index.Rmd

---
title: 'rOpenSci News Digest, March 2024'
author: 'The rOpenSci Team'
date: '2024-03-29'
tags:
  - newsletter
slug: ropensci-news-march-2024
description: Leadership changes at rOpenSci, multilingual dev guide, new packages and package news
params:
  last_newsletter: "2024-02-23"
---


```{r setup, include=FALSE}
library("magrittr")
library("rlang")
last_newsletter <- anytime::anytime(params$last_newsletter)
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE)
url <- sprintf(
    "/blog/%s/%s/%s/%s",
    lubridate::year(rmarkdown::yaml_front_matter(knitr::current_input())$date),
    stringr::str_pad(lubridate::month(rmarkdown::yaml_front_matter(knitr::current_input())$date), 2, "0", side = "left"),
    stringr::str_pad(lubridate::day(rmarkdown::yaml_front_matter(knitr::current_input())$date), 2, "0", side = "left"),
    rmarkdown::yaml_front_matter(knitr::current_input())$slug
    )
english <- function(x) {
  as.character(english::english(x))
}

nice_string <- function(...) {
  if (length(...) == 2) {
    return(paste(c(...), collapse = " and "))
  }
  glue::glue_collapse(..., sep = ", ", last = ", and ")
}
```
<!-- Before sending DELETE THE INDEX_CACHE and re-knit! -->

Dear rOpenSci friends, it's time for our monthly news roundup!
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You can read this post [on our blog](`r url`).
Now let's dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci!

## rOpenSci HQ

### Leadership changes at rOpenSci

After 13 years at the helm of rOpenSci, our founding executive director Karthik Ram is stepping down. 
Noam Ross, rOpenSci's current lead for peer review, will be our new Executive Director.  
Karthik will remain a key advisor to rOpenSci. 
We thank him for his years of leadership and service to the community!

Read [Karthik's farewell post](/blog/2024/03/29/from-the-founding-director-my-farewell-to-ropensci/), and [Noam's post about his new role](/blog/2024/03/29/hello-from-our-new-executive-director/)  on our blog

### rOpenSci Dev Guide 0.9.0: Multilingual Now! And Better

We're delighted to announce we've released a new version of our guide,
["rOpenSci Packages: Development, Maintenance, and Peer Review"](https://devguide.ropensci.org/)!

A highlight is that our guide is now bilingual (English and [Spanish](https://devguide.ropensci.org/es/index.es.html)), thanks to work by [Yanina Bellini Saibene](/author/yanina-bellini-saibene/), [Elio Campitelli](/author/elio-campitelli/) and [Pao Corrales](/author/pao-corrales/), and thanks to [support of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, NumFOCUS, and the R Consortium](/blog/2023/01/12/multilingual-publishing-en/).
[Read the guide in Spanish](https://devguide.ropensci.org/es/index.es.html).

Our guide is now also getting translated to [Portuguese](/blog/2023/10/20/news-october-2023/#help-us-translate-our-dev-guide-to-portuguese) thanks to volunteers.
We are very grateful for their work!

Read more in the [blog post about the release](/blog/2024/03/11/devguide-0.9.0/).
Thanks to all contributors who made this release possible.

### Interview with Code for Thought podcast

Our community manager, Yanina Bellini Saibene, talked with Peter Schmidt of the [Code for Thought podcast](https://codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/14660478-en-crossing-the-language-barrier-yanina-saibene), about the importance of making computing materials accessible to non-English speaking learners. 
Listen to the [episode](https://codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/14660478-en-crossing-the-language-barrier-yanina-saibene).
Find our more about [rOpenSci multilingual publishing project](/multilingual-publishing/).

### Coworking

Read [all about coworking](/blog/2023/06/21/coworking/)!

Join us for social coworking & office hours monthly on first Tuesdays! 
Hosted by Steffi LaZerte and various community hosts. 
Everyone welcome. 
No RSVP needed. 
Consult our [Events](/events) page to find your local time and how to join.

