At rOpenSci, we encourage R package developers to take advantage of Continuous Integration services to automatically check the package on different platforms, with different versions of R. The rOpenSci dev guide dedicates chapter 2 to the topic of Continuous Integration Best Practices, and recommends a few common CI vendors, including Travis CI. Travis CI has been a pioneer in free public CI services, and made the concept popular in the open-source community....

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• r-universe

Behind the scenes of getting article full text.

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• textmining
• fulltext
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• tech notes

Google’s amazing V8 JavaScript/WASM engine is probably one of the most sophisticated open-source software libraries available today. It is used to power the computation in Google Chrome, NodeJS, and also CloudFlare Workers, which make it possible to run code for your website inside the CDN edges. The R package V8 exposes this same engine in R, and has been on CRAN since 2014. It is used by many R packages to wrap JavaScript libraries, such as geojsonio, jsonld, DiagrammeR, or almanac....

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Together, the packages rentrez and taxize can extract standardised data on viruses and their hosts from genetic records.

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• taxonomy
• taxize
• epidemiology
• biology
• bioinformatics
• rentrez
• genbank
• genetics
• sars-cov-2
• covid-19

Introducing 3 new editors for rOpenSci software review

• Software Peer Review
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• rOpenSci team