Dec 5, 2016
Software
Releases
- A new version (
1.6.2
) ofRSelenium
is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
0.2-1
) ofdbhydroR
is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
0.2-1
) ofoai
is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. This version includes new parsers specifically targetingoai_dc
andoai_datacite
, and some minor improvements. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
0.6.4
) ofrplos
is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. This version updates to new URLs used by PLOS, and fixes a content-type check as some XML returned a non-typical content-type. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
1.0
) ofpdftools
is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
0.3.2
) ofrobotstxt
is on CRAN. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
1.0.3
) ofrnbn
is on CRAN. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
0.5.1
) ofgender
is on CRAN. See release notes for changes (a bug fix). Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
3.0-0
) ofclifro
is on CRAN. 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 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!
If you want to be a reviewer we have a new form you can fill out, and we’ll ping you when there’s a submission that fits in your area of expertise.
There haven’t been any submissions or approved packages since last news - so please do submit your packages! At least ask questions if you’re not sure how it works, or if your package is a good fit.
Use cases
A few recent papers cite rOpenSci packages:
- Harsch and HilleRisLambers use and cite geonames in their paper Climate Warming and Seasonal Precipitation Change Interact to Limit Species Distribution Shifts across Western North America 1
- Ummel used and cited geonames in their white paper CARMA revisited: an updated database of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants worldwide 2
- Curtis & Bradley use and cite rgbif in their paper Plant Distribution Data Show Broader Climatic Limits than Expert-Based Climatic Tolerance Estimates 3
- O’Neill cites rOpenSci in her article NISO Recommended Practice: Outputs of the Alternative Assessment Metrics Project 4
- Costello et al. reference taxize in their book chapter Methods for the Study of Marine Biodiversity in The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks 5
- Liang et al. use and cite taxize in their paper Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests 6
- Boehmke references rOpenSci in his book Data Wrangling with R 7
Keep up with rOpenSci news
There are a number of ways to keep up with what rOpenSci is doing:
- Mailing list: Sign up with an email address to get new blog posts sent to your inbox -> ropensci.org/#subscribe
- rOpenSci on Twitter: we’re @ropensci
- 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.
Footnotes
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Harsch, M. A., & HilleRisLambers, J. (2016). Climate Warming and Seasonal Precipitation Change Interact to Limit Species Distribution Shifts across Western North America. PLOS ONE, 11(7), e0159184. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159184 ↩
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Ummel, K. (2012). CARMA revisited: an updated database of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants worldwide. Center for Global Development Working Paper, (304). http://www.cgdev.org/publication/carma-revisited-updated-database-carbon-dioxide-emissions-power-plants-worldwide-working ↩
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Curtis, C. A., & Bradley, B. A. (2016). Plant Distribution Data Show Broader Climatic Limits than Expert-Based Climatic Tolerance Estimates. PLOS ONE, 11(11), e0166407. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166407 ↩
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O’Neill, Jill (2016) “NISO Recommended Practice: Outputs of the Alternative Assessment Metrics Project” Collaborative Librarianship: Vol. 8: Iss. 3, Article 4. http://digitalcommons.du.edu/collaborativelibrarianship/vol8/iss3/4 ↩
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Costello, M. J., Basher, Z., McLeod, L., Asaad, I., Claus, S., Vandepitte, L., et al. (2017). Methods for the Study of Marine Biodiversity. In The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks (pp. 129-163). Springer International Publishing. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-27288-7_6 ↩
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Liang, J., Crowther, T. W., Picard, N., Wiser, S., Zhou, M., Alberti, G., et al. (2016). Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests. Science, 354(6309), aaf8957–aaf8957. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf8957 ↩
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Boehmke, B. (2016). Data Wrangling with R. http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-45599-0 ↩