Oct 26, 2015
Software
- A new version (
2.0.4
) ofRNeXML
is on CRAN. See NEWS for changes. - A new package (version
0.1.0
)ckanr
is on CRAN. This package is an R client for the CKAN API. CKAN is an open source data portal platform. See the README for an introduction to the package. Repository on GitHub. - A new package (version
0.1.0
)wellknown
is on CRAN. This package converts WKT to GeoJSON and vice versa, including making WKT from R objects like lists and data.frame’s. It doesn’t depend on GDAL/GEOS, so installation should be easy everywhere. See our tutorial for an introduction to the package. Repository on GitHub.
Community
- We will have our 8th community call on December 2nd at 9 am PST with Karissa McKelvey talking about dat. More details at ropensci/commcalls#8.
rOpenSci HQ
- We added Lincoln Mullen to our review board.
- Our packages page got an update, with some new packages and some now on CRAN.
Use cases
Some uses of our software found perusing GitHub:
gistr
- switchrGist - A plugin for the
switchr
R package allowing users to publish manifests as gists
- switchrGist - A plugin for the
geojsonio
- mapshaper_htmlwidget - An import in an htmlwidget for mapshaper, the JS library for editing Shapefile, GeoJSON and TopoJSON files
ckanr
- DSPCkan - an R client for the http://www.dsp.im/ CKAN based data portal
rcrossref
- openapc-de Collect and disseminate information on fee-based Open Access publishing
rcrossref
andaRxiv
- crawling-framework A framework incorporating ropensci modules and several API’s to crawl bibliographic data