- [Tuesday, April 2nd, 14:00 Europe Central (13:00 UTC)](/events/coworking-2024-04), Sharing your work with Quarto. With cohost [Pao Corrales](/author/pao-corrales) and [Steffi LaZerte](/author/steffi-lazerte).
    - Explore the Quarto documentation and examples
    - Use Quarto to share some of your code
    - Ask questions or troubleshoot your Quarto problems with the cohost and other attendees.

- [Tuesday, May 7th, 09:00 Americas Pacific (16:00 UTC)](/events/coworking-2024-05), Meet rOpenSci's new Executive Director! With cohost [Noam Ross](/author/noam-ross) and [Steffi LaZerte](/author/steffi-lazerte).
    - Learn more about rOpenSci!
    - Explore rOpenSci [packages](/packages) and [contributing guide](https://contributing.ropensci.org/)
    - Ask questions or chat about rOpensci with Noam and other attendees.
    
And remember, you can always cowork independently on work related to R, work on packages that tend to be neglected, or work on what ever you need to get done!


## Software :package:

### New packages

```{r new-packages, cache = TRUE}
cran_unquote <- function(string) {
  gsub("\\'(.*?)\\'", "\\1", string)
}
tidy_package <- function(entry) {
  tibble::tibble(
    package = entry$name,
    description = cran_unquote(entry$description),
    details = cran_unquote(entry$details),
    on_cran = entry$on_cran,
    on_bioc = entry$on_bioc,
    onboarding = entry$onboarding,
    url = entry$url,
    maintainer = entry$maintainer # use desc for more info
    
  )
}

registry <- "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ropensci/roregistry/gh-pages/registry.json" %>%
  jsonlite::read_json() %>%
  purrr::pluck("packages") %>%
  purrr::map_df(tidy_package)
  
since <- lubridate::as_date(last_newsletter) - 1
until <- lubridate::as_date(last_newsletter) + 1
commits <- gh::gh(
  "GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/commits",
  owner = "ropensci",
  repo = "roregistry",
  since = sprintf(
    "%s-%s-%sT00:00:00Z",
    lubridate::year(since),
    stringr::str_pad(lubridate::month(since), 2, "0", side = "left"),
    stringr::str_pad(lubridate::day(since), 2, "0", side = "left")
  ),
  until = sprintf(
    "%s-%s-%sT00:00:00Z",
    lubridate::year(until),
    stringr::str_pad(lubridate::month(until), 2, "0", side = "left"),
    stringr::str_pad(lubridate::day(until), 2, "0", side = "left")
  )
)

empty <- TRUE
i <- length(commits)
while (empty == TRUE) {
  old <- "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ropensci/roregistry/%s/packages.json" %>%
    sprintf(commits[[i]]$sha) %>%
    jsonlite::read_json() %>%
    purrr::map_df(function(x) tibble::tibble(package = x$package, url = x$url, branch = x$branch))
  i <- i - 1
  if (nrow(old) > 100) {
    empty <- FALSE
  }
}

old <- dplyr::filter(
  old,
  !grepl("ropenscilabs\\/", url),
  !grepl("ropensci-archive\\/", url)
)

new <- dplyr::filter(
  registry,
  !package %in% c("rvertnet", old$package),
  !grepl("ropenscilabs\\/", url),
  !grepl("ropensci-archive\\/", url)
)
```


