Dec 5, 2016

Software

Releases

• A new version (1.6.2) of RSelenium is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (0.2-1) of dbhydroR is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (0.2-1) of oai is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. This version includes new parsers specifically targeting oai_dc and oai_datacite, and some minor improvements. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (0.6.4) of rplos 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) of pdftools is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (0.3.2) of robotstxt is on CRAN. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (1.0.3) of rnbn is on CRAN. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (0.5.1) of gender is on CRAN. See release notes for changes (a bug fix). Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (3.0-0) of clifro 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
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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.

Footnotes