Sep 28, 2015

Software

• Version 1.0 of rentrez 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) of bold is on CRAN. See the release notes for changes.
• A new version (0.5.4) of rplos is on CRAN. Minor change in the version of solr package required. See the release notes for changes.
• A new version (0.3.4) of rvertnet is on CRAN. New function vert_id() to get occurrence records by single occurrence IDs. See the release notes for changes.
• A new version (1.4.0) of neotoma is on CRAN. See NEWS for changes.
• A new version (0.0.3.1) of webchem 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.