Semi-monthly summary of the rOpenSci Newsletter, June 2020
This week we released a major new version of the rsvg package on CRAN. This package provides R bindings to librsvg2 which is a powerful system library for rendering svg images into bitmaps that can be displayed, or use for further processing in for example the magick package. The biggest change in this release is the R package on Windows and MacOS now includes the latest librsvg 2.48.4. This is a major upgrade; the librsvg2 rendering engine has been completely rewritten in Rust 1 using components from Mozilla Servo....
Open data for your research when you can't get to the lab or field
Some tips around the use of citations/references in R Markdown, in particular with RefManageR
Explanations around code highlighting in Hugo websites, based on Markdown or R Markdown.