Jun 20, 2016

Software

• A new package jsonvalidate (v1.0.0) is on CRAN. jsonvalidate wraps the Javascript library is-my-json-valid using V8 to do JSON schema validation in R. For an introduction to the package see the vignette. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (0.3.5) of dvn is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (0.7.8) of taxize is on CRAN. Note that you now need an API key when using some IUCN functions, see docs and release notes. 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:

• geoparser
  • Author: Maëlle Salmon
  • Review: ropensci/onboarding#43
  • Reviewer: Bob Rudis
• rnaturalearth
  • Author: Andy South
  • Review: ropensci/onboarding#22
  • Reviewers:
    • Lincoln Mullen
    • Robin Lovelace
• assertr
  • Author: Tony Fischetti
  • Review: ropensci/onboarding#23
  • Reviewer: Rich FitzJohn

Use cases

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

• Olson et al. cite rOpenSci in their paper Drivers of emerging infectious disease events as a framework for digital detection ¹
• Kamvar et al. cite rOpenSci in their paper Developing educational resources for population genetics in R: an open and collaborative approach ²
• Niedballa et al. cite and use our taxize package in their paper camtrapR: an R package for efficient camera trap data management ³
• Wiser et al. cite and use our taxize package in their paper Achievements and challenges in the integration, reuse and synthesis of vegetation plot data ⁴
• In a thesis titled Sklapanje genoma ogulinske špiljske spužvice (eunapius subterraneus) iz podataka dobivenih tehnologijom sekvenciranja nanoporama, Dora Šribar cites and uses our taxize package

Keep up with rOpenSci news

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• Mailing list: Sign up with an email address to get new blog posts sent to your inbox -> ropensci.org/#subscribe
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• The rOpenSci blog at ropensci.org/blog - you can subscribe in any RSS aggregator, or manually via https://ropensci.org/feed.xml. We also announce new blog posts on our Twitter account.

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