Noam Ross

I note that Twitter's `alt_text` field is designed for, and used by, people with visual impairments, so we wouldn't want to hijack it for other purposes. But including text such...

I think you can avoid LaTeX _or_ PhantomJS/webshot solutions entirely by just placing the text onto a blank image with the R graphics device. Some careful tweaking would be needed...

One can do it with just `png()`, `plot.new()`, and `text()`, no? No magic required.

I'm not sure it makes sense to try to merge them, but I think a topic ripe for a "lit review" (maybe more like what is being described for tables...

The R Journal has [categories](https://journal.r-project.org/share/author-guide.pdf) for both _Reviews and Proposals_ and _Benchmarks and Comparisons_ . A publication there might be one outcome of such a project, though probably not the...

Some time ago I tried an experiment embedding a rating widget right into the HTML of an R help file. @jonocarroll took it farther: https://github.com/noamross/htmlhelp/pull/16. The idea was to rate...

@jonocarroll Oh, cool! Nice work with **btts**. That's an interesting take on @jennybc's issue #41: promoting linki-ness in packages.

Some ideas might come from the Ruby-based bot @sckott made for ropensci reviews. It didn't do e-mails and was more narrowly focused: https://github.com/ropenscilabs/heythere

One of the tensions I've found in this area is the difference between a "working" repo where one is developing ideas and doing exploratory work, and a fully formed workflow...

I'm thinking of of testing with a bit of a broader scope, including model diagnostics and data validation as done with [**assertr**](https://github.com/ropenscilabs/assertr) or [**validate**](https://github.com/data-cleaning/validate). These tests may have boolean, text,...