR in R

Jeroen Ooms

2017-08-17

elastic - Elasticsearch for R

Scott Chamberlain

2017-08-17

All the fake data that's fit to print

Scott Chamberlain

2017-06-17

Random GeoJSON and WKT with randgeo

Scott Chamberlain, Noam Ross

2017-04-17

ccafs - client for CCAFS General Circulation Models data

Scott Chamberlain

2017-03-17

Package evolution - changing stuff in your package

Scott Chamberlain

2017-01-17

Update jsonlite 1.2

Jeroen Ooms

2017-01-17

finch - parse Darwin Core files

Scott Chamberlain

2016-12-16

Announcing pdftools 1.0

Jeroen Ooms

2016-12-16

Tesseract Update: Options and Languages

Jeroen Ooms

2016-12-16

fauxpas - HTTP conditions package

Scott Chamberlain

2016-11-16

crul - an HTTP client

Scott Chamberlain

2016-11-16

Parse NOAA Integrated Surface Data Files

Scott Chamberlain

2016-11-16

Encryption and Digital Signatures in R using GPG

Jeroen Ooms

2016-10-16

Get air quality data for the United Kingdom using the rdefra package

Claudia Vitolo

2016-10-16

New package graphql: A GraphQL Query Parser

Jeroen Ooms

2016-10-16

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

Jeroen Ooms

2016-09-16

New in Magick 0.3

Jeroen Ooms

2016-09-16