Sep 28, 2015
Software
- Version
1.0
ofrentrez
is on CRAN! This represents a lot of work (in commits this is: 357). Read the blog post about this release on the rOpenSci blog. - A new version (
0.3.0
) ofbold
is on CRAN. See the release notes for changes. - A new version (
0.5.4
) ofrplos
is on CRAN. Minor change in the version ofsolr
package required. See the release notes for changes. - A new version (
0.3.4
) ofrvertnet
is on CRAN. New functionvert_id()
to get occurrence records by single occurrence IDs. See the release notes for changes. - A new version (
1.4.0
) ofneotoma
is on CRAN. See NEWS for changes. - A new version (
0.0.3.1
) ofwebchem
is on CRAN. See NEWS for changes. And check out Eduard’s blog post about the new version on his blog.
Community
- We will have our 7th community call coming up on October 7th 9 am PST with Tony Fischetti talking about assertr. More details at ropensci/commcalls#7.
Use cases
A number of recent papers use/cite rOpenSci software:
- Carl Boettiger’s paper on docker titled An introduction to Docker for reproducible research is out in ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review.
- rOpenSci got mentions in a number of publiations and reports recently:
- Aleksandra Pawlik’s Crowdsourcing Scientific Software Documentation: A Case Study of the NumPy Documentation Project paper
- The Bioconductor 2015 annual report.
- The paper Connecting people and ideas from around the world: global innovation platforms for next-generation ecology and beyond by Jørgensen et al. in Ecosphere (bonus points for being in an open access journal).
- A paper titled Drivers of Emerging Infectious Disease Events as a Framework for Digital Detection in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.
- A paper Reproducibility and Its Application to Technical Service Processes in the journal Technical Services Quarterly.