Feb 13, 2017

rOpenSci Unconference

From 25-26 May, we’re having our fourth annual rOpenSci unconference https://ropensci.org/blog/blog/2017/02/02/unconf2017 in Los Angeles, CA.

If you’d like to attend, it only takes a few minutes to nominate yourself. Submissions close Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at midnight Pacific Time. Hashtag for the event is #runconf17. If you have any questions, contact us at info at ropensci org

rOpenSci Community Calls

Our 14th community call is coming up in March. The topic is How to ask questions so they get answered! Possibly by yourself!, with special guests Jenny Bryan and JD Long. Check out community call #14 for details.

Software

Releases

• A new version (v0.1.4) of treebase is on CRAN. See NEWS for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (v0.5) of hddtools is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (v0.2-2) of dbhydroR is on CRAN. See NEWS for changes. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (v0.3.2) of geojsonio is on CRAN. See release notes for changes. This version fixes some tests. See the geojsonio vignettes to get started. 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:

• getCRUCLdata > download and Use CRU CL2.0 Climatology Data in R
  • Author: Adam Sparks
  • Issue: ropensci/onboarding#96
  • Reviewers:
    • Laura DeCicco
    • Ivan Hanigan

Use Cases

A thesis, three papers, and a book chapter use/cite rOpenSci packages:

• Monya Baker references rOpenSci in her article Scientific computing: Code alert ¹
• Mayor et al. used our package brranching in their paper Elevation alters ecosystem properties across temperate treelines globally ²
• Eduard Szöcs cited our package taxize in his Ph.D. thesis Statistical eco (-toxico) logy: improving the utilisation of data for environmental risk assessment ³
• Réjou-Méchain et al. adapted code from taxize in the manuscript about their software BIOMASS BIOMASS: An R Package for estimating aboveground biomass and its uncertainty in tropical forests ⁴
• Puschmann & Ausserhofer referenced rOpenSci in their book chapter Social Data APIs ⁵

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.

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