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  • A new version (v0.9.0) of rplos is on CRAN - Interface to the Search API for Public Library of Science journals. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the vignettes to get started.
  • A new version (v0.3.2) of crminer is on CRAN - Fetch scholarly full text from Crossref. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the README to get started.
  • A new version (v0.9.2) 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.
  • A new version (v0.9.6) of rnoaa is on CRAN - NOAA Weather Data from R. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the vignettes to get started.
  • A new version (v0.3.2) of scrubr is on CRAN - clean biological occurrence records. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v2.0.5) of ijtiff is on CRAN - Comprehensive TIFF I/O with full support for ImageJ TIFF files. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v0.3.8) of rdefra is on CRAN - get data from DEFRA’s UK-AIR website https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the rdefra vignette to get started.
  • A new version (v0.5.2) of stplanr is on CRAN - sustainable transport planning. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v4.9.2.1) 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.
  • A new version (v0.4.1) of auk is on CRAN - eBird data extraction and processing. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v0.3.8) of jstor is on CRAN - read data from JSTOR/DfR. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v1.0) of tradestatistics is on CRAN - open trade statistics api wrapper and utility program. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v1.4) of xslt is on CRAN - extensible style-sheet language transformations. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the README to get started.
  • A new version (v1.1) of lightr is on CRAN - read spectrometric data and metadata. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v0.9.94) of taxize is on CRAN - taxonomic toolbelt for R. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the taxize book to get started.
  • A new version (v0.5.4) of vcr is on CRAN - record HTTP calls to disk for test caching. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the HTTP testing book to get started.



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On the blog

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Use Cases

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Footnotes

  1. Cirtwill, A. R., Dalla Riva, G. V., Baker, N. J., Ohlsson, M., Norström, I., Wohlfarth, I., … Stouffer, D. B. (2020). Related plants tend to share pollinators and herbivores, but strength of phylogenetic signal varies among plant families. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16420 ↩

  2. Léveillé-Bourret, É., Chen, B.-H., Garon-Labrecque, M.-È., Ford, B. A., & Starr, J. R. (2020). RAD sequencing resolves the phylogeny, taxonomy and biogeography of Trichophoreae despite a recent rapid radiation (Cyperaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 145, 106727. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106727 ↩

  3. Moudrý, V., & Devillers, R. (2020). Quality and usability challenges of global marine biodiversity databases: An example for marine mammal data. Ecological Informatics, 56, 101051. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2020.101051 ↩

  4. Deng, H., Wang, Q., Turner, D. P., Sexton, K. E., Burns, S. M., Eikermann, M., … Houle, T. T. (2020). Sentiment analysis of real-world migraine tweets for population research. Cephalalgia Reports, 3, 251581631989886. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515816319898867 ↩

  5. Shan, S., Soltis, P. S., Soltis, D. E., & Yang, B. (2020). Considerations in adapting CRISPR/Cas9 in nongenetic model plant systems. Applications in Plant Sciences, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11314 ↩

  6. Horne, C. R., Hirst, A. G., & Atkinson, D. (2020). Selection for increased male size predicts variation in sexual size dimorphism among fish species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1918), 20192640. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2640 ↩

  7. Akpınar, B. A., Carlson, P. O., Paavilainen, V. O., & Dunn, C. D. (2020). Pathogenicity of human mtDNA variants is revealed by combining a novel phylogenetic analysis with machine learning. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.10.902239 ↩

  8. Milla, R., Bastida, J. M., Turcotte, M. M., Jones, G., Violle, C., Osborne, C. P., … Byun, C. (2018). Phylogenetic patterns and phenotypic profiles of the species of plants and mammals farmed for food. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2(11), 1808–1817. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0690-4 ↩

  9. Scherer, C., Radchuk, V., Franz, M., Thulke, H., Lange, M., Grimm, V., & Kramer‐Schadt, S. (2020). Moving infections: individual movement decisions drive disease persistence in spatially structured landscapes. Oikos. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.07002 ↩

  10. Burns, M. D., & Bloom, D. D. (2020). Migratory lineages rapidly evolve larger body sizes than non-migratory relatives in ray-finned fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1918), 20192615. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2615 ↩

  11. Santos, J. C. (2020). Phylogenetic Analyses of Chemokine Receptors from Sequence Retrieval to Phylogenetic Trees. In Immune Mediators in Cancer (pp. 313-343). Humana, New York, NY. https://link.springer.com/protocol/10.1007/978-1-0716-0247-8_27 ↩

  12. Walczyńska, A., Gudowska, A., & Sobczyk, Ł. (2020). Should I shrink or should I flow? – body size adjustment to thermo-oxygenic niche. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.14.905901 ↩

  13. Mathes, S. (2019). The Dynamics of Residential Sorting and Health: Implications of Climate Change in the US. https://sophiemathescom.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/job_market_paper_sophie_mathes-1.pdf ↩

  14. Théroux-Rancourt, G., Roddy, A. B., Earles, J. M., Gilbert, M. E., Zwieniecki, M. A., Boyce, C. K., … Brodersen, C. R. (2020). Maximum CO2 diffusion inside leaves is limited by the scaling of cell size and genome size. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.16.904458 ↩

  15. Lakicevic M., Povak N., Reynolds K.M. (2020) Creating Maps. In: Introduction to R for Terrestrial Ecology. Springer, Cham https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-27603-4_3 ↩

  16. Wraith, J., Norman, P., & Pickering, C. (2020). Orchid conservation and research: An analysis of gaps and priorities for globally Red Listed species. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01306-7 ↩

  17. Vincent, F., & Bowler, C. (2020). Diatoms Are Selective Segregators in Global Ocean Planktonic Communities. mSystems, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00444-19 ↩

  18. Sawa, T., Momiyama, K., Mihara, T., Kainuma, A., Kinoshita, M., & Moriyama, K. (2020). Molecular epidemiology of clinically high‐risk Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains: Practical overview. Microbiology and Immunology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1348-0421.12776 ↩

  19. Yuan, M. L., Jung, C., Wake, M. H., & Wang, I. J. (2020). Habitat use, interspecific competition and phylogenetic history shape the evolution of claw and toepad morphology in Lesser Antillean anoles. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 129(3), 630–643. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blz203 ↩

  20. Gilbertson, M. L. J., White, L. A., & Craft, M. E. (2020). Trade‐offs with telemetry‐derived contact networks for infectious disease studies in wildlife. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.13355 ↩

  21. Bachman, S., Walker, B., Barrios, S., Copeland, A., & Moat, J. (2020). Rapid Least Concern: towards automating Red List assessments. Biodiversity Data Journal, 8. https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.8.e47018 ↩