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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez 5d ago

James Balamuta 5d ago

This IS the droid you're looking for.

webRoid v1.0.0: a nearly full-featured R environment running natively on your Android phone or tablet.

Console, editor, plots, packages, 9 themes:no server, no cloud, no Jedi mind tricks. Just R on your device.

Tested extensively on emulators. Your actual device? The Force is strong, but no promises.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.webroid.app

#rstats #webR #Android #WebAssembly

Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez 5d ago

SORTEE 5d ago

The SORTEE guidelines for data and code quality control in ecology and evolutionary biology are now published in the Peer Community Journal!

🔗 https://peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24072/pcjournal.687/

Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez Mar 3

rOpenSci Mar 3

📝 [blog] How do we keep software peer review human-centered in the age of generative AI?

That’s the question behind our latest post at rOpenSci, where we describe:
• new expectations around AI use
• what this means for authors, reviewers, and editors
• why transparency matters more than ever

This is an evolving area, and we’re learning as we go.
💬 We’d love your feedback
https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/02/26/ropensci-ai-policy/

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Software Review in the Era of AI: What We Are Testing at rOpenSci

rOpenSci is testing preliminary policies on the use of generative AI tools, with proposed updates to documentation and procedures for authors submitting software for review, for editors, and for reviewers.

Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez Mar 1

GBIF Feb 26

🦀 Register for our next GBIF Data Use Club: Best practices for using GBIF-mediated data!

This online session will cover information relating to:

🧊 data transparency
📊ways to avoid unnecessary load on GBIF servers
✍️ how to appropriately credit original data providers through citations

The session will also feature opportunities for Q&A.

📍 11 March 226. 15:00-16:30 CET 🔗 https://gbif.link/DUC-using-GBIF.org See less

Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez Feb 17

Maëlle Salmon Feb 17

"Oops, Git! How to recover from common mistakes" 🙈

Come learn some Git with me and {saperlipopette} at Workshops for Ukraine!

Thursday, March 19th, 14:00 - 16:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)

https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine#h.r3evto8phau7

Organized by Dariia Mykhailyshyna 🙏

#RStats

Dariia Mykhailyshyna - Workshops for Ukraine

Feedback on the past workshops (if you want to learn how to make wordclouds, check out Text Data Analysis workshop below)

Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez Feb 4

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pandoc Feb 4

“pandoc for the people”, the pandoc wasm web-app, is now available at https://pandoc.org/app/
It allows to run any kind of document conversion that pandoc supports in the browser. The documents never leave the computer, thus ensuring *full privacy*.
Conversions to pdf are done via Typst.

#pandoc #wasm #typst