The following `r if(nrow(new)>1) english(nrow(new))` package`r if(nrow(new)>1) "s"` recently became a part of our software suite, or were recently reviewed again:

```{r, results='asis', cache = TRUE}
packages <- split(new, seq(nrow(new)))
present_one <- function(package) {
  url_parts <- urltools::url_parse(package$url)
  desc_link <- gh::gh(
    "/repos/{owner}/{repo}/contents/{path}",
    owner = strsplit(url_parts$path, "\\/")[[1]][1],
    repo = strsplit(url_parts$path, "\\/")[[1]][2],
    path = "DESCRIPTION"
  ) %>%
    purrr::pluck("download_url")
  withr::with_tempfile(
    "tf", {
      download.file(desc_link, tf) 
      desc <<- desc::desc(file = tf)
    }
  )
  # as in pkgdown
  authors <- unclass(desc$get_authors())
  aut <- purrr::keep(authors, function(x) {any( x$role %in% "aut") && all(x$role != "cre") })
  aut <- purrr::map_chr(aut, function(x) paste(x$given, x$family))
  rev <- purrr::keep(authors, function(x) {any( x$role %in% "rev") && all(x$role != "cre") })
  rev <- purrr::map_chr(rev, function(x) paste(x$given, x$family))
  maintainer <- purrr::keep(authors, function(x) {any( x$role %in% "cre") })
  maintainer <- paste(c(maintainer[[1]]$given, maintainer[[1]]$family), collapse = " ")
  
  author_string <- sprintf("developed by %s", maintainer)
  
  if (length(aut) > 0) {
    author_string <- paste0(author_string, sprintf(" together with %s", nice_string(aut)))
  } 
  
  string <- sprintf(
    "[%s](https://docs.ropensci.org/%s), %s: %s. ",
    package$package, 
    package$package, 
    author_string,
    sub(
      "DPIRD weather data are accessed.*",
      "",
      stringr::str_remove(stringr::str_squish(package$details), "\\.$")
    )
  )
  
  if (package$on_cran) {
    string <- paste0(
      string, 
      sprintf(
        " It is available on [CRAN]( https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=%s). ",
        package$package
      )
    )
  }
  if (package$on_bioc) {
    string <- paste0(
      string, sprintf(
        " It is available on [Bioconductor](https://bioconductor.org/packages/%s/). ",
        package$package
      )
    )
  }
  if (nzchar(package$onboarding)) {
    string <- 
    sub(
      "\\. \\. ",
      ". ",
      paste0(string, sprintf("It has been [reviewed](%s)", package$onboarding))
    )
    if (length(rev) > 0) {
      
   
      string <- paste0(string, sprintf(" by %s.", nice_string(rev)))
      
    } else {
       if (package$package == "wmm") {
      string <- paste0(string, " by Athanasia Monika Mowinckel and Rohit Goswami.")
       } else if (package$package == "birdsize") {
      string <- paste0(string, " by Quentin Read and Matt Strimas-Mackey.")
    } else if (package$package == "naijR") {
      string <- paste0(string, " by Margaret Siple and Alican Cagri Gokcek.")
    } else {
      string <- paste0(string, ".")
    }
    }
  }
  
  paste("+", string)

}
text <- purrr::map_chr(
  packages,
  present_one
)
cat(paste0(text, collapse = "\n\n"))
```

Discover [more packages](/packages), read more about [Software Peer Review](/software-review).

