Software

  • A new version (2.0.4) of RNeXML 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

rOpenSci HQ

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
  • geojsonio
  • 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 and aRxiv
    • crawling-framework A framework incorporating ropensci modules and several API’s to crawl bibliographic data