Nov 6, 2017
rOpenSci HQ
We have a new website! https://ropensci.org/
We’ve worked hard to create a fresh new site that’s easy to navigate, easy to read text, a more navigable packages page, and more.
Software
Releases
- A new version (
1.5
) ofpdftools
is on CRAN. See the NEWS for details. Check out the pdftools README to get started. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
0.3.0
) ofrdatacite
is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. This version adds new methods for working with the DataCite REST API, different from the functions that work with their Solr service. Check out the rdatacite README to get started. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
0.7.0
) ofritis
is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. Check out the ritis vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
0.8.0
) ofrplos
is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. This version switches to using packagesolrium
for working with PLOS’s Solr service, and swaps out some other dependencies. Check out the rplos vignettes to get started. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
2.7
) ofhunspell
is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. Check out the hunspell vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
1.5
) ofmagick
is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. Check out the magick vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
1.0.0
) ofsolrium
is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. IMPORTANT: this release includes breaking changes - thus the major version bump. This version includes a complete reworking of the way that you set connection details for a Solr instance - making it easy to manage and work with >1 Solr instance within the same R session. You can work with methods on the Solr connection object (an R6 class object) or pass the connection object into a function. Check out the solrium vignettes to get started. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
0.2-4
) ofdbhydroR
is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. Check out the dbhydroR vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
0.4.1
) ofroadoi
is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. Check out the roadoi vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
1.1.0
) ofGSODR
is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. Check out the GSODR vignettes to get started. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
0.0.8
) ofbomrang
is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. Check out the bomrang vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
0.1.10
) ofgetCRUCLdata
is on [CRAN](https://cran.rstudio.com/webgetCRUCLdata/. See the release notes for details. Check out the getCRUCLdata vignette to get started. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
0.1.4
) ofgeojson
is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. Check out the geojson vignettes to get started. Repository on GitHub - A new version (
0.1.0
) ofcomtradr
is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. Check out the comtradr vignette 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 two packages recently went through our onboarding process and have been approved!
- rperseus > Get Texts from the Perseus Digital Library
- Author: David Ranzolin
- Issue: ropensci/onboarding#145
- Reviewers:
- tidyhat > Extract and Tidy Canadian Hydrometric Data
- Author: Sam Albers
- Issue: ropensci/onboarding#152
- Reviewers:
The following packages were recently submitted for review:
- nasapower > NASA-POWER Agroclimatology Data from R
- Author: Adam Sparks
- Issue: ropensci/onboarding#155
- Reviewers: not assigned yet
On the blog
main blog
We’ve had one blog post on our main blog in the past two weeks:
Nicholas Tierney summarizes the recent http://ozunconf17.ropensci.org/ unconference in Melbourne, Australia: Building Communities Together at ozunconf, 2017
technotes
We’ve had two posts on our technotes blog in the past two weeks:
Jeroen Ooms and Thomas Lin Pedersen discuss a neat new feature in the magick
package: Image Convolution in R using Magick
Jeroen Ooms discussses Using Magick with RMarkdown and Shiny
Use cases
The following seven works use/cite rOpenSci or rOpenSci software:
- Cardoso cited rredlist in his paper red - an R package to facilitate species red list assessments according to the IUCN criteria 1
- Lee et al. cited rentrez in their paper Using the ‘rentrez’ R Package to Identify Repository Records for NCBI LinkOut 2
- Bakker et al. cited and used rplos in their paper Restriction of opportunistic use of researcher degrees of freedom in pre-registrations on the Open Science Framework 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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Footnotes
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Cardoso P (2017) red - an R package to facilitate species red list assessments according to the IUCN criteria. Biodiversity Data Journal 5: e20530. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e20530 ↩
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Lee, Y. Y., Foster, E. D., Polley, D. E., & Odell, J. Using the ‘rentrez’ R Package to Identify Repository Records for NCBI LinkOut. Chicago. Code4lib Journal. http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/12792 ↩
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Bakker, M., van Assen, M. A. L. M., Crompvoets, E. A. V., Ong, H. H., & Soderberg, C. K. Restriction of opportunistic use of researcher degrees of freedom in pre-registrations on the Open Science Framework. THE HUMAN FALLIBILITY OF SCIENTISTS, 105. https://psyarxiv.com/g8cjq/download?format=pdf#page=105 ↩