Jan 17, 2017

Software

New packages

• A new package xslt (v1.0) is on CRAN. xslt is an extension for the xml2 package to transform XML documents by applying an XSL stylesheet. Check out Jeroen’s recent blog post to get started. Repository on GitHub
• A new package rjsonapi (v0.1.0) is on CRAN. rjsonapi is an R client for APIs that follow the JSONAPI spec. The client is mostly for consuming data from JSON APIs, but there is an experimental server using plumber, which will in future help you serve a JSON API. There’s not a lot of public APIs following JSON API right now, but there likely will be in the future. Check out the README to get started. Repository on GitHub

Releases

• A new version (v0.1.4) of natserv is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (v0.1.7-3) of stplanr is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (v0.4.0) of bold is on CRAN. This version includes a new function bold_identify_parents() to add taxonomic hierarchy information to the output of bold_identify(). See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (v0.1.2) of europepmc is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (v3.1-2) of clifro is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (v1.2) of graphql is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (v0.3.0) of rredlist is on CRAN. This version adds rl_occ_country() and rl_occ_country_() and now uses crul as its HTTP client. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (v1.1.2) of rnbn is on CRAN. This version adds a startup message to notify users about rnbn being archived soon - a new package will replace it - based on a new UK NBN backend. 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.

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

• visdat > makes it easy to visualise your whole dataset so that you can visually identify problems
  • Author: Nicholas Tierney
  • Issue: ropensci/onboarding#87
  • Reviewers:
    • Sean Hughes
    • Mara Averick

Use cases

Two blog posts and many new (and some old) papers cite rOpenSci packages:

• Ummel cited geonames in his white paper CARMA Revisited: An Updated Database of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Power Plants Worldwide. ¹
• LeBauer et al. use and cite our traits package in their paper BETYdb: a yield, trait, and ecosystem service database applied to second-generation bioenergy feedstock production ²
• Oyungerel Munkhbat (with Maëlle Salmon’s help) used ropenaq in her piece Putting a magnifying glass on air pollution 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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