### New versions

```{r news, cache=TRUE}
registry <- dplyr::filter(
  registry,
  !grepl("ropenscilabs\\/", url),
  !grepl("ropensci-archive\\/", url)
)

registry <- registry %>%
  dplyr::rowwise() %>%
  dplyr::mutate(
  owner = strsplit(urltools::path(url), "/")[[1]][1],
  repo = strsplit(urltools::path(url), "/")[[1]][2]
) %>%
  dplyr::filter(
    !is.na(owner)
  )
packages <- split(registry, seq(nrow(registry)))
get_release <- function(repo) {
  info <- gh::gh(
    "GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/releases",
    owner = repo$owner,
    repo = repo$repo,
    per_page = 3,
    description = repo$description
  )
  info <- info[!purrr::map_lgl(info, "draft")]
  if(length(info) == 0 || anytime::anytime(info[[1]]$published_at) < last_newsletter) {
    return(NULL)
  }
  
  tibble::tibble(
    package = repo$package,
    version = info[[1]]$tag_name,
    url = info[[1]]$html_url,
    description = repo$description
  )
}
packages[purrr::map_chr(packages, "package") == "gert"][[1]]$owner <- "r-lib"
packages[purrr::map_chr(packages, "package") == "gert"][[1]]$repo <- "gert"
packages[purrr::map_chr(packages, "package") == "credentials"][[1]]$owner <- "r-lib"
packages[purrr::map_chr(packages, "package") == "credentials"][[1]]$repo <- "credentials"
packages[purrr::map_chr(packages, "package") == "commonmark"][[1]]$owner <- "r-lib"
packages[purrr::map_chr(packages, "package") == "commonmark"][[1]]$repo <- "commonmark"
releases <- purrr::map_df(
  packages,
  get_release
)
releases <- split(releases, seq(nrow(releases)))
format_release <- function(release) {
  sprintf(
    '[%s](https://docs.ropensci.org/%s "%s") ([`%s`](%s))',
    release$package,
    release$package,
    release$description,
    release$version,
    release$url
  )
}
all_releases <- purrr::map_chr(releases, format_release)
text <- nice_string(all_releases)
```

The following `r if (length(releases) > 1) english(length(releases))` package`r if (length(releases) > 1) "s"` `r if (length(releases) > 1) "have" else "has"` had an update since the last newsletter: `r text`.

## Software Peer Review

```{r software-review, results='asis'}
# from pkgdown https://github.com/r-lib/pkgdown/blob/1ca166905f1b019ed4af9642617ea09fa2b8fc17/R/utils.r#L176

get_description <- function(body) {
  lines <- strsplit(body, "\n")[[1]]
  name <- stringr::str_squish(sub("Package:", "", lines[grepl("^Package", lines)][1]))
  description <- stringr::str_squish(sub("Title:", "", lines[grepl("^Title", lines)][1]))
  description <- cran_unquote(sub("\\.$", "", description))
  list(name = name, description = description)
}

get_user_text <- function(issue) {
  info <- gh::gh("GET /users/{username}", username = issue$user$login)
  name <- info$name %||% issue$user$login
  url <- if (nzchar(info$blog)) info$blog else info$html_url
  if (!grepl("^https?:", url)) url <- paste0("http://", url)
