Apr 10, 2017

Software

Releases

• A new version (v1.2) of pdftools is on CRAN. See release notes for the details. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (v0.3.4) of crul is on CRAN. This release includes new utility functions for parsing and building URLs; improved documentation; a new vignette; and some bug fixes. See release notes for details. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (v0.7) of hddtools is on CRAN. See release notes for details. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (v1.0.2.1) of GSODR is on CRAN. See release notes for details. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (v1.0.2.1) of aRxiv is on CRAN. See release notes for details. Repository on GitHub.
• A new version (v1.0.1) of datapack is on CRAN. See release notes for 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 packages were recently submitted to our onboarding process:

• iheatmapr > Interactive Complex Heatmaps
  • Author: Alicia Schep
  • Issue: ropensci/onboarding#107
  • Reviewers:
    • Andee Kaplan
    • Carl Ganz
• ccex > Client for the C-Cex Crypto-currency Exchange
  • Author: Michael Kane
  • Issue: ropensci/onboarding#109
  • Reviewers: not assigned yet

The following package recently went through our onboarding process and has been approved:

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

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 5th post came out last week, by Adam Sparks on his package GSODR - Everybody talks about the weather.

4th: 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

Three papers use/cite rOpenSci packages:

• Balao et al. used our package rgbif in their paper Adaptive sequence evolution is driven by biotic stress in a pair of orchid species (Dactylorhiza) with distinct ecological optima ¹
• Bartomeus et al. used our package taxize in their pre-print On the inconsistency of pollinator species traits for predicting either response to agricultural intensification or functional contribution. ²
• Vogler et al. used our package rAltmetric in their paper Are Altmetrics Effective in Transdisciplinary Research Fields?. In Everything Changes, Everything Stays the Same? ³

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