Mar 14, 2016
rOpenSci HQ
- We’re hiring a community manager! Read about the position on our blog to find out more. Informal questions and inquiries welcome at
jobs at ropensci org
. - For the first time, we have an rOpenSci unconference in Australia. It will be 21-22 April in Brisbane. If you want to go be sure to apply before April 1st at auunconf.ropensci.org/#apply. Read more about the event on our blog in a post by Nicholas Tierney.
- We’ve done a few rOpenSci office hours. The last one we had two people! We’d like to keep the momentum going. Join us this week! Thursday at 9 AM PST
Software
- A new version (
0.7.4
) oftaxize
is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. This version adds a new functionlowest_common()
to obtain the lowest common taxon and rank for a set of taxon names or IDs; now usingrredlist
for IUCN Red List data; fixes toiucn_*()
functions; lots of improvements and bug fixes. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
0.1.0
) ofwebchem
is on CRAN. See the the release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
0.1.6
) oflawn
is on CRAN. See the the release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
0.2
) ofpdftools
is on CRAN. See the NEWS for changes. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
2.0.6
) ofRNeXML
is on CRAN. See the NEWS for changes. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
0.1.1
) ofscrubr
is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
0.2.9
) ofrglobi
is on CRAN. See the NEWS for changes. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
0.14.0
) ofgit2r
is on CRAN. See the NEWS for changes. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
3.4.1
) ofplotly
is on CRAN. See the NEWS for changes. Repository on GitHub.
Community
- Video and notes from our 9th community call are up on Vimeo on our community calls channel. The recording was a bit longer than normal, so it’s split up into two parts: part 1 and part 2.
CRAN dependencies
- gistr has a new package that imports it on CRAN: rbokeh - an R interface to Bokeh http://hafen.github.io/rbokeh/.
Use cases
One recent paper cites rOpenSci software:
- Sessa and Der cite and use chromer (an R client for interacting with the chromosome counts database) in their paper Evolutionary Genomics of Ferns and Lycophytes 1
References
-
Sessa, E. B., & Der, J. P. (2016). Evolutionary Genomics of Ferns and Lycophytes. Advances in Botanical Research. doi:10.1016/bs.abr.2016.02.001 https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.abr.2016.02.001 ↩