[Bioc-devel] New(ish!) Seattle Bioconductor team member

Henrik Bengtsson hb at biostat.ucsf.edu
Thu Mar 5 00:03:50 CET 2015


On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Michael Lawrence
<lawrence.michael at gene.com> wrote:
> Welcome.
>
> For those who don't know, Jim is also the author of the neat "lintr"
> package, which checks your R code as you type, across multiple editors.
>
> https://github.com/jimhester/lintr

Not to mention https://github.com/jimhester/covr - It only took me one
round of 'covr' to become a test-coverage-oholic.

Jim, great to have you on board.

/Henrik

>
> Michael
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Martin Morgan <mtmorgan at fredhutch.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Let me take this belated opportunity to introduce Jim Hester <
>> jhester at fredhutch.org> to the Bioconductor developer community.
>>
>> Jim is working in the short term on SummarizedExperiment, including the
>> refactoring efforts he introduced yesterday as well as coercion methods to
>> and from ExpressionSet (an initial version from ExpressionSet to
>> SummarizedExperiment is available in the development version GenomicRanges;
>> iterations will include coercion in the reverse direction as well as
>> perhaps more 'clever' mapping between the probeset or gene names of
>> ExpressionSet and relevant range-based notation). Jim will also contribute
>> to ongoing project activities like new package reviews, package
>> maintenance, and upcoming release activities.
>>
>> Jim brings a lot of interesting biological and software development
>> experience to the project. Say hi when you have a chance!
>>
>> Martin
>> --
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>> 1100 Fairview Ave. N.
>> PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109
>>
>> Location: Arnold Building M1 B861
>> Phone: (206) 667-2793
>>
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