  if (url == "https://wwww.researchgate.net/profile/Kristof_Haneca") url <- "https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kristof_Haneca"
  if (url == "https://www.surfaces.co.il") url <- "https://github.com/micha-silver"
  if (url == "http://csaybar.github.io") url <- "https://csaybar.github.io"
  sprintf("[%s](%s)", name, url)
  
}

tidy_issue <- function(issue) {
  labels <- purrr::map_chr(issue$labels, "name")
  label <- labels[grepl("[0-9]\\/.*", labels)][1]
  df <- tibble::tibble(
    label = label,
    name = get_description(issue$body)$name,
    description = get_description(issue$body)$description,
    title = issue$title,
    holding = "holding" %in% purrr::map_chr(issue$labels, "name"),
    others = toString(purrr::map_chr(issue$labels, "name")),
    closed_at = issue$closed_at %||% NA,
    url = issue$html_url,
    user = get_user_text(issue),
    stats = dplyr::if_else("stats" %in% purrr::map_chr(issue$labels, "name"), " (Stats).", "")
  )
  
  dplyr::rowwise(df) %>%
    dplyr::mutate(text = sprintf("    * [%s](%s), %s. Submitted by %s. %s", name, url, description, user, stats))
}

get_issues <- function(label, state) {
  issues <- gh::gh(
    "GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues",
    owner = "ropensci",
    repo = "software-review",
    state = state, 
    labels = label
  )
  
  purrr::map_df(issues, tidy_issue)
}
  
active_issues <- purrr::map_df(
  c("1/editor-checks","2/seeking-reviewer(s)","3/reviewer(s)-assigned","4/review(s)-in-awaiting-changes","5/awaiting-reviewer(s)-response","6/approved"),
  get_issues,
  state = "open"
)

closed_issues <- get_issues(state = "closed", label  ="6/approved")

ok_date <- function(date) {
  if (is.na(date)) {
    return(TRUE)
  } 
  
  anytime::anytime(date) >= last_newsletter
}

closed_issues <- dplyr::rowwise(closed_issues) %>%
  dplyr::filter(ok_date(closed_at))

issues <- dplyr::bind_rows(active_issues, closed_issues)


no_holding <- sum(issues$holding)
issues <- dplyr::filter(issues, !holding)
text <- sprintf("There are %s recently closed and active submissions", english(nrow(issues)))
if (no_holding > 0) {
  text <- paste0(
    text,
    sprintf(
      " and %s submission%s on hold.",
      no_holding,
      if (no_holding > 1) "s" else ""
    )
  )
} else {
  text <- paste0(text, ".")
}

count_label <- function(label) {
  no <- snakecase::to_sentence_case(english(sum(issues$label == label, na.rm = TRUE)))
  url <- paste0("https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc+label%3A", label)
  sprintf("* %s at ['%s'](%s):\n\n %s", no, label, url, paste0(issues$text[!is.na(issues$label)][ issues$label == label], collapse = "\n\n"))
}

cat(text)
cat(
  paste0(
    " Issues are at different stages: \n\n",
    paste0(
      purrr::map_chr(sort(unique(issues$label[!is.na(issues$label)]), decreasing = TRUE), count_label),
      collapse = "\n\n"
    )
  )
)
```

