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New Versions

  • A new version (v2.3) of pdftools is on CRAN - Text extraction, rendering and converting of PDF documents. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the README to get started.

    pdf_text() improvements; new fxns pdf_ocr_text/pdf_ocr_data wrap tesseract

  • A new version (v0.5.3) of gender is on CRAN - Predict gender from names using historical data. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the vignette to get started.

    docs improvements, testing fixes

  • A new version (v2.4.0) of RNeXML is on CRAN - Semantically Rich I/O for the NeXML Format. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the vignettes to get started.

    use Additional_repositories for taxadb

  • A new version (v0.2.0) of citecorp is on CRAN - client for the Open Citations Corpus. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.

    oc_doi2ids/oc_pmid2ids/oc_pmcid2ids functions now vectorized; bug fixes

  • A new version (v0.9.4) of rnoaa is on CRAN - NOAA Weather Data from R. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the vignettes to get started.

    new gefs fxns gefs_dimensions/gefs_ensembles; gefs fxn fixes; argo family fxns no longer work as API is gone - but FTP fxns still work (argo_guoy_files()/argo())

  • A new version (v0.2.3) of tidync is on CRAN - a tidy approach to NetCDF data exploration and extraction. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.

    test fixes

  • A new version (v0.9.0) of crul is on CRAN - an R6 based HTTP client for R made for developers. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.

    HttpResponse object gains methods for checking response content type; head verb now uses auth correctly

  • A new version (v1.0.4) of essurvey is on CRAN - data from the European Social Survey. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v1.1.4) of solrium is on CRAN - general purpose R interface to Solr. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the vignettes to get started.

    fix delete_by_query()/$delete_by_query() method

  • A new version (v1.0.2) of spocc is on CRAN - an interface to many species occurrence data sources. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.

    fix failing tests on cran

  • A new version (v1.4.0) of rgbif is on CRAN - interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility API. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the occurrence manual to get started.

    new fxn mvt_fetch() for GBIF’s Map Vector Tiles; overhaul of occ_issues/name_issues fxns; many fixes

  • A new version (v0.8.0) of geojsonio is on CRAN - Convert Data from and to GeoJSON or TopoJSON. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the vignettes to get started.

    geojson_read() gains method for PostGIS; geojson_read() now uses sf instead of sp; geojson_list() gains precision param; bug fixes

  • A new version (v0.8.0) of ritis is on CRAN - an R client for ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information Service). See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.

    improve itis_search() examples; bug fix for itis_group()



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On the blog

Michael Quinn and Elin Waring wrote about a new version (v2) of their package skimr - (Re)introducing skimr v2 - A year in the life of an open source R project


Michael Sumner wrote about his package tidync that was recently approved in rOpenSci software review - tidync: scientific array data from NetCDF in R



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We’ve had six recent examples of maintainer transitions within rOpenSci:

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Footnotes

  1. Palstrøm N.B., Matthiesen R., Beck H.C. (2020) Data Imputation in Merged Isobaric Labeling-Based Relative Quantification Datasets. In: Matthiesen R. (eds) Mass Spectrometry Data Analysis in Proteomics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2051. Humana, New York, NY https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9744-2_13 

  2. Cinelli, M., Ficcadenti, V., & Riccioni, J. (2019). The interconnectedness of the economic content in the speeches of the US Presidents. Annals of Operations Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-019-03372-2 

  3. Umlauf, N., Klein, N., Simon, T., & Zeileis, A. (2019). bamlss: A Lego Toolbox for Flexible Bayesian Regression (and Beyond). arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.11784. https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11784 

  4. Bager Olsen, M. T., Geldmann, J., Harfoot, M., Tittensor, D. P., Price, B., Sinovas, P., … Burgess, N. D. (2019). Thirty-six years of legal and illegal wildlife trade entering the USA. Oryx, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0030605319000541 

  5. Vidal, M. C., Quinn, T. W., Stireman, J. O., Tinghitella, R. M., & Murphy, S. M. (2019). Geography is more important than host plant use for the population genetic structure of a generalist insect herbivore. Molecular Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15218 

  6. De Luca, D., Kooistra, W. H. C. F., Sarno, D., Gaonkar, C. C., & Piredda, R. (2019). Global distribution and diversity of Chaetoceros (Bacillariophyta, Mediophyceae): integration of classical and novel strategies. PeerJ, 7, e7410. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7410 

  7. Ondra, M. 2019. Reliability based design approach to stochastic supply planning. https://iaee2019ljubljana.oyco.eu/download/contribution/fullpaper/345/345_fullpaper_20190608_130510.pdf 

  8. Wang, Y., Goring, S. J., & McGuire, J. L. (2019). Bayesian ages for pollen records since the last glaciation in North America. Scientific Data, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0182-7 

  9. Nalborczyk, L., Grandchamp, R., Koster, E. H. W., Perrone-Bertolotti, M., & Loevenbruck, H. (2019). Can we decode phonetic features in inner speech using surface electromyography? https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8v5yd 

  10. Stanstrup, J., Broeckling, C., Helmus, R., Hoffmann, N., Mathé, E., Naake, T., … Neumann, S. (2019). The metaRbolomics Toolbox in Bioconductor and beyond. Metabolites, 9(10), 200. https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo9100200 

  11. Feng, X., Park, D. S., Walker, C., Peterson, A. T., Merow, C., & Papeş, M. (2019). A checklist for maximizing reproducibility of ecological niche models. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0972-5 

  12. Duffany, J. (2019). Developing CyberSecurity Skills with Intermediate Programming Courses. Proceedings of the 17th LACCEI International Multi-Conference for Engineering, Education, and Technology: “Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities and Communities.” https://doi.org/10.18687/laccei2019.1.1.414 

  13. Maherali, H. (2019). Mutualism as a plant functional trait: linking variation in the mycorrhizal symbiosis to climatic tolerance, geographic range and population dynamics. International Journal of Plant Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1086/706187 

  14. Havinga, I., Hein, L., Vega-Araya, M., & Languillaume, A. (2020). Spatial quantification to examine the effectiveness of payments for ecosystem services: A case study of Costa Rica’s Pago de Servicios Ambientales. Ecological Indicators, 108, 105766. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105766 

  15. Jin, L., Tefft, B. C., & Horrey, W. J. (2019). Mining consumer complaints to identify unsuccessful interactions with advanced driver assistance systems. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications Adjunct Proceedings - AutomotiveUI ’19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3349263.3351313