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  • A new version (v1.1.1) of dbparser is on CRAN - DrugBank database XML parser. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v1.4.0) of MODIStsp is on CRAN - Automate Download and Preprocessing of MODIS Land Products Data. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v2.4.4) of RNeXML is on CRAN - Semantically Rich I/O for the NeXML Format. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v0.1.1) of colocr is on CRAN - conduct co-localization analysis of fluorescence microscopy images. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v0.3.2) of cRegulome is on CRAN - access, manage and visualize regulome (microRNA/transcription factors)-gene correlations in cancer. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v0.3.6) of eia is on CRAN - API wrapper for US Energy Information Administration open data. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v2.3.6) of beautier is on CRAN - create BEAST2 input files programmatically. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v2.1) of tracerer is on CRAN - parse and analyze BEAST2 input files programmatically. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v1.3) of writexl is on CRAN - a portable, light-weight data frame to xlsx exporter. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the README to get started.
  • A new version (v0.27.1) of git2r is on CRAN - an interface to the libgit2 library, a pure C implementation of the Git core methods. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the README to get started.
  • A new version (v0.6.0) of stplanr is on CRAN - sustainable transport planning. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v1.0.0) of bold is on CRAN - interface to Bold Systems (http://www.boldsystems.org/) API. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v0.3.4) of taxa is on CRAN - taxonomic classes for groupings of taxonomic names without data, and those with data. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v0.9.95) of taxize is on CRAN - taxonomic toolbelt for R. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the taxize book to get started.



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In The News

  • testing: Why You Should Document Your Tests
    • Should you document your tests? I for one, only sometimes include comments in my tests, but perhaps they should be documented better? Do you comment or document your tests? This blog post is about Python, but the ideas apply to any language.



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

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  • rinat: The current maintainer is looking for a new maintainer. Email Scott if you’re interested.



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Footnotes

  1. Adil, S. H., Ebrahim, M., Ali, S. S. A., & Raza, K. 2019. Identifying Trends in Data Science Articles using Text Mining. In 2019 4th International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering, Sciences and Technology (ICEEST) (pp. 1-7). IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8981702 ↩

  2. Finoshin, A. D., Adameyko, K. I., Mikhailov, K. V., Kravchuk, O. I., Georgiev, A. A., Gornostaev, N. G., … Lyupina, Y. V. (2020). Iron metabolic pathways in the processes of sponge plasticity. PLOS ONE, 15(2), e0228722. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228722 ↩

  3. Pimiento, C., & Benton, M. J. (2020). The impact of the Pull of the Recent on extant elasmobranchs. Palaeontology. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12478 ↩

  4. Benhadi‐Marín, J., Santos, S. A. P., Baptista, P., & Pereira, J. A. (2020). Distribution of Bactrocera oleae (Rossi, 1790) throughout the Iberian Peninsula based on a maximum entropy modeling approach. Annals of Applied Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/aab.12584 ↩

  5. Ahrenfeldt, J., Waisi, M., Loft, I. C., Clausen, P. T. L. C., Allesøe, R., Szarvas, J., … Lund, O. (2020). Metaphylogenetic analysis of global sewage reveals that bacterial strains associated with human disease show less degree of geographic clustering. Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59292-w ↩

  6. Cinelli, M. (2019). Generalized rich-club ordering in networks. Journal of Complex Networks, 7(5), 702–719. https://doi.org/10.1093/comnet/cnz002 ↩

  7. Alfaro-Ramírez, F. U., Ramírez-Albores, J. E., Vargas-Hernández, J. J., Franco-Maass, S., & Pérez-Suárez, M. (2020). Potential reduction of Hartweg´s Pine (Pinus hartwegii Lindl.) geographic distribution. PLOS ONE, 15(2), e0229178. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229178 ↩

  8. Martinez-Feria, R. A., & Basso, B. (2020). Unstable crop yields reveal opportunities for site-specific adaptations to climate variability. Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59494-2 ↩