Find out more about [Software Peer Review](/software-review) and how to get involved.

## On the blog

<!-- Do not forget to rebase your branch! -->

```{r blog}

parse_one_post <- function(path){
  lines <- suppressWarnings(readLines(path, encoding = "UTF-8"))
  yaml <- blogdown:::split_yaml_body(lines)$yaml
  yaml <- glue::glue_collapse(yaml, sep = "\n")
  yaml <- yaml::yaml.load(yaml)
  
  language <- function(path) {
    name <- fs::path_ext_remove(fs::path_file(path))
    if (grepl("\\.[a-z][a-z]", name)) {
      sub(".*\\.", "", name)
    } else {
      "en"
    }
  }
  software_peer_review <- "Software Peer Review" %in% yaml$tags
  tech_note <- "tech notes" %in% yaml$tags && !software_peer_review
  other <- !software_peer_review && !tech_note
  
  
  meta <- tibble::tibble(
    date = anytime::anydate(yaml$date),
    author = nice_string(yaml$author),
    title = yaml$title,
    software_peer_review = software_peer_review,
    tech_note = tech_note,
    other = other,
    socialImg = yaml$socialImg %||% "",
    socialAlt = yaml$socialAlt %||% "",
    description = stringr::str_squish(yaml$description %||% ""),
    newsletter = "newsletter" %in% yaml$tags,
    slug = yaml$slug,
    dir = fs::path_dir(path),
    language = language(path)
    )

  post_url <- if (meta[["language"]] == "en") {
    sprintf(
      "/blog/%s/%s/%s/%s",
      lubridate::year(meta$date),
      stringr::str_pad(lubridate::month(meta$date), 2, "0", side = "left"),
      stringr::str_pad(lubridate::day(meta$date), 2, "0", side = "left"),
      meta$slug
    )
  } else {
    sprintf(
      "/%s/blog/%s/%s/%s/%s",
      meta[["language"]],
      lubridate::year(meta$date),
      stringr::str_pad(lubridate::month(meta$date), 2, "0", side = "left"),
      stringr::str_pad(lubridate::day(meta$date), 2, "0", side = "left"),
      meta$slug
    )
  }

  meta$url <- post_url
  meta
}
paths <- fs::dir_ls("..", recurse = TRUE, glob = "*.md")
paths <- paths[!paths %in% c("../_index.md", "../2021-02-03-targets/raw_data_source.md",
  "../2021-02-03-targets/README.md")]
posts <- purrr::map_df(paths, parse_one_post)
posts <- dplyr::filter(posts, date >= as.Date(last_newsletter), !newsletter)
posts <- split(posts, posts[["dir"]])
format_post <- function(dir) {
  main_language <- if (any(dir[["language"]] == "en")) {
    "en"
  } else {
    dir[["language"]][[1]]
  }
  
  post <- dir[which(dir[["language"]] == main_language),]
  string <- sprintf("* [%s](%s) by %s", post$title, post$url, post$author)
  if (post$description != "") {
    if (post$title != "R-universe now builds MacOS ARM64 binaries for use on Apple Silicon (aka M1/M2/M3) systems") {
    string <- paste0(string, ". ", sub("\\?$", "", sub("\\!$", "", sub("\\.$", "", post$description), ".")), ".")
    }
  } else {
    string <- paste0(string, ".")  
  }
    if (post$title == "Marketing Ideas For Your Package") {
      string <- paste0(
      string,
      " This post was discussed on the [R Weekly highlights podcast](https://rweekly.fireside.fm/156) hosted by Eric Nantz and Mike Thomas.")
  }
  if (post$title == "Beautiful Code, Because We’re Worth It!") {
    string <- paste0(string, " This post was featured in the [R Weekly Highlights podcast](https://rweekly.fireside.fm/154?t=1338) hosted by Eric Nantz and Mike Thomas.")
  }
  
  if (post$socialImg != "") {
    img_file <- fs::path_file(post$socialImg)
    download.file(sprintf("https://ropensci.org/%s", post$socialImg), img_file)
    img_file %>% magick::image_read() %>% magick::image_scale("400x") %>% magick::image_write(img_file)
    string <- paste0(
      string,
      sprintf('{{< figure src="%s" alt="%s" width="400" >}}\n\n', img_file, post$socialAlt)
    )
  }
  
other_langs <- dir[which(dir[["language"]] != main_language),]
  other_langs <- split(other_langs, sort(as.numeric(rownames(other_langs))))
  if (length(other_langs) > 0) {
    other_langs_text <- purrr::map_chr(
      other_langs,
      ~ sprintf("<a href='%s' lang='%s'>%s (%s)</a>", .x[["url"]], .x[["language"]], .x[["title"]], .x[["language"]])
      ) %>% 
      toString
    other_langs_text <- sprintf("Other languages: %s.", other_langs_text)
    string <- sprintf("%s %s", string, other_langs_text)
  }
  
  string
}
```

```{r, results='asis'}
software_review <- posts[purrr::map_lgl(posts, ~any(.x[["software_peer_review"]]))]
if (length(software_review) > 0) {
  cat("### Software Review\n\n")
  cat(
    paste0(
      purrr::map_chr(software_review, format_post),
      collapse = "\n\n"
    )
  )
  cat("\n\n")
}

others <- posts[purrr::map_lgl(posts, ~any(.x[["other"]]))]
if (length(others) > 0) {
  cat(
    paste0(
      purrr::map_chr(others, format_post),
      collapse = "\n\n"
    )
  )
  cat("\n\n")
}


tech_notes <- posts[purrr::map_lgl(posts, ~any(.x[["tech_note"]]))]
if (length(tech_notes) > 0) {
  cat("\n\n")
  cat("### Tech Notes\n\n")
  cat(
    paste0(
      purrr::map_chr(tech_notes, format_post),
      collapse = "\n\n"
    )
  )
  cat("\n\n")
}
```

## Calls for contributions

### Calls for maintainers

If you're interested in maintaining any of the R packages below, you might enjoy reading our blog post [What Does It Mean to Maintain a Package?](/blog/2023/02/07/what-does-it-mean-to-maintain-a-package/).

* [internetarchive](https://docs.ropensci.org/internetarchive/), an API Client for the Internet Archive. [Issue for volunteering](https://github.com/ropensci/internetarchive/issues/17).

