May 23, 2016

rOpenSci HQ

• We’ve added six new people to our Community page ropensci.org/community - All from new packages contributed via our onboarding/software review process. Welcome Maëlle, Javier, David, Peter, Mark, and Gordon!

Software

• A new package eechidna (v0.1) is on CRAN. eechidna gets data from the 2013 Australian Federal Election (House of Representatives) and the 2011 Australian Census. Includes tools for visualizing and analysing the data. For an introduction to the package see the five vignettes (CRAN link above). Repository on GitHub.
• A new package gutenbergr (v0.1.1) is on CRAN. gutenbergr helps you download and process public domain works from the Project Gutenberg collection. For an introduction to the package see the vignette. Repository on GitHub.
• A new package opencage (v0.1) is on CRAN. opencage includes tools for accessing the OpenCage API, which provides forward geocoding (from placename to longitude and latitude) and reverse geocoding (from longitude and latitude to placename). For an introduction to the package see the vignette. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (1.0.1) of datapack is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (3.6.0) of plotly is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (0.15.0) of git2r is on CRAN. See NEWS for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (1.5.1) of taxize is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (0.2.3) of jqr is on CRAN. See release notes for changes - Just a minor release to fix warnings on R CMD CHECK. Repository on GitHub.

Onboarding

We accept community contributed packages via our onboarding system - a software review system, sorta like scholarly paper review, but way better. We’ll highlight new pacakages here that have come through this system. A huge thanks to our reviewers, who do a lot of work reviewing (see the blog post on our review system), and the authors of the packages!

The following are rOpenSci packages that have recently gone through our onboarding process:

• gutenbergr
  • Author: David Robinson
  • Review: ropensci/onboarding#41
  • Reviewer: Maëlle Salmon
• convertr
  • Author: Gordon Shotwell
  • Review: ropensci/onboarding#40
  • Reviewer: Dean Attali
• osmplotr
  • Author: Mark Padgham
  • Review: ropensci/onboarding#27
  • Reviewer: Jeff Hollister

Use cases

Two recent papers cite and/or use rOpenSci software (or reference rOpenSci):

• Butterfield et al. cite and use rgbif (our GBIF R client) in their paper Prestoration: using species in restoration that will persist now and into the future ¹
• Drost et al. cite taxize (the taxonomic toolbelt for R) in their paper Capturing Evolutionary Signatures in Transcriptomes with myTAI ²

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