Nov 9, 2015
Software
We have two new packages on CRAN, both of which went through our review process (see links below).
- A new package (version
0.1.2
)textreuse
from Lincoln Mullen is on CRAN. This package is an R client for measuring similarity among documents and detecting passages which have been reused. There’s a variety of vignettes, from an introduction to the package to Minhash and locality-sensitive hashing. Repository on GitHub. Link to review. - Another new package (first version
0.0.2
)stplanr
is on CRAN. Data access and processing tools for transport planning, including origin-destination analysis, route allocation and modelling travel patterns. See the vignette for an introduction to the package. Repository on GitHub. Link to review.
Documentation
- We are working on more cheat sheets, for
spocc
,rgbif
, and more. We’ll have drafts of these soon, so let us know if you have any feedback on those in the works, or if you want a cheat sheet we don’t have yet at ropensci/cheatsheets.
rOpenSci in the news
- gender (by our community member Lincoln Mullen) was discussed in a blog post by the website Voxxed: https://www.voxxed.com/blog/2015/11/how-packages-make-r-complete/
Use cases
A new R package uses an rOpenSci package:
- taxize is a dependency in a newish R package MonoPhy for exploring monophyly in a taxonomic group, and data for the monophy tutorial are based on a (pay-walled) paper from the author.
A few recent papers cite rOpenSci software:
- Brian O’Meara et al. have a paper titled Evolutionary models for the retention of adult–adult social play in primates: The roles of diet and other factors associated with resource acquisition in which they use and cite taxize 1
- Dellinger et al. have a paper titled Niche dynamics of alien species do not differ among sexual and apomictic flowering plants in which they use and cite rgbif 2
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O’Meara, Brian C., et al. “Evolutionary models for the retention of adult–adult social play in primates: The roles of diet and other factors associated with resource acquisition.” Adaptive Behavior (2015): 1059712315611733. doi:10.1177/1059712315611733 ↩
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Dellinger, Agnes S., et al. “Niche dynamics of alien species do not differ among sexual and apomictic flowering plants.” New Phytologist (2015). doi:10.1111/nph.13694 ↩