Update 2016-06-06

Software

A new package riem (v0.1.0) is on CRAN. riem accesses weather data from the Iowa Environment Mesonet. For an introduction to the package see the introduction vignette. Repository on GitHub.
A new version (1.10.0) of ecoengine is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub.
A new version (0.1.2) of stplanr is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub.
A new version (0.2.1) of osmplotr is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. 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:

riem
- Author: Maëlle Salmon
- Review: ropensci/onboarding#39
- Reviewer: Brooke Anderson

Use cases

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

Wagner et al. cite and use taxize (our taxonomic toolbelt for R) in their paper Climate seasonality limits leaf carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests ¹
Hartgerink et al. cite and use rplos in their paper Distributions of P-values smaller than .05 in psychology: what is going on? ²
Pie cites and uses our AntWeb package in their paper The macroevolution of climatic niches and its role in ant diversification ³
Read et al. mention rOpenSci and cite paleobioDB in their paper geoknife: reproducible web-processing of large gridded datasets ⁴

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Footnotes

Wagner, F. H., Hérault, B., Bonal, D., et al. (2016). Climate seasonality limits leaf carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests. Biogeosciences, 13(8), 2537–2562. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2537-2016 ↩
Hartgerink, C. H. J., van Aert, R. C. M., Nuijten, M. B., Wicherts, J. M., & van Assen, M. A. L. M. (2016). Distributions ofp-values smaller than .05 in psychology: what is going on? PeerJ, 4, e1935. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1935 ↩
Pie, M. R. (2016). The macroevolution of climatic niches and its role in ant diversification. Ecological Entomology, 41(3), 301–307. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12306 ↩
Read, J. S., Walker, J. I., Appling, A. P., Blodgett, D. L., Read, E. K., & Winslow, L. A. (2015). geoknife: reproducible web-processing of large gridded datasets. Ecography, 39(4), 354–360. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.01880 ↩