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Summary of questions addressed in the community call, maintaining R packages
We have been working hard behind the scenes on the upcoming release of our new git package named gert, a joint effort from rOpenSci and the Tidyverse team. One of the main features of gert is the out-of-the-box authentication mechanism, which is provided via the new credentials package. Among other things, the credentials package makes it possible to save and load https authentication details from the git credential store, which is part of the official command-line git....
Semi-monthly summary of the rOpenSci Newsletter, June 2020
This week we released a major new version of the rsvg package on CRAN. This package provides R bindings to librsvg2 which is a powerful system library for rendering svg images into bitmaps that can be displayed, or use for further processing in for example the magick package. The biggest change in this release is the R package on Windows and MacOS now includes the latest librsvg 2.48.4. This is a major upgrade; the librsvg2 rendering engine has been completely rewritten in Rust 1 using components from Mozilla Servo....
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