Apr 24, 2017
Software
New packages
- A new package
hoardr
(v0.1.0
) is on CRAN.hoardr
is a small package to manage cached files. It uses rappdirs to get paths that work across platforms. Check out the hoardr vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub
Releases
- A new version (
v0.9.8
) ofrgbif
is on CRAN. This version includes a biggish change in some functions that can accept two kinds of ways to pass in many values for a parameter. In addition, we dropped V8 dependency, replacing it with a WKT toolkit based in C++ wicket. This release changes to usingcrul
instead ofhttr
. See release notes for details. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
v0.5.4
) ofrbison
is on CRAN. This release changes to usingcrul
instead ofhttr
. See release notes for details. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
v1.2
) ofjsonld
is on CRAN. See release notes for details. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
v0.1.4
) ofropenaq
is on CRAN. See release notes for details. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
v0.3.4
) ofmapr
is on CRAN. This release changes to usingcrul
instead ofhttr
. See release notes for details. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
v0.8.0
) ofrbhl
is on CRAN. This version changes to usingcrul
instead ofhttr
, and removed two functionsbhl_getpartendnote
andbhl_gettitleendnote
methods removed due to their removal in the BHL API. See release notes for details. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
v2.1.2
) ofrfishbase
is on CRAN. See the NEWS for details. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
v0.7.0
) ofrAltmetric
is on CRAN. See release notes for details. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
v0.4.0
) ofgistr
is on CRAN. See release notes for details. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
v0.7.0
) ofspocc
is on CRAN. This version drops V8 dependency, replacing it with a WKT toolkit based in C++ wicket. In addition, replacedhttr
withcrul
for http requests. See release notes for details. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
v3.1-4
) ofclifro
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.
There haven’t been any submissions or approved packages since last news - it’s a good time to submit your package! At least ask questions if you’re not sure how it works, or if your package is a good fit.
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 7th post came out last week, by Thomas Leeper on his package tabulizer - Release ‘open’ data from their PDF prisons using tabulizer.
The 6th post came out almost two week’s ago, by Tony Fischetti on his package assertr - Data validation with the assertr package.
5th: 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
One blog post and two papers use/cite rOpenSci packages:
- Maëlle Salmon, one of our onboarding editors, wrote a very nice blog post including use of our packages scrubr and spocc: Mapping waxwings annual migration without Twitter 1
- Rosenthal et al. used our package taxize in their paper Taxonomic bias in animal behaviour publications 2
- Aedo & Pando mentioned rgbif in their paper A distribution and taxonomic reference dataset of Geranium in the New World 3
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Footnotes
-
Salmon, M. 2017. Mapping waxwings annual migration without Twitter. http://www.masalmon.eu/2017/04/08/spocc/ ↩
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Malcolm F. Rosenthal, Matthew Gertler, Angela D. Hamilton, Sonal Prasad, Maydianne C.B. Andrade, Taxonomic bias in animal behaviour publications. Animal Behaviour, Volume 127, 2017, pgs. 83-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.02.017 ↩
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Aedo, C., & Pando, F. (2017). A distribution and taxonomic reference dataset of Geranium in the New World. Scientific Data, 4, 170049. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.49 ↩