Apr 15, 2019

rOpenSci HQ

• We’re planning a Community Call on Security for R with Ildi Czeller & Bob Rudis on May 7th. Create Your Own Security Adventure by telling us what you want to know about the topic.

Software 📦

CRAN: GitHub:

New packages

• The first version (v0.1) of tradestatistics is on CRAN - open trade statistics api wrapper and utility program. Checkout the docs to get started.
• The first version (v0.1.3) of virtuoso is on CRAN - interface to Virtuoso using ODBC. Checkout the docs to get started.
• The first version (v0.6.3) of DataSpaceR is on CRAN - interface to the CAVD DataSpace. Checkout the docs to get started.
• The first version (v0.1) of opencv is on CRAN - bindings to the OpenCV computer vision library. Checkout the README to get started.

New Versions

• A new version (v0.2.0) of nodbi is on CRAN - the NoSQL database connector. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the README to get started.

  new fxns docdb_query()/docdb_exists(); docdb_get() gets limit param

• A new version (v0.3.0) of getCRUCLdata is on CRAN - use and explore CRU CL v. 2.0 climatology elements. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.

  remove imports dplyr/tibble/tidyr, and suggest readr/sp; better docs

• A new version (v3.1.0) of qualtRics is on CRAN - download Qualtrics survey data. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.

  new maintainer Julia Silge 🎉; fix reason for CRAN archiving; many improvements

• A new version (v1.0.0) of elastic is on CRAN - general purpose interface to Elasticsearch. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.

  BREAKING CHANGE: new connection interface; many new fxns; new http library; much more

• A new version (v1.1.0) of nasapower is on CRAN - NASA POWER API Client. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.

  bug fixes; change how ‘GLOBAL’ values are requested

• A new version (v4.9.0) of plotly is on CRAN - Create Interactive Web Graphics via plotly.js. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the plotly book to get started.

  upgrade plotly.js library; a ton of new features; check out the changelog for more info

• A new version (v0.6) of ssh is on CRAN - Secure shell (SSH) client for R. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the vignette to get started.

  bugfix release: fix hardcoded string passwords

• A new version (v0.2.2) of fingertipsR is on CRAN - Fingertips data for public health http://fingertips.phe.org.uk/. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the vignettes to get started.
• A new version (v7.1.0) of drake is on CRAN - a pipeline toolkit for reproducible computation at scale. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.

  new use_drake() fxn; new RStudio addin; many other changes

• A new version (v0.1.8) of spatsoc is on CRAN - detecting spatial and temporal groups in GPS relocations. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.

  updated vignettes; new fxns edge_nn() and edge_dist()

• A new version (v1.2.12) of RefManageR is on CRAN - tools for importing and working with bibliographic references. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the vignettes to get started.

  many bug fixes

• A new version (v0.2.1) of stats19 is on CRAN - Work with Open Road Traffic Casualty Data from Great Britain. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.

  fixed issue with column labels not being there

• A new version (v2.0-9) of CoordinateCleaner is on CRAN - automated cleaning of occurrence records from biological collections. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.

  fixes to cc_outl()

Software Review ✔

We accept community contributed packages via our onboarding system - an open software review system, sorta like scholarly paper review, but way better. We’ll highlight newly onboarded packages here. A huge thanks to our reviewers, who do a lot of work reviewing (see the blog post on our review system), and the authors of the packages!

If you want to be a reviewer fill out this short form, and we’ll ping you when there’s a submission that fits in your area of expertise.

The following package was recently submitted:

• citesdb > A high-performance database of shipment-level CITES trade data
  • Author: Noam Ross
  • Issue: ropensci/onboarding#292
  • Reviewers: not yet assigned

The following three packages recently went through our onboarding process and have been approved:

• ramlegacy > Download and Read RAM Legacy Stock Assessment DataBase
  • Author: Kshitiz Gupta
  • Issue: ropensci/onboarding#264
  • Reviewers:
    • Sam Albers
    • Jamie Afflerbach
• DataSpaceR > An R Interface to the CAVD DataSpace
  • Author: Ju Yeong Kim
  • Issue: ropensci/onboarding#261
  • Reviewers:
    • Sean Hughes
    • czibman
• tradestatistics > Open Trade Statistics API Wrapper and Utility Program
  • Author: Mauricio Vargas
  • Issue: ropensci/onboarding#274
  • Reviewers:
    • Emily Riederer
    • Mark Padgham

On the blog

Community calls

Stefanie Butland wrote about our upcoming community call: Security for R.

Community

Sam Albers, Ilaria Prosdocimi, and Sam Zipper wrote about a new task view for hydrology hosted with rOpenSci: Getting your toes wet in R: Hydrology, meteorology, and more.

Use Cases

The following 11 works use/cite rOpenSci software:

• Kelly et al. used plotly in their paper Bcor loss perturbs myeloid differentiation and promotes leukaemogenesis ¹
• Rybinski used RSelenium in their paper A machine learning framework for automated analysis of central bank communication and media discourse. The case of Narodowy Bank Polski ²
• Pinto et al. used rotl in their paper All by myself? Meta‐analysis of animal contests shows stronger support for self than for mutual assessment models ³
• Konzen et al. used weathercan in their pre-print Modelling Function-Valued Processes with Nonseparable Covariance Structure ⁴
• Nghiem et al. used MODIStsp in their paper Detection of Vegetation Cover Change in Renewable Energy Development Zones of Southern California Using MODIS NDVI Time Series Analysis, 2000 to 2018 ⁵
• Harris used the NLMR package in their paper KLRfome - Kernel Logistic Regression on Focal Mean Embeddings ⁶
• Marcos et al. used MODIStsp in their paper Improving the detection of wildfire disturbances in space and time based on indicators extracted from MODIS data: a case study in northern Portugal ⁷
• De Frenne et al. used CoordinateCleaner in their paper Global buffering of temperatures under forest canopies ⁸
• Matthias et al. used the rcrossref package in their paper The Two-Way Street of Open Access Journal Publishing: Flip It and Reverse It ⁹
• Medina used rgbif in their paper The role of the environment in the evolution of nest shape in Australian passerines ¹⁰
• Castro et al. used osmdata in their paper Assessing the Horizontal Positional Accuracy in OpenStreetMap: A Big Data Approach ¹¹

In The News

Erin Buchanan used our package rorcid in her blog post Updating Your CV with Packages.

Benjamin Louis wrote a blog post using pdftools: PDF vs HTML : Extracting information from a Google Form with R.

Call For Contributors

Part of the mission of rOpenSci is making sustainable software that users can rely on. Some software maintainers need to give up maintenance due to a variety of circumstances. When that happens we try to find new maintainers. We’ve had five recent examples of maintainer transitions within rOpenSci:

• RSelenium: now maintained by Ju Kim
• chromer: now maintained by Paula Andrea
• qualtRics: now maintained by Julia Silge
• rsnps: now maintained by Julia Gustavsen and Sina Rüeger
• rdpla: now maintained by Alyssa Columbus

We’ve got only one package in need of a new maintainer:

• webchem: The current maintainer of webchem, Eduard Szöcs, is looking for a new maintainer. See issue #155. Do ping Eduard in that issue and/or email us at info@ropensci.org

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