Jul 31, 2017
Discussion forum
Recently, on our discussion forum https://discuss.ropensci.org:
Software
Releases
- A new version (
v0.5.1
) ofbiomartr
is on CRAN. See the NEWS for details. Check out the biomartr vignettes to get started. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
v4.7.1
) ofplotly
is on CRAN. See the NEWS for details. Check out the plotly book to get started. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
v0.5
) ofmagick
is on CRAN. See the NEWS for details. Check out the magick vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
v1.0.4
) ofGSODR
is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. Check out the GSODR vignettes to get started. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
v0.19.0
) ofgit2r
is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. Check out the git2r README to get started. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
v1.0.0
) ofrefimpact
is on CRAN. See the NEWS for details. Check out the refimpact vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
v0.3.8
) ofgeojsonio
is on CRAN. This version includes bug fixes forgeojson_json
andgeojson_write
related tosf
package; fix for GDAL > 2.2.0; changes to...
param ingeojson_json
/geojson_write
. See the release notes for details. Check out the geojsonio vignettes to get started. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
v0.5.0
) ofbold
is on CRAN. This version switches to using new BOLD v4 API; now using crul for HTTP requests; many bug fixes. See the release notes for details. Check out the bold vignette 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 package was recently submitted to our onboarding process:
- auk > eBird Data Extraction with AWK
- Author: Matthew Strimas-Mackey
- Issue: ropensci/onboarding#136
- Reviewers: not assigned yet
The following two packages recently went through our onboarding process and have been approved:
- visdat > Preliminary Visualisation of Data
- Author: Nicholas Tierney
- Issue: ropensci/onboarding#87
- Reviewers:
- RefManageR > Straightforward ‘BibTeX’ and ‘BibLaTeX’ Bibliography Management
- Author: Mathew McLean
- Issue: ropensci/onboarding#119
- Reviewers:
On the blog
- Scott Chamberlain wrote a blog post summarizing the rOpenSci taxonomy suite titled The rOpenSci Taxonomy Suite.
- Rich FitzJohn, Oliver Keyes, Stephanie Locke, Jeroen Ooms, Bob Rudis wrote a really nice post about their #runconf17 project notary - Signing & Verification of R Packages.
- Stefanie Butland, our community manager, wrote a great blob post about The Value of #Welcome.
Use Cases
The following 9 papers/blog posts use/cite rOpenSci or rOpenSci software:
- Stachelek et al. used magick and tesseract in their paper The National Eutrophication Survey: lake characteristics and historical nutrient concentrations 1
- Funk & Mullen used textreuse in their paper The Spine of American Law: Digital Text Analysis and US Legal Practice 2
- Duffy et al. used rgbif in their paper Barriers to globally invasive species are weakening across the Antarctic 3
- Dulvy & Kindsvater use rfishbase in their book chapter The Future Species of Anthropocene Seas in the book Conservation for the Anthropocene Ocean 4
- Cicero et al. used rvertnet in their book chapter Biodiversity Informatics and Data Quality on a Global Scale in the book The Extended Specimen: Emerging Frontiers in Collections-Based Ornithological Research 5
- Hutchinson et al. used taxize in their paper Cophylogenetic signal is detectable in pollination interactions across ecological scales 6
- Coombs & Peters mentioned rOpenSci in their paper The Leiden Manifesto Under Review: What Libraries Can Learn From It 7
- Shirin Glander wrote a great blog post using our tesseract package on How to do Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of non-English documents in R using Tesseract 8
- Lucy D’Agostino McGowan and our own Maëlle Salmon wrote a great blog post on how they made Faces of #rstats Twitter titled The making of “We R-Ladies” 9
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Footnotes
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Stachelek, J., Ford, C., Kincaid, D., King, K., Miller, H., & Nagelkirk, R. (2017). The National Eutrophication Survey: lake characteristics and historical nutrient concentrations. Earth System Science Data Discussions, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2017-52 ↩
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Funk, K. R., & Mullen, L. A. (2017). The Spine of American Law: Digital Text Analysis and US Legal Practice. https://files.osf.io/v1/resources/xup2h/providers/osfstorage/596688e26c613b00446ff69e?action=download&version=3&direct ↩
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Duffy, G. A., Coetzee, B. W. T., Latombe, G., Akerman, A. H., McGeoch, M. A., & Chown, S. L. (2017). Barriers to globally invasive species are weakening across the Antarctic. Diversity and Distributions. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12593 ↩
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Dulvy, N. K., & Kindsvater, H. K. (2017). The Future Species of Anthropocene Seas. Conservation for the Anthropocene Ocean, 39–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-805375-1.00003-9 ↩
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Cicero, C., Spencer, C. L., Bloom, D. A., Guralnick, R. P., Koo, M. S., Otegui, J., … & Wieczorek, J. R. (2017). Biodiversity Informatics and Data Quality on a Global Scale. The Extended Specimen: Emerging Frontiers in Collections-Based Ornithological Research. cicero ↩
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Hutchinson, M. C., Cagua, E. F., & Stouffer, D. B. (2017). Cophylogenetic signal is detectable in pollination interactions across ecological scales. Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1955 ↩
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Coombs, S. K., & Peters, I. (2017). The Leiden Manifesto Under Review: What Libraries Can Learn From It. Digital Library Perspectives. http://libereurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/DLP-Paper.pdf ↩
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Glander, S. 2017. How to do Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of non-English documents in R using Tesseract. https://shiring.github.io/text_analysis/2017/07/17/ocr_tesseract ↩
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McGowan, L.D. & Salmon, M. 2017. The making of “We R-Ladies”. http://livefreeordichotomize.com/2017/07/18/the-making-of-we-r-ladies ↩