Apr 13, 2015
Software
- A new package (version
0.2.6
) is on CRAN:rglobi
(http://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/rglobi). See the vignette for an introduction to the package. - A new package (version
0.1.2
)internetarchive
is on CRAN. See the vignette for an introduction to the package. - A new version (
1.9.1
) ofecoengine
is on CRAN. See the release notes for changes.
Community
- We have our third community call coming up this Wednesday (2015-04-15), in which Hadley Wickham will talk about data ingestion. More info.
- If you have any ideas for upcoming community calls, get back to us in the issues of the community calls repo.
- We added a new person to our community page, Kyle Hamilton, for his contributions RStars, and RCryptsy. Kyle, who lives in California, had a great idea to help create easy ways to programatically acquire water resource information given the drought in California. Checkout the discussion.
- Ben Marwick had a great idea to make an R client for interacting with the Open Dat Kit (ODK) and the ODK Collect application. Checkout the discussion and the wishlist page.
rOpenSci HQ
- We held our 2nd annual rOpenSci unconference 26-27 March in San Francisco. It was a smashing success. We discussed projects in the ropensci/unconf repo if you want to see what was done - projects included discussions as well as making software. We’ll soon have a blog post discussing the event, so look out for that.
- We now use
https
instead ofhttp
for our website (http://ropensci.org/), and our discussion forum (https://discuss.ropensci.org/). Let us know if you run into any problems due tohttps
on either of those sites.
Use cases, questions, and answers
- We have a new screencast. It is for the
elastic
package, an R client for Elasticsearch. Find the screencast at https://ropensci.github.io/screencasts/elastic/. Let us know if you have any feedback on screencasts.