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New Versions

  • A new version (v0.1.9) of codemetar is on CRAN - Generate codemeta metadata for R packages. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v1.3.2) of UCSCXenaTools is on CRAN - download and explore datasets from UCSC Xena data hubs. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v0.1.2) of chirps is on CRAN - client for the Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station Data. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v0.5.0) of emld is on CRAN - ecological metadata as linked data. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v1.1.0) of rnoaa is on CRAN - NOAA Weather Data from R. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v0.6.2) of stplanr is on CRAN - sustainable transport planning. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v0.4.2) of worrms is on CRAN - client for World Register of Marine Species. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v0.5.0) of iheatmapr is on CRAN - Interactive and complex heatmaps. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.
  • A new version (v0.4.0) of rcoreoa is on CRAN - client for CORE https://core.ac.uk/. See the release notes for changes. Checkout the docs to get started.



Software Review ✔


Software review is now accepting submissions again.

We accept community contributed packages via our software review 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 two packages were recently submitted:



Use Cases

The following 30 works use/cite rOpenSci software:



Call For Maintainers

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. Check out our guidance for taking over maintenance of a package.

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



Get involved with rOpenSci

We maintain a Contributing Guide that can help direct you to the right place, whether you want to make code contributions, non-code contributions, or other things like sharing use cases.





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Footnotes

  1. Adams, R. I., Bhangar, S., Dannemiller, K. C., Eisen, J. A., Fierer, N., Gilbert, J. A., … Bibby, K. (2016). Ten questions concerning the microbiomes of buildings. Building and Environment, 109, 224–234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2016.09.001 ↩

  2. Dunnett, S., Sorichetta, A., Taylor, G., & Eigenbrod, F. (2020). Harmonised global datasets of wind and solar farm locations and power. Scientific Data, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0469-8 ↩

  3. Morand, S., Chaisiri, K., Kritiyakan, A., & Kumlert, R. (2020). Disease Ecology of Rickettsial Species: A Data Science Approach. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 5(2), 64. https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed5020064 ↩

  4. Yang D., Liu L. (2020) Solar Project Financing, Bankability, and Resource Assessment. In: Gandhi O., Srinivasan D. (eds) Sustainable Energy Solutions for Remote Areas in the Tropics. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-41952-3_8 ↩

  5. Hannon, B. A., Fairfield, W. D., Adams, B., Kyle, T., Crow, M., & Thomas, D. M. (2020). Use and abuse of dietary supplements in persons with diabetes. Nutrition & Diabetes, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41387-020-0117-6 ↩

  6. Neuts, B., van der Zee, E., Scheider, S., Nyamsuren, E., & Steenberghen, T. Topics and Sentiments in Online Place Reviews, an Innovative Way of Understanding the Perception of a City without Asking. https://conference.corp.at/archive/CORP2020_180.pdf ↩

  7. Chandler, J. O., Haas, F. B., Khan, S., Bowden, L., Ignatz, M., Enfissi, E. M. A., … Leubner-Metzger, G. (2020). Rocket Science: The Effect of Spaceflight on Germination Physiology, Ageing, and Transcriptome of Eruca sativa Seeds. Life, 10(4), 49. https://doi.org/10.3390/life10040049 ↩

  8. Greenhalgh, S. P., Rosenberg, J. M., Staudt Willet, K. B., Koehler, M. J., & Akcaoglu, M. (2020). Identifying multiple learning spaces within a single teacher-focused Twitter hashtag. Computers & Education, 148, 103809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2020.103809 ↩

  9. Färber, L., van Gemert, R., Langangen, Ø., Durant, J. M., & Andersen, K. H. (2020). Population variability under stressors is dependent on body mass growth and asymptotic body size. Royal Society Open Science, 7(2), 192011. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.192011 ↩

  10. Pyle, P., Foster, K. R., Godwin, C. M., Kaschube, D. R., & Saracco, J. F. (2020). Yearling proportion correlates with habitat structure in a boreal forest landbird community. PeerJ, 8, e8898. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8898 ↩

  11. Verhoeven, M. R., Glisson, W. J., & Larkin, D. J. (2020). Niche Models Differentiate Potential Impacts of Two Aquatic Invasive Plant Species on Native Macrophytes. Diversity, 12(4), 162. https://doi.org/10.3390/d12040162 ↩

  12. Eastman, R. T., Roth, J. S., Brimacombe, K. R., Simeonov, A., Shen, M., Patnaik, S., & Hall, M. D. (2020). Remdesivir: A Review of Its Discovery and Development Leading to Emergency Use Authorization for Treatment of COVID-19. ACS Central Science, 6(5), 672–683. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.0c00489 ↩

