Jun 22, 2015
UPDATE: Sorry for any confusion. This post is for 2015-06-22, whereas the URL slug has 2015-07-06.
Software
- A new package (version
0.1.0
)traits
is on CRAN.traits
is an R client to obtain species trait data from many different sources, including sequence data from NCBI, plant trait data from BETYdb, invasive species data from the Global Invasive Species Database and EOL, Traitbank data from EOL, Coral traits data, nativity status from Flora Europaea or ITIS, and bird data from Birdlife International. See the vignette for an introduction to the package. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
0.6.0
) oftaxize
is on CRAN. See the release notes for changes. - A new version (
0.3.7
) ofrfigshare
is on CRAN. - A new version (
0.4.0
) ofrnoaa
is on CRAN. See the release notes for changes. Of note: NOAA GHCN Daily data is now available inrnoaa
, and NOAA buoy data is available inrnoaa
(was previously on a development git branch, but is now available in the CRAN version). - A new version (
0.1.4
) ofrAvis
is on CRAN.
Community
- We have our 5th community call coming up on 2015-07-08, in which David Robinson will talk about broom, and Rich FitzJohn will talk about something cool. More info.
- If you have any ideas for upcoming community calls, get back to us in the issues of the community calls repo.