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Have you been thinking that you should probably start using a style guide? No, i don’t mean a fashion guru! I mean following a guide to help maintain code formatted similarly across all functions and scripts. Consistent white space, consistent indentations in conditional statements and for loops. Code formatted exactly the same way ALL the time?
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Maintaining multiple GitHub repos is rewarding until you’re stuck deciphering a flood of disorganized issues and PRs. Eventually, the lack of standard formatting becomes a major bottleneck for any productive workflow. You’d like to see a consistent format for all issues and pull requests! Templates are what you have been looking for!
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So you want to create an R package? Well there are a ton of resources available to help with this, the best being the official book from the Posit folks, R Packages (2e). However, after the initial set up, organization, and implementation of the package there are several other related components you should think about including to make it function, look, and feel polished!
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You’ve reached the point in which you want to officially start to version your R package. How do you go about doing this? When should you version? How often? What versioning scheme should you use? How do you document the changes?
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Do you find yourself downloading data from a server over and over again to make sure you have the latest data? Then struggle to work out what’s changed from the last time you downloaded it?
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Scenario: You have a repository in which you’ve been using for a while. You use it for your scientific work and have published papers based on it. However, you never created releases of the repo corresponding to each publication and now you have no way of reproducing the work used in your publications. What can you do?
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When using any type of versioning software, either collaboratively or not, there are a few best practices that should be followed regarding branching strategies. This will be a short and sweet entry. No fluff!
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Simply put, cron jobs are jobs/tasks (pieces of executable code, on Linux or Mac) that are run on a predefined schedule. For example,
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If you are an R package developer, and you host your code on GitHub, there a few tasks that you will need to do repeatedly to ensure user experience is pleasant and that your code is stable.
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Markdown for GitHub is the language of choice when creating issues, pull requests, using discussions, or editing your README file on GitHub.
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Have you been thinking that you should probably start using a style guide? No, i don’t mean a fashion guru! I mean following a guide to help maintain code formatted similarly across all functions and scripts. Consistent white space, consistent indentations in conditional statements and for loops. Code formatted exactly the same way ALL the time?
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Many publicly available scientific datasets from around the world can be found on servers supported by ERDDAP™ (Environmental Research Division’s Data Access Program). Many organizations, like government agencies and universities, run their own ERDDAP™ servers and host oceanographic and environmental datasets.
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What is an ORCID iD? Should you get one? What can you do with it? If you are a researcher or a scholar it might be worth you signing up for one. Here’s why …
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So you want to create an R package? Well there are a ton of resources available to help with this, the best being the official book from the Posit folks, R Packages (2e). However, after the initial set up, organization, and implementation of the package there are several other related components you should think about including to make it function, look, and feel polished!
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You’ve reached the point in which you want to officially start to version your R package. How do you go about doing this? When should you version? How often? What versioning scheme should you use? How do you document the changes?
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The official site for Semantic versioning is available in many languages indicating, in part, how important this subject is across the world for software development. It provides a clear, standardized way to communicate the nature of changes between releases, which helps manage dependencies and predict the impact of updates. By using a version format like MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, developers indicate whether an update is a backwards-incompatible breaking change (MAJOR), a new backwards-compatible feature (MINOR), or a backwards-compatible bug fix (PATCH).
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Do you find yourself downloading data from a server over and over again to make sure you have the latest data? Then struggle to work out what’s changed from the last time you downloaded it?
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Error handling is not something scientists typically incorporate into their code. However, there a situations in which incorporating such a thing can save you hours of headache!
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When using any type of versioning software, either collaboratively or not, there are a few best practices that should be followed regarding branching strategies. This will be a short and sweet entry. No fluff!
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Simply put, cron jobs are jobs/tasks (pieces of executable code, on Linux or Mac) that are run on a predefined schedule. For example,
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As some point in your career you’ll find yourself needing to parse large amounts of alpha numeric data and selecting sections which match certain string patterns. For example, maybe you are parsing the contents of a webpage looking for hyperlinks, or summarizing the contents of a log file, or searching for values of parameters in a file heavy with text.
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If you are an R package developer, and you host your code on GitHub, there a few tasks that you will need to do repeatedly to ensure user experience is pleasant and that your code is stable.
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Yes, i know, you love using the library() function in R! But it can be a real problem for several reasons:
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The DESCRIPTION file is a necessary staple for all R packages. Among other things (which we won’t get into, since this isn’t a post about creating R packages) it is the location for you to list all dependencies of your package. So when your package is installed the user also gets all the dependent packages installed too! Nice and tidy!
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Regardless of the language you are coding in, at some point, there will come a time when you just need to ask for help. When you do, you should always include a reproducible example to help explain your problem. Failing to do so will just irritate readers and limit the number of helpful responses.
