rOpenSci HQ

  • We welcome package submissions to the rOpenSci suite through a new process. We have always accepted packages, but we now have a more streamlined setup. Go to our onboarding repository, and follow instructions in the README on how to submit. The process is all GitHub based: submit your package as a new issue in onboarding, we assign a reviewer or two, and hold a discussion of the submission in the issue itself. We have more clear guidelines to follow for creating packages.

Software

  • A new package (version 0.1.0) geojsonio is on CRAN. This package helps you convert data.frame’s, lists, numeric vectors, and many spatial data classes (from packages sp, rgeos) to GeoJSON, either as lists, json, or json written to disk. See the vignette for an introduction to the package. Repository on GitHub.
  • A new package (version 0.1.0) is on CRAN: rerdddap (http://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/rerddap/). This package is a general interface for working with ERDDAP servers - basically, many different groups provide data through this open source technology, and this package will let you query and fetch data from any of them. See here for an introduction to ERDDAP. See the vignette for an introduction to the package. Repository on GitHub.
  • A new package (version 1.2-0) neotoma is on CRAN. This is an R client to interact with the Neotoma Paleoecological Database. See the article by the package authors for information on the Neotoma database, and an introduction to the package. Repository on GitHub.
  • A new version (0.2.6) of bold is on CRAN. See the release notes for changes. This is a minor update, focus on fixes to bold_trace(). Repository on GitHub.
  • A new version (0.4.7) of rplos is on CRAN. See the release notes for changes. This is a minor update, but includes a new function citations() to get data from the PLOS Rich Citations API. Repository on GitHub.
  • A new version (0.4.0) of elastic is on CRAN. See the release notes for changes. This is a relatively major update, including the new function Search_uri() for when POST requests are blocked on a server (which the Search() function uses), an update to docs_bulk() to load data directly from a data.frame or list to Elasticsearch via the bulk API. Repository on GitHub.
  • A new version (0.2.0) of gistr is on CRAN. See the release notes for changes. This is a major update, including: gist_reate() can now include source when knit=TRUE, new function gist_create_obj() posts gists directly from R objects (e.g., data.frame, list), new function gist_map() opens a full page map locally from a geojson gist, and new function tabl() coerces gist data (including commits) into a data.frame for easy manipulation. Repository on GitHub.
  • A new version (2.0.2) of RNeXML is on CRAN. See CRAN page NEWS for changes. Repository on GitHub.
  • A new version (0.10.1) of git2r is on CRAN. See the diff for changes since last version on CRAN. Repository on GitHub.

Community

Use cases, questions, and answers