Aug 15, 2016
Software
New packages
- A new package
mregions
(v0.1.0
) is on CRAN.mregions
is an R client for searching for and retrieving marine regions information and data. Data comes from http://www.marineregions.org/ and Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) geoserver. The main product given back in the package to the user are shape, geojson, or wkt data that can be used downstream to map/analyze other data. For an introduction to the package see the vignette. Repository on GitHub.
Releases
- A new version (
0.4
) ofpdftools
is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
3.0-0
) ofclifro
is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub. - Two new versions (
0.2.0
&0.2.1
) ofmagick
have hit CRAN since our last news post. See NEWS for changes. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
0.7.2
) ofelastic
is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
1.0.2
) ofassertr
is on CRAN. 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 packages recently went through our onboarding process and have been approved:
- genbankr – on BioC
- Author: Gabe Becker
- Issue: ropensci/onboarding#47
- Reviewer: David Winter
- tokenizers
- Author: Lincoln Mullen
- Issue: ropensci/onboarding#33
- Reviewer: Kevin Ushey
- mregions
- Author: Scott Chamberlain
- Issue: ropensci/onboarding#53
- Reviewer: Michael Sumner
- getlandsat
- Author: Scott Chamberlain
- Issue: ropensci/onboarding#58
- Reviewer: Andee Kaplan
The following packages were recently submitted to our onboarding process and are undergoing review:
- dbhydroR
- Author: Joseph Stachelek
- Issue: ropensci/onboarding#61
- Reviewers:
- rdefra
- Author: Claudia Vitolo
- Issue: ropensci/onboarding#68
- Reviewers:
Use cases
Four recent papers and one poster/shiny app cite and/or use rOpenSci software:
- Jahn and Tullney cite rcrossref in paper A study of institutional spending on open access publication fees in Germany 1
- Groom et al. cite rgbif in a paper Is citizen science an open science in the case of biodiversity observations? 2
- Bosch et al. have created a Shiny application Marinespeed that uses a rgbif and Reol. Check out the code for the Shiny app and a recent poster for the app
- Pirhadi et al. cite webchem in a paper Open Source Molecular Modeling 3
- Wais cites gender in a paper Gender Prediction Methods Based on First Names with genderizeR 4
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Footnotes
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Jahn, N., & Tullney, M. (2016). A study of institutional spending on open access publication fees in Germany. PeerJ, 4, e2323. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2323 ↩
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Groom, Q., Weatherdon, L., & Geijzendorffer, I. R. (2016). Is citizen science an open science in the case of biodiversity observations? Journal of Applied Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12767 ↩
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Pirhadi, S., Sunseri, J., & Koes, D. R. (2016). Open Source Molecular Modeling. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmgm.2016.07.008 ↩
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Wais, Kamil. (in press) Gender Prediction Methods Based on First Names with genderizeR. The R Journal. ↩