Jun 5, 2017

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rOpenSci HQ

Our 4th annual rOpenSci Unconference (http://unconf17.ropensci.org/) happened a few weeks ago (25-26 May) in Los Angeles, CA.

• Checkout what happened on Twitter using #runconf17 - and Karthik’s Storify
• Our community manager got a blog post up the other day about the event: Bringing Together People and Projects at Unconf17
• We’ll be rolling out a series of blog posts soon covering some of the work accomplished at the event
• There’s been a numbrer of blog posts already by unconf attendees: Jasmine Dumas, Bob Rudis, David Smith, Karl Broman, and Lucy McGowan.

Our community manager Stefanie Butland is at meeting this week for AAAS Community Engagement Fellows Program.

Software

New packages

• A new package cld2 (v1.0) is on CRAN. cld2 is an R Wrapper for Google’s Compact Language Detector 2. Check out the cld2 README to get started. Repository on GitHub

Releases

• A new version (v1.3) of graphql is on CRAN. See release notes for details. Repository on GitHub
• A new version (v0.1.8) of stplanr is on CRAN. See release notes for details. Check out the vignettes to get started. Repository on GitHub
• A new version (v1.1.0) of rentrez is on CRAN. This version makes a change to use POST requests over GET when sending >200 IDS to NCBI - other changes as well. See release notes for details. Check out the vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub
• A new version (v2.0.2.1) of assertr is on CRAN. Check out the vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub
• A new version (v4.7.0) of plotly is on CRAN. This version adds support for fixed coordinates, and geom_sf/coord_sf - and other changes. See the NEWS for details. Check out the plotly book to get started. Repository on GitHub
• A new version (v1.1) of eechidna is on CRAN. Repository on GitHub
• A new version (v0.3.6) of crul is on CRAN. This version adds integration for the R package webmockr, a new package which allows you to mock HTTP requests. webmockr only supports crul for now, but will support other HTTP libs soon. This version also adds a simple authentication helper (auth), and some minor improvements. See release notes for details. Check out the vignettes to get started. 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 five packages were recently submitted to our onboarding process:

• bikedata > Download and Aggregate Data from Public Hire Bicycle Systems
  • Author: Mark Padgham
  • Issue: ropensci/onboarding#116
  • Reviewers:
    • Elaine McVey
    • chucheria
• rrricanes > Web scraper for real-time and archived advisory products for Atlantic and east Pacific hurricanes and tropical storms
  • Author: Tim Trice
  • Issue: ropensci/onboarding#118
  • Reviewers: not yet assigned
• RefManageR > Straightforward ‘BibTeX’ and ‘BibLaTeX’ Bibliography Management
  • Author: Mathew McLean
  • Issue: ropensci/onboarding#119
  • Reviewers: not yet assigned
• bittrex > Client for the Bitrex Exchange
  • Author: Michael Kane
  • Issue: ropensci/onboarding#120
  • Reviewers: not yet assigned
• bomrang > Fetch Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology Data
  • Author: Adam Sparks
  • Issue: ropensci/onboarding#121
  • Reviewers: not yet assigned

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

• osmdata > Download OpenStreetMap Data with the Overpass API
  • Author: Mark Padgham
  • Issue: ropensci/onboarding#103
  • Reviewers:
    • Edzer Pebesma

On the blog

Our community manager got a blog post up the other day about the event: Bringing Together People and Projects at Unconf17

Onboarding series

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

• 8th: George Moroz on his package lingtypology - Easy linguistic mapping with lingtypology.
• 7th: Thomas Leeper on his package tabulizer - Release ‘open’ data from their PDF prisons using tabulizer.
• 6th: 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 ifelses to the plater package.

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

Use Cases

The following three papers use/cite rOpenSci or rOpenSci software:

• Ordano et al. used and cited [taxize][taxize] in their paper The role of trait combination in the conspicuousness of fruit display among bird-dispersed plants ¹
• Lehmann et al. cited rOpenSci and [ecoengine][ecoengine] in their paper Lifting the Information Barriers to Address Sustainability Challenges with Data from Physical Geography and Earth Observation ²
• Mounce et al. cited rOpenSci in their paper A machine-compiled microbial supertree from figure-mining thousands of papers ³

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
• rOpenSci on Twitter: we’re @ropensci
• 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

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