Maëlle Salmon

R(esearch) Software Engineer & Blogger based in Nancy, France

maelle on the verge of laughing
©Photo Julie Noury Soyer

Current work

  • Part-time research software engineer for rOpenSci (since February 2018).
  • Part-time software engineer for cynkra (since June 2022).

I'm also...

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Latest blog post & talk

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How to open files, folders, websites in R

Coming to you from France, a post about Mise en place for R projects. In a less francophone phrasing: to get to work on something you have to open that thing, be it a script or a project or a website. The easier that is, the faster you get to work. In this post I’ll show a roundup of R functions and related tools for opening scripts, projects and websites for yourself or on behalf of the users of your code.

Git, un gentil 'push' vers une meilleure maîtrise

Une pratique confiante de Git peut changer la vie professionnelle de toute personne écrivant du code ou de la prose avec R, résultant en un historique utile à parcourir ou à consulter, la possibilité de travailler en parallèle sur différents aspects, etc. En particulier, la meilleure pratique Git est de créer de petits commits atomiques avec des messages informatifs. Pourquoi ? Et comment ? Apprenez trois raisons pour lesquelles les petits commits Git valent la peine.


How to pronounce my name

My last name is Salmon like the fish and the colour, and you can pronounce it like that if you want. My first name, Maëlle, is derived from a Celtic word that means princess or chief. It’s pronounced “Ma-El” as “ma” in “macaroni” and as the Spanish “El”.