  13. Ozturk, R. C., & Altinok, I. (2020). Interaction of Plastics with Marine Species. Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 20(8). https://doi.org/10.4194/1303-2712-v20_8_07 ↩

  14. DellaPosta, D., & Nee, V. (2020). Emergence of diverse and specialized knowledge in a metropolitan tech cluster. Social Science Research, 86, 102377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.102377 ↩

  15. Ladwig, L. M., Zirbel, C. R., Sorenson, Q. M., & Damschen, E. I. (2020). A taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional comparison of restoration seed mixes and historical plant communities in Midwestern oak savannas. Forest Ecology and Management, 466, 118122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118122 ↩

  16. Deza-Araujo, M., Morales-Molino, C., Tinner, W., Henne, P. D., Heitz, C., Pezzatti, G. B., … Conedera, M. (2020). A critical assessment of human-impact indices based on anthropogenic pollen indicators. Quaternary Science Reviews, 236, 106291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106291 ↩

  17. Yang, D., & Bright, J. M. (2020). Worldwide validation of 8 satellite-derived and reanalysis solar radiation products: A preliminary evaluation and overall metrics for hourly data over 27 years. Solar Energy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2020.04.016 ↩

  18. Enkhbayar, A., Haustein, S., Barata, G., & Alperin, J. P. (2020). How much research shared on Facebook happens outside of public pages and groups? A comparison of public and private online activity around PLOS ONE papers. Quantitative Science Studies, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00044 ↩

  19. Van den Berg, S. J. P., Rendal, C., Focks, A., Butler, E., Peeters, E. T. H. M., De Laender, F., & Van den Brink, P. J. (2020). Potential impact of chemical stress on freshwater invertebrates: A sensitivity assessment on continental and national scale based on distribution patterns, biological traits, and relatedness. Science of The Total Environment, 731, 139150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139150 ↩

  20. Carroll, H. M., Wanamaker, A. D., Clark, L. G., & Wilsey, B. J. (2020). Ragweed and sagebrush pollen can distinguish between vegetation types at broad spatial scales. Ecosphere, 11(5). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3120 ↩

  21. Kang, W., Zhang, M., Wang, Q., Gu, D., Huang, Z., Wang, H., … Jin, X. (2020). The SLC Family Are Candidate Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. BioMed Research International, 2020, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/1932948 ↩

  22. Feldmann, M. J., Hardigan, M. A., Famula, R. A., López, C. M., Tabb, A., Cole, G. S., & Knapp, S. J. (2020). Multi-dimensional machine learning approaches for fruit shape phenotyping in strawberry. GigaScience, 9(5). https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giaa030 ↩

  23. Marple, T. (2020). The social management of complex uncertainty: Central Bank similarity and crisis liquidity swaps at the Federal Reserve. The Review of International Organizations. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11558-020-09378-x ↩

  24. Bubac, C. M., Miller, J. M., & Coltman, D. W. (2020). The genetic basis of animal behavioural diversity in natural populations. Molecular Ecology, 29(11), 1957–1971. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15461 ↩

  25. Liu, Y., Wang, L., Lo, K.-W., & Lui, V. W. Y. (2020). Omics-wide quantitative B-cell infiltration analyses identify GPR18 for human cancer prognosis with superiority over CD20. Communications Biology, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-0964-7 ↩

  26. Callaghan, T., Karch, A., & Kroeger, M. (2020). Model State Legislation and Intergovernmental Tensions over the Affordable Care Act, Common Core, and the Second Amendment. Publius: The Journal of Federalism. https://doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjaa012 ↩

  27. Rogers, A., O. Aburto-Oropeza, et al. 2020. Critical Habitats and Biodiversity: Inventory, Thresholds and Governance. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. https://www.oceanpanel.org/blue-papers/critical-habitats-and-biodiversity-inventory-thresholds-and-governance ↩

  28. Holzmeyer, L., Hartig, A.-K., Franke, K., Brandt, W., Muellner-Riehl, A. N., Wessjohann, L. A., & Schnitzler, J. (2020). Evaluation of plant sources for antiinfective lead compound discovery by correlating phylogenetic, spatial, and bioactivity data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(22), 12444–12451. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915277117 ↩

  29. Bramlett, B. H., & Burge, R. P. (2020). God Talk in a Digital Age: How Members of Congress Use Religious Language on Twitter. Politics and Religion, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1755048320000231 ↩

  30. Vogler, D., Udris, L., & Eisenegger, M. (2020). Measuring Media Content Concentration at a Large Scale Using Automated Text Comparisons. Journalism Studies, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2020.1761865 ↩