2024-05-09_EMEA_APAC.md

Welcome to the R Contributor Office Hour (EMEA/APAC)!

2024-05-09

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 - SVN repo: https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/
• GitHub mirror: https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/
• GitHub Codespace (R Dev Container) https://github.com/r-devel/r-dev-env
• 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
• Annotated list of bugs: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bhfPIJQXeKpydigMH79FKIkdHO9NxlBSB_bTRoCFnPY/edit#gid=0

Keeping in contact

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

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:
- Review of Dev Day @ Imperial, follow ups

Name: Ella Kaye
Country I am currently in: UK
Something we could do or discuss together today:
- Review of Dev Day @ Imperial, follow ups - could go through the substr patch?

Name: Brian Terry
Country I am currently in: UK
Something we could do or discuss together today:
- Brief update about Warwick R User Group x DataCove - will follow up with email to organising committee.

Name: Thomas Zwagerman
Country I am currently in: UK
Something we could do or discuss together today:

Discussion

General chat

• Discussion of R User Group organization in Warwick and Cambridge
• Discussion of proposals put in for RSECon24 (https://rsecon24.society-rse.org/), including several of interest to R Contributors and community organizers - will advertise more if they get accepted!

R Dev Day @ Imperial

• Review of the day written up here: https://github.com/r-devel/r-dev-day/blob/main/reports/imperial2024.md

• Heather still to write up summary of conclusions from nlme bug analysis - needs to go back to Bugzilla for wider discussion

• Ella has patch on substr ready to submit as bug report on Bugzilla

• Brian still interested in working on termplot issue, but contact Colin first. May be better to split into two issues so another person can pick up the second part.

  • Potentially Thomas could pick up second part, will give Colin first dibs.

• Ella is intererested in working on the stem() function issue (r-devel/r-dev-day#12) but is unlikely to do much on this before the R Dev Day @ PLUS.

• Brian may be able to start looking at one of the issues involving C (https://github.com/r-devel/r-dev-day/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3AC) as preparation for R Dev Day @ PLUS

  • should consider the stem() function issue as up-for-grabs

substr issue

• Reviewed issue (discussed at March office hour: https://github.com/r-devel/rcwg/blob/main/office_hours/2024-03-14_EMEA-APAC.md#substr-issue-ek)

• Walk through of documentation patch prepared at R Dev Day @ Imperial

  • updated description of arguments, details and examples

    • use tools::checkRd to check the Rd file as easy to make mistakes when editing Rd files by hand, also checks some conventions expected by R Core and other issues, e.g. encoding issues.

  • also considered adding a warning

  • plan to submit patch and ask if patch implementing warning would be welcome