August 15, 2019

2 Months in 2 Minutes - rOpenSci News, August 2019

By Stefanie Butland

A semi-monthly summary of the rOpenSci Newsletter including software reviews, packages on CRAN, use cases, posts from staff and community, and events. June 24 to August 5, 2019

rOpenSci HQ

rOpenSci received a $678K award from the Sloan Foundation to expand Software Peer Review.
We are hiring for a new position in statistical software testing and peer review.
Join our next Community Call on Reproducible Workflows at Scale with drake September 24th.
Videos, speakers’ slides, resources and collaborative notes from our Community Calls on Involving Multilingual Communities and Reproducible Research with R are posted.

Software Peer Review

5 community-contributed packages passed software peer review.

gitignore - Create useful .gitignore files for your project. Author: Philippe Massicotte; Reviewers: Amanda Dobbyn, Mauro Lepore; Review

grainchanger - Moving-Window and Direct Data Aggregation. Author: Laura Jane Graham; Reviewers: Max Joseph, John Baumgartner; Review

popler - Browse and query the popler database. Author: Aldo Compagnoni; Reviewers: Corinna Gries, Ben Bond-Lamberty; Review

tidypmc - Parse full text XML documents from PMC. Author: Chris Stubben; Reviewers: Julia Silge, Toph Allen; Review

UCSCXenaTools - Download and Explore Datasets from UCSC Xena Data Hubs. Author: Shixiang Wang; Reviewers: Christine Stawitz, Carl Ganz; Review

Consider submitting your package or volunteering to review.

Software

3 new packages from the community are on CRAN.

git2rdata - store and retrieve data.frames in a Git repository
tidypmc - parse full text XML documents from PubMed Central
UCSCXenaTools - download and explore datasets from UCSC Xena data hubs

On the Blog

From the rOpenSci team

From the community

Aggregating spatial data with the grainchanger package – Laura Jane Graham

Use Cases

51 published works cited or used rOpenSci software (listed in individual newsletters)
6 use cases for our packages or resources were posted in our discussion forum

Example: Dan Quintana gave a short video demonstration of using europepmc, a package maintained by Najko Jahn

Ever wanted to visualize the popularity of a research topic over time? Here's how, using the 'europepmc' #Rstats package

YouTube link: https://t.co/fI5B6PLDco
Code: https://t.co/hSnYiBrUh8
Thread 👇 pic.twitter.com/Ezsh9jUJul
— Dan Quintana (@dsquintana) July 23, 2019

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