* [historydata](https://docs.ropensci.org/historydata/), datasets for historians. [Issue for volunteering](https://github.com/ropensci/historydata/issues/23).

* [textreuse](https://docs.ropensci.org/textreuse/), detect text reuse and document similarity. [Issue for volunteering](https://github.com/ropensci/textreuse/issues/97).

* [USAboundaries](https://docs.ropensci.org/USAboundaries/) (and USAboundariesdata), historical and contemporary boundaries of the United States of America . [Issue for volunteering](https://github.com/ropensci/USAboundaries/issues/50).

### Calls for contributions

* [Help make qualtRics better! Code contributions wanted](/blog/2024/03/01/qualtrics-call-help/)

* [Help make assertr better! Come close issues](/blog/2024/02/27/assertr-call-help/)

* [Help users and developers of targets by answering questions!](/blog/2024/02/29/targets-call-help/)

* [Help make waywiser better! User requests wanted](/blog/2024/02/19/waywiser-call-help/)

Also refer to our [help wanted page](/help-wanted/) -- before opening a PR, we recommend asking in the issue whether help is still needed.

## Package development corner

Some useful tips for R package developers. :eyes:

### Reminder: R Consortium Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) Grant Program Accepting Proposals until April 1st!

The R Consortium Call for Proposal might be a relevant funding opportunity for your package!
Find out more in their [post](https://www.r-consortium.org/blog/2024/02/08/r-consortium-infrastructure-steering-committee-isc-grant-program-accepting-proposals-starting-march-1st).
If you can't prepare your proposal in time, the next call will start [September 1st](https://www.r-consortium.org/all-projects/call-for-proposals).

### `@examplesIf` for conditional examples in package manuals

Do you know you can make some examples of your package manual conditional on, say, the session being interactive?
The [`@examplesIf` roxygen2 tag](https://roxygen2.r-lib.org/articles/rd.html?q=examplesIf#examples) is really handy.
What's more, inside the examples of a single manual page, you can seamlessly mix and match `@examples` and `@examplesIf` pieces.

### 'argument "..2" is missing, with no default'

Mike Mahoney [posted an important PSA on Mastodon](https://fosstodon.org/@MikeMahoney218/112044613555056993):

> if you're getting a new error message 'argument "..2" is missing, with no default' on #rstats 4.3.3, it's likely because you have a trailing comma in a call to `glue::glue()`
> seeing this pop up in a few Slacks so figured I'd share
> https://github.com/tidyverse/glue/issues/320

Thanks, Mike!

### Useful hack: a CRAN-specific .Rbuildignore

The [`.Rbuildignore` file](https://blog.r-hub.io/2020/05/20/rbuildignore/) lists the files to not be included when building your package, such as your pkgdown configuration file.
Trevor L. Davis posted a neat idea on [Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/deck/@trevorld@fosstodon.org/112012986709303927): using a CRAN-specific `.Rbuildignore`, so that CRAN submissions omit some tests and vignettes to keep the package under the size limit.

Regarding tests themselves, remember you can [skip some or all](https://books.ropensci.org/http-testing/cran-preparedness.html#skipping-a-few-tests-on-cran) on CRAN (but make sure you're running them on [continuous integration](https://devguide.ropensci.org/pkg_ci.html)!).


### Key advantages of using the keyring package

If your package needs the user to provide secrets, like API tokens, to work, you might be interested in wrapping or recommending the keyring package (maintained by Gábor Csárdi), that accesses the system credential store from R.
See this recent [R-hub blog post](https://blog.r-hub.io/2024/02/28/key-advantages-of-using-keyring/).

### A package for linting roxygen2 documentation

The compelling [roxylint package](https://openpharma.github.io/roxylint/) by Doug Kelkhoff allows you to check some aspects of your roxygen2 docs, such as the use of full stops and sentence case.
See the [list of current rules](https://openpharma.github.io/roxylint/reference/linters.html#functions).

## Last words

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