Make your own software cheatsheet
Tips and tools for making a user-friendly cheatsheet
Posts by Year
2025
Sound practices for maintaining software
Tricks and tips for software maintainers
Software Badges
What software badges are and how to use them
NAO 201-118: Software Governance and Public Release
Information about the NOAA Administrative Order (NAO) on Software Goverannce and Public Release
Known issues with installing R packages for NOAA Staff
This guidance outlines issues and fixes for common problems with installing R packages that NOAA staff have encountered
Ecosystem modeling guidance
High-level guidance as to how and why to develop ecosystem models for living resource management
Developer Tool Usability Checklist
Guidance for tool authors before, during, and after development to help promote usability of their tool long term.
CRAN resources
Guides for submitting your R package to CRAN
2024
The FIT R Universe
Access up-to-date compiled R packages from the NOAA Fisheries Integrated Toolbox
NOAA Themed pkgdown
Create a NOAA themed pkgdown Landing Page in 3 steps
FIT Tool Quality Standards
Learn more about the FIT tool quality standards
FIT Tool Quality Standards: Information for Reviewers
Information for Reviewers of the FIT tool quality standards
FIT Tool Quality Standards: Reviewer Checklists
Checklists for reviewers for the FIT tool quality standards
2023
Resources for working with sensitive information
Helpful links for working with secrets and confidential data
Posit Connect
NOAA OST Posit Connect Instance
NOAA GitHub Guidelines
Guidelines for using GitHub at NOAA Fisheries
Version Control
Overview and guidance for using version control systems, such as Git.
Tool Onboarding Procedures
How to get your software listed on the FIT
Open Sciency
Check out a core open science curriculum by and for the research community
Open Science at NOAA Fisheries
Learn more about Open Science at NOAA Fisheries
NOAA FIT Technical Meeting Resources (2020-2021)
View content from the NOAA FIT Tech Meetings that occurred during 2020 and 2021
FRDC Stock Assessment Toolbox
Stock Assessment Software options compiled by Australia’s Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Shared media about the FIT
Media resources to share about the FIT
Learn TMB (Beginner and Intermediate)
Learn how to use Template Model Builder (Beginner and Intermediate)
Developing R Packages Tutorial
Learn how to develop R packages in this self-guided tutorial
Tips for Commenting Code
Learn how to comment concisely
Posit Webinar Series FY2023
Get links to materials for the Posit Webinar Series hosted by NSAP
NOAA FIT Code of Conduct
Learn about the NOAA FIT Code of Conduct
2022
Codespaces
Resources for using GitHub Codespaces
NOAA Stock Assessment Calendar
Calendar of events related to Fisheries stock assessment
ROpenSci
Learn more about an organization hosting Open Source R packages that support Open Science
NOAA Science Seminar Series
Calendar of public seminars available across NOAA
NMFS R User Group
Information on the NOAA Fisheries-wide R user group
2021
FY18-20 National Protected Species Toolbox Initiative Talks
Recordings and talks on tools funded by the FY18-20 NPSTI
Marine Recreational Information Program User Seminars
Links to past Seminars and information for MRIP users
National Protected Species Toolbox Initiative Publications
Publications resulting from the NPSTI
Reproducible Reporting with R (R3)
Materials from training for marine ecological indicators
Introduction to GitHub
Learn more about how to get started using GitHub
2018 National Protected Species Toolbox Initiative Mini Symposium
Links to presentations from the 2018 NPSTI mini-symposium
2015 National Protected Species Toolbox Initiative Mini Symposium
See presentations from the 2015 NPSTI mini-symposium
Tutorials and Vignettes, FIT General Modeling Tools
See tutorials for bayesdfa, nmfspalette, and more
National Protected Species Toolbox Initiative
Developing analytical tools for protected species
Practical R Workflow Workshop for NOAA Fisheries Scientists
Self-guided resources to learn about using R in a reproducible way
Contributing to the FIT
How to Contribute to the NOAA Fisheries Integrated Toolbox
Stock Assessment Workshops and Trainings
Information about trainings for NOAA Fisheries stock assessment scientists
General Stock Assessment Information
Introduction to fisheries and marine mammal stock assessments
Tutorials and Vignettes
Self-guided resources for using NOAA FIT tools
NOAA Library Stock Assessment Science Seminar Series
NOAA Library Stock Assessment Science Seminar Series
2020
Object-oriented programming in R
Learn about what object-oriented programming systems are and how they are implemented in R
Cloud Resources
Introduction to cloud computing for scientific computing
2019
Reproducible Code
Writing and using reproducible code
Dependency Management
How to declare and manage software dependencies, and maintain backwards compatibility where appropriate
Code Testing
Guidance on how to test your code
Code Review
Introduction to code review and how to do it
Code Documentation
How to document code and datasets well
GitHub Best Practices
Guidance for writing code collaboratively on GitHub