October 17, 2019
A semi-monthly summary of the rOpenSci Newsletter including software reviews, packages on CRAN, use cases, posts from staff and community, and events. August 19 to October 14, 2019
rOpenSci HQ
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Videos, speaker’s slides, resources and collaborative notes from our Community Call on Reproducible Workflows at Scale with drake are posted.
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Help wanted! We encourage rOpenSci package authors to help us help you get more contributors to your package. If you label an issue “help wanted” (no hyphen or emojis), those issues can be found in a search of the rOpenSci organization.
Software Peer Review
3 community-contributed packages passed software peer review.
c14bazAAR - Download and Prepare C14 Dates from Different Source Databases. Author: Clemens Schmid; Reviewers: Ben Marwick, Enrico Crema; Read the Review
rmangal - An interface to the Mangal database https://mangal.io/#/. Author: Steve Vissault; Reviewers: Thomas Pedersen, Anna Willoughby; Read the Review
rnassqs - Access the NASS Quick Stats API. Author: Nicholas Potter; Reviewers: Adam Sparks, Neal Richardson; Read the Review
Consider submitting your package or volunteering to review.
Software
5 new packages from the community are on CRAN.
- cde - download data from the Catchment Data Explorer
- chlorpromazineR - convert antipsychotic doses to chlorpromazine equivalents
- citecorp - client for the Open Citations Corpus
- PostcodesioR - API wrapper for Postcodes.io
- rmangal - interface to the Mangal database of ecological networks
On the Blog
From the rOpenSci team
- citecorp: working with open citations Tech Note - Scott Chamberlain
- Updates to the rOpenSci image suite: magick, tesseract, and av Tech Note - Jeroen Ooms
- rOpenSci Dev Guide 0.3.0: Updates - rOpenSci Software Peer Review Editors
- cran checks API: an update Tech Note - Scott Chamberlain
- 2 Months in 2 Minutes - rOpenSci News, August 2019 - Stefanie Butland
From the community
- Introducing Open Forensic Science in R – Sam Tyner
- UCSCXenaTools: Retrieve Gene Expression and Clinical Information from UCSC Xena for Survival Analysis – Shixiang Wang
- Using rOpenSci Software Peer Review Guidelines for Teaching – Tiffany Timbers
From Introducing Open Forensic Science in R. Were these bullets fired by the same gun? Top: Images of partial bullet scans. Bottom left: representative cross-sections from two bullets with 6 lands each. Bottom right: resulting smoothed bullet signatures and raw signatures.
Use Cases
- 84 published works cited or used rOpenSci software (listed in individual newsletters)
- 7 use cases for our packages or resources were posted in our discussion forum Look for pdftools, tabulizer, writexl, rorcid, rnaturalearth, rdflib, drake, and tic.
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Call For Contributors
Part of rOpenSci’s mission is to make sustainable software. When a package needs a new maintainer, we work to find a new one. The current maintainer of mregions, Scott Chamberlain, is looking for a new maintainer. Contact Scott if you’re interested.
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