Sep 28, 2016

rOpenSci HQ

We’re hiring a postdoc! Check out our blog for a description of the position and what we’re looking for.

The postdoctoral scholar will focus on a research topic aligned with their own interests in order to better understand and improve scientific software practices.

Software

New packages

• A new version (0.6) of ezknitr is on CRAN. This is not the first version of this package, but it is the first version of this package within our suite. See the vignette for an introduction to the package. Repository on GitHub.

Releases

• A new version (0.1.3) of ropenaq is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (3.0.1) of rotl is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (0.3.0) of rorcid is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (1.6.2) of neotoma is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (0.5.0) of rvertnet is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (4.5.2) of plotly is on CRAN. See the NEWS 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 packages 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:

• ezknitr > Avoid the Typical Working Directory Pain When Using ‘knitr’
  • Author: Dean Attali
  • Issue: ropensci/onboarding#56
  • Reviewers:
    • Tiffany Timbers
    • Karthik Ram

Use cases

Three recent papers cite and/or use rOpenSci software:

• Sanyal and Decocq use and cite rgbif in their paper Adaptive evolution of seed oil content in angiosperms: accounting for the global patterns of seed oils ¹
• Antonelli et al. cite rOpenSci in their paper Towards a Self-Updating Platform for Estimating Rates of Speciation and Migration, Ages, and Relationships of Taxa (SUPERSMART) ²
• Springer et al. use and cite paleobioDB in their paper Waking the undead: implications of a soft explosive model for the timing of placental mammal diversification ³

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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