The rOpenSci suite of packages is mainly composed of packages contributed by the community through peer-review, but also includes some packages maintained by staff.Over time, the commitments and availability of the original developers of a package can change. This leads to some maintainers stepping down from their maintainer role, or other maintainers looking to lower their workload through more teamwork and therefore looking for co-maintainers.
Why a Champions Program? Champion programs are designed to identify, recognize, and reward passionate community members. At rOpenSci, we recognize that there is a dismaying lack of diversity in the ecosystem of research software and open source communities. The R Community is no exception; its developers are overwhelmingly white, male, and from a handful of countries.
This blog post is intended to help you get started in rOpenSci community by highlighting some key links and activities. If you have questions, please get in touch with our Community Manager, Yanina Bellini Saibene by email or schedule a meeting. We are here for you as you begin your journey with our community. Welcome!Where do I get started? Glad you asked!
In the last post, we used the qualtRics 1 package to import survey data directly from Qualtrics accounts.I often use Qualtrics for survey data collected via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, which is an automated system that connects online respondents to paid surveys.However, sometimes those data are not super useful because the quality of the data is poor.In the anonymous, large-scale market of online survey respondents, the financial
The online survey system Qualtrics can be a great way to collect data from research participants, customers, and stakeholders. I use it frequently to conduct research studies with participants or just to poll students and collaborators.
Package yfR recently passed peer review at rOpenSci and is all about downloading stock price data from Yahoo Finance (YF). I wrote this package to solve a particular problem I had as a teacher: I needed a large volume of clean stock price data to use in my classes, either for explaining how financial markets work or for class exercises. While there are several R packages to import raw data from YF, none solved my problem.
We are pleased to announce the release of Version 2.4 of our Code of Conduct with changes based on the feedback of our community.What’s new? Greater detail about acceptable and unacceptable behaviors in online settings.First translation of the text to Spanish. You can access now the last version full-text in English and Spanish. We welcome your feedback by email to conduct at ropensci.org.
Hello! I am Yanina Bellini Saibene, your new community manager. I’m so excited to join rOpenSci in this role, and support such an important project in open science and in the R Community.
Zhiam Kamvar is Lesson Infrastructure Technology Developer at The Carpentries (Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry & Library Carpentry), an open global community teaching the skills &
I’m writing to share news that I’m moving on from my position as rOpenSci’s Community Manager. Friday, January 14th is my last day.Being rOpenSci’s first Community Manager has been my dream job. You have all given me such joy over the past 5.5 years.I love collaborating to create new things, so it’s time for me to step away and take some time to explore what might come next.