  9. Rego, A., Sousa, A. G. G., Santos, J. P., Pascoal, F., Canário, J., Leão, P. N., & Magalhães, C. (2020). Diversity of Bacterial Biosynthetic Genes in Maritime Antarctica. Microorganisms, 8(2), 279. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8020279 ↩

  10. Cederwall, J., Black, T. A., Blais, J. M., Hanson, M. L., Hollebone, B. P., Palace, V. P., … Orihel, D. M. (2020). Life under an oil slick: response of a freshwater food web to simulated spills of diluted bitumen in field mesocosms. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 77(5), 779–788. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2019-0224 ↩

  11. Mossion, V., Dauphin, B., Grant, J., Zemp, N., & Croll, D. (2020). A reference transcriptome for the early-branching fern Botrychium lunaria enables fine-grained resolution of population structure. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.17.952283 ↩

  12. Funk, B., Sadeh-Sharvit, S., Fitzsimmons-Craft, E. E., Trockel, M. T., Monterubio, G. E., Goel, N. J., … Taylor, C. B. (2020). A Framework for Applying Natural Language Processing in Digital Health Interventions. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(2), e13855. https://doi.org/10.2196/13855 ↩

  13. Correia, C. N., McLoughlin, K. E., Nalpas, N. C., Magee, D. A., Browne, J. A., Rue-Albrecht, K., … MacHugh, D. E. (2018). RNA Sequencing (RNA-Seq) Reveals Extremely Low Levels of Reticulocyte-Derived Globin Gene Transcripts in Peripheral Blood From Horses (Equus caballus) and Cattle (Bos taurus). Frontiers in Genetics, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2018.00278 ↩

  14. Verde Arregoitia, L. D., Teta, P., & D’Elía, G. (2020). Patterns in research and data sharing for the study of form and function in caviomorph rodents. Journal of Mammalogy. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyaa002 ↩

  15. Shivambu, T. C., Shivambu, N., & Downs, C. T. (2020). Impact assessment of seven alien invasive bird species already introduced to South Africa. Biological Invasions. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-020-02221-9 ↩

  16. Jhwueng, D.-C., & O’Meara, B. C. (2020). On the Matrix Condition of Phylogenetic Tree. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 16, 117693432090172. https://doi.org/10.1177/1176934320901721 ↩

  17. Cooke, R. S. C., Eigenbrod, F., & Bates, A. E. (2020). Ecological distinctiveness of birds and mammals at the global scale. Global Ecology and Conservation, 22, e00970. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e00970 ↩

  18. Palanisamy, S. (2019). An analysis on hidden markov model prediction factors using California wildfire and meteorological records (Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Sacramento). https://bit.ly/2yCWk2M ↩

  19. Panayiotou, C. (2020). An Ontological Analysis and Natural Language Processing of Figures of Speech. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence & Applications, 11(1), 17–30. https://doi.org/10.5121/ijaia.2020.11102 ↩

  20. Ji, Y., Baker, C. C., Li, Y., Popescu, V. D., Wang, Z., Wang, J., … Yu, D. W. (2020). Large-scale Quantification of Vertebrate Biodiversity in Ailaoshan Nature Reserve from Leech iDNA. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.10.941336 ↩

  21. Li, X., & Guo, B. (2020). Substantially adaptive potential in polyploid cyprinid fishes: evidence from biogeographic, phylogenetic and genomic studies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1920), 20193008. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.3008 ↩

  22. Silva, I., Crane, M., Marshall, B. M., & Strine, C. T. (2020). Revisiting reptile home ranges: moving beyond traditional estimators with dynamic Brownian Bridge Movement Models. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.10.941278 ↩

  23. Schwalb‐Willmann, J., Remelgado, R., Safi, K., & Wegmann, M. (2020). moveVis: Animating movement trajectories in synchronicity with static or temporally dynamic environmental data in R. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.13374 ↩