Nov 6, 2017

rOpenSci HQ

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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) of pdftools 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) of rdatacite 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) of ritis 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) of rplos is on CRAN. See the release notes for details. This version switches to using package solrium 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) of hunspell 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) of magick 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) of solrium 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) of dbhydroR 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) of roadoi 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) 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 (0.0.8) of bomrang 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) of getCRUCLdata 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) of geojson 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) of comtradr 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:
    • Ildikó Czeller
    • François Michonneau
• tidyhat > Extract and Tidy Canadian Hydrometric Data
  • Author: Sam Albers
  • Issue: ropensci/onboarding#152
  • Reviewers:
    • Laura DeCicco
    • Luke Winslow

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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