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As some point in your career you’ll find yourself needing to parse large amounts of alpha numeric data and selecting sections which match certain string patterns. For example, maybe you are parsing the contents of a webpage looking for hyperlinks, or summarizing the contents of a log file, or searching for values of parameters in a file heavy with text.
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So you have just built your first docker image (or podman image, but more about that in a minute). And it runs! And you are excited! So you start to tell people how cool you are, that you can run “stuff” inside a container. But then are quickly brought back down to earth when you realize that you don’t know how move this image to other platforms, like the cloud. It resides “somewhere” on your local machine, in a location that isn’t obvious.
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Containers aren’t new, but to the scientific community (as of writing), they kinda are! So what are containers? Well, simply put, they are a running instance of an image! Oh Right … totally get it!
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So you have just built your first docker image (or podman image, but more about that in a minute). And it runs! And you are excited! So you start to tell people how cool you are, that you can run “stuff” inside a container. But then are quickly brought back down to earth when you realize that you don’t know how move this image to other platforms, like the cloud. It resides “somewhere” on your local machine, in a location that isn’t obvious.
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Containers aren’t new, but to the scientific community (as of writing), they kinda are! So what are containers? Well, simply put, they are a running instance of an image! Oh Right … totally get it!
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Have you been thinking that you should probably start using a style guide? No, i don’t mean a fashion guru! I mean following a guide to help maintain code formatted similarly across all functions and scripts. Consistent white space, consistent indentations in conditional statements and for loops. Code formatted exactly the same way ALL the time?
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Scenario: You have a repository in which you’ve been using for a while. You use it for your scientific work and have published papers based on it. However, you never created releases of the repo corresponding to each publication and now you have no way of reproducing the work used in your publications. What can you do?
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We’ve all done it, you’ll be happily commiting and pushing to GitHub from either the command line or, more than likely, your favorite IDE when you panic and realize that you just mistakenly pushed something to GitHub. You start sweating, and frenetically start googling how to reverse this. Well it turns out it is pretty simple.
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Maintaining multiple GitHub repos is rewarding until you’re stuck deciphering a flood of disorganized issues and PRs. Eventually, the lack of standard formatting becomes a major bottleneck for any productive workflow. You’d like to see a consistent format for all issues and pull requests! Templates are what you have been looking for!
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Markdown for GitHub is the language of choice when creating issues, pull requests, using discussions, or editing your README file on GitHub.
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So you have just built your first docker image (or podman image, but more about that in a minute). And it runs! And you are excited! So you start to tell people how cool you are, that you can run “stuff” inside a container. But then are quickly brought back down to earth when you realize that you don’t know how move this image to other platforms, like the cloud. It resides “somewhere” on your local machine, in a location that isn’t obvious.
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Containers aren’t new, but to the scientific community (as of writing), they kinda are! So what are containers? Well, simply put, they are a running instance of an image! Oh Right … totally get it!
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So you want to create an R package? Well there are a ton of resources available to help with this, the best being the official book from the Posit folks, R Packages (2e). However, after the initial set up, organization, and implementation of the package there are several other related components you should think about including to make it function, look, and feel polished!
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You’ve reached the point in which you want to officially start to version your R package. How do you go about doing this? When should you version? How often? What versioning scheme should you use? How do you document the changes?
Published:
The official site for Semantic versioning is available in many languages indicating, in part, how important this subject is across the world for software development. It provides a clear, standardized way to communicate the nature of changes between releases, which helps manage dependencies and predict the impact of updates. By using a version format like MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, developers indicate whether an update is a backwards-incompatible breaking change (MAJOR), a new backwards-compatible feature (MINOR), or a backwards-compatible bug fix (PATCH).
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What is an ORCID iD? Should you get one? What can you do with it? If you are a researcher or a scholar it might be worth you signing up for one. Here’s why …
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So you want to create an R package? Well there are a ton of resources available to help with this, the best being the official book from the Posit folks, R Packages (2e). However, after the initial set up, organization, and implementation of the package there are several other related components you should think about including to make it function, look, and feel polished!
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You’ve reached the point in which you want to officially start to version your R package. How do you go about doing this? When should you version? How often? What versioning scheme should you use? How do you document the changes?
Published:
Do you find yourself downloading data from a server over and over again to make sure you have the latest data? Then struggle to work out what’s changed from the last time you downloaded it?
Published:
When using any type of versioning software, either collaboratively or not, there are a few best practices that should be followed regarding branching strategies. This will be a short and sweet entry. No fluff!
Published:
Simply put, cron jobs are jobs/tasks (pieces of executable code, on Linux or Mac) that are run on a predefined schedule. For example,
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If you are an R package developer, and you host your code on GitHub, there a few tasks that you will need to do repeatedly to ensure user experience is pleasant and that your code is stable.