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
) ofrdataretriever
is on CRAN. Note that this is the first version of what used to be known asecoretriever
. See release notes for details. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
v3.1-3
) ofclifro
is on CRAN. See release notes for the details. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
v2.0.2
) ofassertr
is on CRAN. See the NEWS for the details. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
v1.1
) ofpdftools
is on CRAN. See release notes for the details. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
v0.2
) ofwebchem
is on CRAN. See release notes for the details. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
v0.3.4
) ofrdefra
is on CRAN. See the NEWS for details. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
v0.1.4
) ofeuropepmc
is on CRAN. See release notes for the details. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
v1.4
) oftesseract
is on CRAN. See release notes for the details. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
v0.3.0
) ofwicket
is on CRAN. See the NEWS for details. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
v0.4
) ofmagick
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:
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 ifelse
s 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
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.
- rOpenSci news feed at https://news.ropensci.org/feed.xml
Footnotes
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Carvajal-Endara, S., Hendry, A. P., Emery, N. C., & Davies, T. J. (2017). Habitat filtering not dispersal limitation shapes oceanic island floras: species assembly of the Galápagos archipelago. Ecology Letters, 20(4), 495–504. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12753 ↩
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Gálvez, R. H. (2017). Assessing author self-citation as a mechanism of relevant knowledge diffusion. Scientometrics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-017-2330-1 ↩
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Power, S. C., Anthony Verboom, G., Bond, W. J., & Cramer, M. D. (2017). Environmental correlates of biome-level floristic turnover in South Africa. Journal of Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12971 ↩
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Zenil-Ferguson, R., Ponciano, J. M., & Burleigh, J. G. (2017). Testing the association of phenotypes with polyploidy: An example using herbaceous and woody eudicots. Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13226 ↩
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H Sparks, A., Hengl, T., & Nelson, A. (2017). GSODR: Global Summary Daily Weather Data in R. The Journal of Open Source Software, 2(10). https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00177 ↩
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Berlemont, R. (2017). Distribution and diversity of enzymes for polysaccharide degradation in fungi. Scientific Reports, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00258-w ↩
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Martin, B. T., Heintz, R., Danner, E. M., & Nisbet, R. M. (2017). Integrating lipid storage into general representations of fish energetics. Journal of Animal Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12667 ↩