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Welcome to the R Contributor Office Hour (AMER)!

Useful links

R Development Guide: https://contributor.r-project.org/rdevguide/
R's Bugzilla: https://bugs.r-project.org
R Project Weblate server: https://translate.rx.studio/projects/r-project
R sources:

R-devel mailing list archives: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/, searchable GitHub repo: https://github.com/MichaelChirico/r-mailing-list-archive/tree/master/r-devel

Minutes from previous office hours: https://github.com/r-devel/rcontribution/tree/main/office_hours

Keeping in contact

Twitter: https://twitter.com/R_Contributors
Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@R_Contributors
Slack: https://contributor.r-project.org/slack

Facilitators

Heather Turner
Gabriel Becker

Warm up

Please tell us a bit about yourself, following the template below:

Name: Heather Turner
Country I am currently in: UK
Something we could do or discuss together today: Building R on the Mac

Name: Elio Campitelli
Country I am currently in: Argentina
Something we could do or discuss together today: Improve documentation project / package documentation translation (possible) project (for the Sprint)

Name: Pao Corrales
Country I am currently in: Argentina
Something we could do or discuss together today: what to do during the sprint

Name: Shreshtha Modi
Country I am currently in: India
Something we could do or discuss together today:Contributing to the R core, solving good first issues

Name: María Nanton
Country I'm at currently in: Argentina
Something we could do or discuss together today: translation contributions overview

Name: Debartha Paul
Country I'm currently at: India
Something we could do or discuss together today: Nothing in particular for me

Name: Ezekiel Ogundepo
Country I am currently in: Nigeria
Something we could do or discuss together today: Improve documentation project

Discussion

Translation

  • Maria has been trying to collate information from the Slack and past minutes about what is going on regarding translations
  • As well as the weblate project (https://contributor.r-project.org/r-project-sprint-2023/projects/weblate-improvements/), there are a couple more translation projects expected at the sprint
    • A general translation project, focusing on Hindi, Japanese, Spanish and possibly Arabic (where we have multiple participants that speak that language)
      • This group could also work on developing conventions e.g. for gendered languages, when to borrow English words, etc and guidelines for developing a glossary.
    • One related to the Mac GUI (r-devel/r-project-sprint-2023#12) adding those translations to Weblate.
  • Expect people working on any translation-related project to work closely and other people focusing on other projects that are contributing to translations (or are interested in doing so) may join some of the conversations.
  • Potential issue detected with the translations dashboard: languages seem to have a different number of translations to do? It may depend on packages added in manual processes to weblate

Documentation

  • Elio has created PR on sprint repo for documentation project: r-devel/r-project-sprint-2023#17 (merged during the office hour!)
    • Improving examples
    • Working on open documentation issues
  • Suggesting some new issues to work on - not opened on Bugzilla yet. - What would R Core prefer: many narrow documentation patches, or a small number of combined patches? - May be different from usual practice, since expect many patches to be submitted at the same time during the sprint. - Gabe suggests to ask on the R-devel mailing list.

Contribution

  • Shreshtha is new to contribution, so we had a quick look at R's Bugzilla.
  • For an introduction to contribution take a look at the tutorials and demos here: https://contributor.r-project.org/tutorials/ particularly the Contributing to R tutorial.