A semi-monthly summary of the rOpenSci Newsletter including software reviews, packages on CRAN, use cases, posts from staff and community, and events. April 29 to June 10, 2019
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Software Peer Review β
6 community-contributed packages passed software peer review
nbaR - R Package Client for the Netherlands Biodiversity API
git2rdata - Store and Retrieve Data.frames in a Git Repository
citesdb - A high-performance database of shipment-level CITES trade data
MtreeRing - A Shiny Application for Automatic Measurements of Tree-Ring Widths on Digital Images
rromeo - An R Client for SHERPA/RoMEO API
tidync - A Tidy Approach to ‘NetCDF’ Data Exploration and Extraction
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9 new packages on CRAN
beastier - provides a way to call BEAST2 from R
colocr - conduct co-localization analysis of fluorescence microscopy images
conditionz - control how many times conditions are thrown
jenkins - Simple Jenkins Client for R
plotdap - easily visualize data from ERDDAP servers via the rerddap package
ramlegacy - download and read RAM legacy stock assessment database
rromeo - access publisher copyright & self-archiving policies via the SHERPA/RoMEO API
suppdata - downloading supplementary data from published manuscripts
tidync - a tidy approach to NetCDF data exploration and extraction
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From the rOpenSci team
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Use Cases πππ½ββοΈππ»ββοΈ
38 published works cited or used rOpenSci software
7 use cases were posted in our discussion forum
Example: Get tweet status ID from CrossRef Event Data with our crevents package . Tuija Sonkkila wrote about working with altmetrics data in her post “Everyday altmetrics”. She shared her code and link to a Shiny app.
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