Oct 9, 2017

Discussion forum

Recently, these new conversations were started on our discussion forum https://discuss.ropensci.org:

• [Questions] Mirroring a website for data scraping
• [Questions] CSV editor that won’t do anything to the data?
• [Packages] Track fast-evolving custom R scripts via freezr

Software

New packages

• A new package googleLanguageR (v0.1.0) is on CRAN. googleLanguageR is an R client for many Google Cloud machine learning APIs for text and speech tasks. Check out the googleLanguageR vignettes to get started, and the software reviews of the package. Repository on GitHub
• A new package bomrang (v0.1.0) is on CRAN. bomrang is an R client for Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) data. Check out the bomrang vignettes to get started, and the software reviews of the package. Repository on GitHub

Releases

• A new version (v1.0.8) of lingtypology is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. Check out the lingtypology vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub
• A new version (v3.1-5) of clifro is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. Check out the clifro vignettes to get started. Repository on GitHub
• A new version (v1.4) of magick is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. Check out the vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub
• A new version (v0.4.0) of crul is on CRAN. This version now supports file uploads for appropriate http methods, fixes handle reuse, now drops unsupported curl options, supports easier cookies usage. See the release notes for details. Check out the vignettes to get started. Repository on GitHub
• A new version (v0.9.3) of rzmq is on CRAN. See the NEWS for details. Check out the rzmq README to get started. Repository on GitHub
• A new version (v0.4) of roadoi is on CRAN. This version adds support for oaDOI API version 2. See the release notes for details. Check out the vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub
• A new version (v1.0.0) of jqr is on CRAN. This is a breaking change release, so we’ve bumped to v1 - this version unbundles jq from within the pkg and instead links to jq; another noteable change in this version is that multiple JSON inputs are now supported. See the release notes for details. Check out the vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub
• A new version (v0.6.0) of ritis is on CRAN. This version changes to using crul as HTTP client. See the release notes for details. Check out the vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub
• A new version (v0.9.0) of taxize is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. Check out the vignettes to get started. Repository on GitHub

Software Review

We accept community contributed packages via our onboarding system - an open software review system, sorta like scholarly paper review, but way better. We’ll highlight newly onboarded packages here. 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 fill out this short form, and we’ll ping you when there’s a submission that fits in your area of expertise.

On the blog

We’ve had four blog posts on our main blog in the past two weeks:

• rrricanes to Access Tropical Cyclone Data by Tim Trice

• googleLanguageR - Analysing language through the Google Cloud Machine Learning APIs by Mark Edmondson

• Help us build capacity of open software users and developers with Hacktoberfest by our community manager Stefanie Butland. In this post Stefanie announces our involvement in Hacktoberfest - get involved!

• Governance, Engagement, and Resistance in the Open Science Movement: A Comparative Study by our post-doc Dan Sholler. In the post, Dan describes his research plan.

We’ve had one blog post on our developer blog in the past two weeks:

• Changes to Internet Connectivity in R on Windows by our software engineer Jeroen Ooms

Use cases

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

• Mounce et al. cited rgbif in their paper Ex situ conservation of plant diversity in the world’s botanic gardens ¹
• Chamberlain & Boettiger discuss clients for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility in three languages, including for R in their paper R Python, and Ruby clients for GBIF species occurrence data ²
• Li et al. cited rplos in their paper How is R cited in research outputs? Structure, impacts, and citation standard ³

If you’ve used rOpenSci software in a blog post or a paper, tell us on the discussion forum and we’ll share it with our community here.

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