![]() ![]() How to plan your R package Should your package even exist? The answer to this will appear in the blog post but if I had to say this in one sentence, I’d say that a good R package for open science is an useful, robust and well-documented package that’s easy to find and that users will trust. Most of these tips will be useful for package development in general, and a few of them specific to scientific software. ![]() I’ll also share this post on the day of the hackathon to provide my audience with a more structured document than my slides, in case they want to keep some trace of what I said (and it helped me build a good narrative for the talk!). ![]() I was not starting from scratch obviously: we at rOpenSci already have well-formed opinions about such software, and I had given a talk about automatic tools for package improvement whose content was part of my top tips.Īs I’ve done in the past with my talks, I chose to increase the impact/accessibility of my work by sharing it on this blog. The talk topic sounded a bit daunting but as soon as I started preparing the talk I got all excited gathering resources – and as you may imagine since I was asked to talk about my tips I did not need to try & be 100% exhaustive. The idea was to have me talk about my “top tips on how to design and develop high-quality, user-friendly R software” in the context of open science, and then be a facilitator at the hackathon. It also worked well geographically since this hackathon was to take place in Ghent (Belgium) which is not too far away from my new city, Nancy (France). I was invited to an exciting ecology & R hackathon in my capacity as a co-editor for rOpenSci onboarding system of packages. ![]()
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