Mar 28, 2017

Software

New packages

• A new package rif (v0.1.0) is on CRAN. rif is a client for Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) metadata - with functions for each API route, and gives back data in tidy data.frame format. Check out the rif vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub
• A new package rnaturalearth (v0.1.0) is on CRAN - maintained by Andy South. rnaturalearth is a client for Natural Earth data, a set of public domain vector map data available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Check out the rnaturalearth vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub
• rzmq, a package now maintained by rOpenSci (Jeroen Oooms), has a new version (v0.9.1) on CRAN. rzmq is an interface to the ZeroMQ lightweight messaging kernel (see http://www.zeromq.org/ for more information). Check out the README to get started. Repository on GitHub

Releases

• A new version (v1.0.0) of rdataretriever is on CRAN. Note that this is the first version of what used to be known as ecoretriever. See release notes for details. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (v3.1-3) of clifro is on CRAN. See release notes for the details. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (v2.0.2) of assertr is on CRAN. See the NEWS for the details. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (v1.1) of pdftools is on CRAN. See release notes for the details. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (v0.2) of webchem is on CRAN. See release notes for the details. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (v0.3.4) of rdefra is on CRAN. See the NEWS for details. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (v0.1.4) of europepmc is on CRAN. See release notes for the details. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (v1.4) of tesseract is on CRAN. See release notes for the details. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (v0.3.0) of wicket is on CRAN. See the NEWS for details. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (v0.4) of magick is on CRAN. See release notes for the details. 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:

• osmdata > Download OpenStreetMap data
  • Author: Mark Padgham
  • Issue: ropensci/onboarding#103
  • Reviewers:
    • Edzer Pebesma
    • Ramnath Vaidyanathan

On the blog

Onboarding series

We’re doing a series of guest blog posts for packages that have gone through our software review process at ropensci/onboarding.

The 4th post came out last week, by Lukas Lundstrom on his package camsRad - camsRad, satellite-based time series of solar irradiation.

3rd: Claudia Vitolo on her package hddtools - Discover hydrological data using the hddtools R package.

2nd: Maëlle Salmon on her package ropenaq - ropenaq, a breath of fresh air/R.

1st: Sean Hughes on his package plater - From a million nested ifelses to the plater package.

We’ll have more posts in this series coming out soon - keep an eye out.

Use Cases

Seven papers use/cite rOpenSci packages:

• Carvajal-Endara et al. used our package rgbif in their paper Habitat filtering not dispersal limitation shapes oceanic island floras: species assembly of the Galápagos archipelago ¹
• Galvez used our package rplos in her paper Assessing author self-citation as a mechanism of relevant knowledge diffusion ²
• Power et al. used our package taxize in their paper Environmental correlates of biome-level floristic turnover in South Africa ³
• Zenil-Ferguson et al. used our package chromer in their paper Testing the association of phenotypes with polyploidy: An example using herbaceous and woody eudicots ⁴
• Sparks et al. used our package GSODR in their paper GSODR: Global Summary Daily Weather Data in R ⁵
• Berlemont used our package taxize in their paper Distribution and diversity of enzymes for polysaccharide degradation in fungi ⁶
• Martin et al. used our package rfishbase in their paper Integrating lipid storage into general representations of fish energetics ⁷

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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Footnotes