Feb 29, 2016

Software

• A new package (version 0.1.0) geoaxe is on CRAN. geoaxe makes it easy to split geospatial objects (polygons) into pieces. For an intro to the package see the vignette. The immediate use case we have is to make it easy to chop up polygons to use in requests for open data on the web when the data provider limits the length of a polygon specification (usually in WKT). Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (1.0.1) of rentrez is on CRAN. See the the release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (0.5.6) of rplos is on CRAN. See the the release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (0.2) of rfisheries is on CRAN. See the NEWS for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (2.4-1) of clifro is on CRAN. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (1.5.0) of neotoma is on CRAN. See the NEWS for changes. Repository on GitHub.

Community

• We will have our 9th community call this Wednesday, March 2nd, at 9 am PST with Dr. Jenny Bryan talking about her Google Spreadsheets R API. More details at ropensci/commcalls#9.

Use cases

One recent book cites rOpenSci software:

• Wegmann, M. et al. cite a number of rOpenSci packages (rgbif, spocc, rebird, rfishbase, rWBclimate, rnoaa) in their book Remote sensing and GIS for ecologists: using open source software ¹

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