Oct 24, 2016

Software

New packages

• A new package sofa (v1.0) is on CRAN. sofa provides an interface to the NoSQL database CouchDB (http://couchdb.apache.org). sofa targets Couch v2 and greater, but some functionality will work with older Couch versions. Check out the intro vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub

Releases

• A new version (0.5.4) of ritis is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. This version includes a single change: ITIS updated some of their API endpoints to use https. Please do upgrade! Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (0.2.0) of rredlist is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. This version adds new methods rl_history() and its companion rl_history_(). In addition, there’s a minor improvement, and an important bug fix that was affecting Windows users. Windows users are especially encouraged to upgrade. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (0.6.5) of rnoaa is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. This version includes a major bug fix in which binary installations introduced the wrong cache path for those functions that used rappdirs for determining the cache path. This was introduced recently when the cache path was initialized on package build. This is now fixed. Everyone should upgrade. 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:

• rdpla > Client for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
  • Author: Scott Chamberlain
  • Issue: ropensci/onboarding#71
  • Reviewers:
    • Jason Becker
    • Francois Michonneau

The following packages were recently submitted to our onboarding process and are undergoing review:

• GSODR > Global Summary Daily Weather Data in R
  • Author: Adam Sparks
  • Issue: ropensci/onboarding#79
  • Reviewers:
    • Jeff Hanson
    • Dillon Niederhut
• EML > Read and Write Ecological Metadata Language Files
  • Author: Carl Boettiger
  • Issue: ropensci/onboarding#80
  • Reviewers:
    • Gabe Becker
    • Corinna Gries

Use cases

One recent thesis cites rOpenSci:

• Döhmen, T.R. cites testdat in their thesis Multi-hypothesis parsing of tabular data in comma-separated values (CSV) files

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