Aug 14, 2017
rOpenSci HQ
Community Calls
We’ll have our next community call on September 13th, on rOpenSci Software Review and Onboarding.
Save the date! https://github.com/ropensci/commcalls/issues/15
We hope past authors and reviewers will attend, as well as people considering volunteering to review rOpenSci packages or people considering submitting their package for review.
Discussion forum
Recently, on our discussion forum https://discuss.ropensci.org:
- nearPoints function availability in R plotly
- New package idea: Public Data depository using Google BigQuery?
rOpenSci in the News
- NumFOCUS, of which rOpenSci is a part, recently hosted a blog post by our editorial team: How rOpenSci uses Code Review to Promote Reproducible Science
- Our community manager Stefanie Butland had two blog posts on the AAAS Trellis blog in the past week
Software
New packages
- A new package
rtimicropem
(v1.3
) is on CRAN.rtimicropem
supports the input and reproducible analysis of output files from RTI MicroPEM (personal monitoring devices for air quality data). Check out the rtimicropem vignettes to get started. Repository on GitHub
Releases
- A new version (
v0.2.2
) ofropenaq
is on CRAN. See the NEWS for details. Check out the ropenaq 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 (
v0.2-3
) ofdbhydroR
is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. Check out the dbhydroR vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
v1.3.0
) ofdatapack
is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. Check out the datapack vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
v1.0
) ofmagick
is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. Check out the magick vignette to get started. Watch out for a blog post on this package on our blog later today. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
v0.1.4
) ofcrminer
is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. Check out the crminer README to get started. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
v0.0.5
) ofosmdata
is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. Check out the osmdata vignettes to get started. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
v0.2.0
) ofrdpla
is on CRAN. This version switches to using our crul package for HTTP requests and gains a function to work with DPLA bulk data. See the release notes for details. Check out the rdpla 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 packages were recently submitted to our onboarding process:
- bowerbird > Keep a Collection of Sparkly Data Resources
- Author: Ben Raymond
- Issue: ropensci/onboarding#139
- Reviewers:
- comtradr > Interface with the United Nations Comtrade API
- Author: Chris Muir
- Issue: ropensci/onboarding#141
- Reviewers: not yet assigned
We had the following two pre-submission inquiries in the past two weeks:
- MODIStsp > Keep a Collection of Sparkly Data Resources
- Author: Lorenzo Busetto
- Issue: ropensci/onboarding#143
- rperseus > Keep a Collection of Sparkly Data Resources
- Author: David Ranzolin
- Issue: ropensci/onboarding#144
The following two packages recently went through our onboarding process and have been approved!
- FedData > Automate Downloading Geospatial Data Available from Several Federated Data Sources
- Author: R. Kyle Bocinsky
- Issue: ropensci/onboarding#13
- Reviewers:
- bikedata > Download and Aggregate Data from Public Hire Bicycle Systems
- Author: Mark Padgham
- Issue: ropensci/onboarding#116
- Reviewers:
- 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:
On the blog
Stefanie Butland, our community manager, wrote a post on where the rOpenSci team will be at various events over the next 5 months: Chat with the rOpenSci team at upcoming meetings.
We have two blog posts wrapping up our series of posts from #runconf17:
- Maëlle Salmon, Andrew MacDonald, Kara Woo, Carl Boettiger, and Jeff Hollister wrote a blog post titled emldown - From machine readable EML metadata to a pretty documentation website.
- Noam Ross wrote Unconf 2017: The Roads Not Taken, a post that covers the ideas generated but not addressed in our 2017 unconference.
Use Cases
The following 5 works use/cite rOpenSci or rOpenSci software:
- Williams, has many examples using ckanr in his book The Essentials of Data Science: Knowledge Discovery Using R 1
- Bartomeus et al. used and cited taxize in their paper On the inconsistency of pollinator species traits for predicting either response to land-use change or functional contribution 2
- Swani and Tyagi cite one of our blog posts (Reproducible research is still a challenge) in their paper Dockerization (Replacement of VMs) 3
- Bosch cites and uses rgbif in his thesis Marine Species Distributions: From data to predictive models 4
- Senderov et al. mentions rOpenSci in their paper OpenBiodiv: an Implementaion of a Semantic System Running on top of the Biodiversity Knowledge Graph 5
Submit news to rOpenSci
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Footnotes
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Williams, G. J. (2017). The Essentials of Data Science: Knowledge Discovery Using R. CRC Press. Chicago https://www.crcpress.com/The-Essentials-of-Data-Science-Knowledge-Discovery-Using-R/Williams/p/book/9781498740005 ↩
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Bartomeus, I., Cariveau, D. P., Harrison, T., & Winfree, R. (2017). On the inconsistency of pollinator species traits for predicting either response to land-use change or functional contribution. Oikos. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.04507 ↩
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Swani, L., & Tyagi, P. (2017). Dockerization (Replacement of VMs). International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology. https://www.irjet.net/archives/V4/i7/IRJET-V4I7650.pdf ↩
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Bosch, S. (2017). Marine Species Distributions: From data to predictive models (Doctoral dissertation, Ghent University). http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/303185.pdf ↩
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Senderov, V., Georgiev, T., Agosti, D., Catapano, T., Sautter, G., Ó Tuama, É., … Penev, L. (2017). OpenBiodiv: an Implementaion of a Semantic System Running on top of the Biodiversity Knowledge Graph. Proceedings of TDWG, 1, e20084. https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20084 ↩