Oct 23, 2017

Discussion forum

Recently, this new conversation was started on our discussion forum https://discuss.ropensci.org:

• [Questions] Hourly Air Temperature data for US state of New Hampshire

Software

New packages

• A new package iheatmapr (v0.4.1) is on CRAN. iheatmapr makes complex, interactive heatmaps, including a modular system for iteratively building up complex heatmaps, as well as relatively standard heatmaps. Check out the docs to get started, and the software reviews of the package. Repository on GitHub
• A new package geoops (v0.1.2) is on CRAN. geoops is a set of tools for doing calculations and manipulations on GeoJSON, a geospatial data interchange format (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7946). Check out the geoops vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub

Releases

• A new version (v0.6.2) of rvertnet is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. Check out the rvertnet vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub
• A new version (v0.4.2) of lawn is on CRAN. Check out the lawn vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub
• A new version (v0.2.11) of rglobi is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. Check out the rglobi vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub
• A new version (v1.0.7) of GSODR is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. Check out the GSODR vignettes to get started. Repository on GitHub
• A new version (v0.1.6) of mregions is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. Check out the mregions vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub
• A new version (v0.3.0) of webchem is on CRAN. See the NEWS for details. Check out the webchem README 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.

The following three packages recently went through our onboarding process and have been approved!

• codemetar > Generate CodeMeta Metadata for R Packages
  • Author: Carl Boettiger
  • Issue: ropensci/onboarding#130
  • Reviewers:
    • Anna Krystalli
    • Toph Allen
• comtradr > Interface with the United Nations Comtrade API
  • Author: Chris Muir
  • Issue: ropensci/onboarding#141
  • Reviewers:
    • Alicia Schep
    • Rafael P. H.
• googleLanguageR > Title: Call Google’s ‘Natural Language’ API, ‘Cloud Translation’ API and ‘Cloud Speech’ API
  • Author: Mark Edmondson
  • Issue: ropensci/onboarding#127
  • Reviewers:
    • Julia Gustavsen
    • Neal Richardson

On the blog

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

.rprofile series

Our first post in a series we’re calling .rprofile: .rprofile: David Smith by Kelly O’Briant.

Keep an eye out for more posts in this series.

Onboarding series

In another post in our onboarding series, Mark Padgham discusses his package bikedata and the review process: Data from Public Bicycle Hire Systems

Use cases

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

• Tedesco et al. cited and used rfishbase in their paper A global database on freshwater fish species occurrence in drainage basins ¹
• Sparks et al. cited bomrang in their paper in JOSS bomrang: Fetch Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology Data in R ²
• Pellizzari et al. referenced rOpenSci, specifically the FitzJohn et al. blog post in their white paper Reproducibility: A primer on semantics and implications for research ³
• Branoff cited and used taxize in his paper Quantifying the influence of urban land use on mangrove biology and ecology: A meta-analysis ⁴
• May cited and used rfishbase and bold in her PhD thesis A new bioinformatics pipeline to reveal the correlates of molecular evolutionary rates in ray-finned fishes ⁵
• Tad Dallas et al. cited and used spocc and taxize in their paper Species are not most abundant in the centre of their geographic range or climatic niche ⁶
• Mayer et al. cited and used rgbif in their paper Naturalization of ornamental plant species in public green spaces and private gardens ⁷

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.

In the news

Evan Goldstein wrote a blog post Data Collection: getting Altmetric.com data for GRL articles referencing our R client rAltmetric for Altmetric.com for scholarly altmetrics data.

Daniel Padfield wrote a blog post Doing local BLAST searches on sanger sequence data in R that used taxize.

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