Sep 12, 2016

Software

New packages

• A new package monkeylearn (v0.1.1) is on CRAN. monkeylearn provides access the Monkeylearn API for text classifiers and extractors. Maintained by Maëlle Salmon. For an introduction to the package see the introductory vignette. Repository on GitHub.

Releases

• A new version (0.1.1) of riem hit CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (2.0) of hunspell is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Make sure to checkout the new vignette. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (0.3) of magick is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Check out the new magick vignette. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (0.1.3) of treebase is on CRAN. See the news for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (0.5.0) of paleobioDB is on CRAN. See the news for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (0.6.0) of rnoaa is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. This version of rnoaa gains a suite of functions prefixed with meteo_ that help users deal with GHCND data. In addition, this version makes isd_stations_search() much faster; a fix to seaice(); and more. 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 package recently went through our onboarding process and has been approved:

• monkeylearn
  • Author: Maëlle Salmon
  • Issue: ropensci/onboarding#45
  • Reviewers:
    • Thomas Leeper

The following was recently submitted to our onboarding process and is undergoing review:

• hddtools
  • Author: Claudia Vitolo
  • Issue: ropensci/onboarding#73
  • Reviewers:
    • Michael Sumner
    • Erin LeDell

Use cases

Four recent papers and one poster/shiny app cite and/or use rOpenSci software:

• Macdonald references rOpenSci in his thesis Abiotic and biotic factors creating variation among bromeliad communities ¹
• Rachael Lammey references rOpenSci and rcrossref in her paper Using the Crossref Metadata API to explore publisher content ²
• Winslow et al. cite rfigshare and ckanr in their paper Using the Crossref Metadata API to explore publisher content ³
• Foster et al. cite taxize in their paper MetacodeR: An R package for manipulation and heat tree visualization of community taxonomic data from metabarcoding ⁴

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