Apr 10, 2017
Software
Releases
- A new version (
v1.2
) ofpdftools
is on CRAN. See release notes for the details. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
v0.3.4
) ofcrul
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
) ofhddtools
is on CRAN. See release notes for details. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
v1.0.2.1
) ofGSODR
is on CRAN. See release notes for details. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
v1.0.2.1
) ofaRxiv
is on CRAN. See release notes for details. Repository on GitHub. - A new version (
v1.0.1
) ofdatapack
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:
- 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:
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 ifelse
s 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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Footnotes
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Balao, F., Trucchi, E., Wolfe, T., Hao, B.-H., Lorenzo, M. T., Baar, J., … Paun, O. (2017). Adaptive sequence evolution is driven by biotic stress in a pair of orchid species (Dactylorhiza) with distinct ecological optima. Molecular Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14123 ↩
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Bartomeus, I., Cariveau, D., Harrison, T., & Winfree, R. (2016). On the inconsistency of pollinator species traits for predicting either response to agricultural intensification or functional contribution. https://doi.org/10.1101/072132 ↩
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Vogler, E., Schindler, C., Botte, A., & Rittberger, M. (2017, March). Are Altmetrics Effective in Transdisciplinary Research Fields?. In Everything Changes, Everything Stays the Same? Understanding Information Spaces. Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium of Information Science (ISI 2017)-(isi2017). Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/conferences/isi2017/vogler-elisabeth-203/PDF/vogler.pdf ↩