February 20, 2020
A semi-monthly summary of the rOpenSci Newsletter including software reviews, packages on CRAN, use cases, posts from staff and community, and events. January 6 to February 17, 2020
rOpenSci HQ
- On behalf of rOpenSci, thank you to everyone who has contributed their creativity, curiosity, smarts, and time in the last year. Read our Thank You, 2019.
Software Peer Review
3 community-contributed packages passed software peer review.
osfr - R Interface to OSF. Author: Aaron Wolen; Reviewers: Heidi Seibold, Carl Boettiger; Read the Review
Rclean - A Tool for Writing Cleaner, More Transparent Code. Author: Matthew Lau; Reviewers: Will Landau, Clemens Schmid; Read the Review
taxadb - A High-Performance Local Taxonomic Database Interface. Author: Kari Norman; Reviewers: Margaret Siple, Lindsay Platt; Read the Review
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Software
2 new packages from the community and our staff are on CRAN.
- babette - Control BEAST2 from R. Author: Richèl J.C. Bilderbeek
- crevents - Client for the Crossref Events API. Author: Scott Chamberlain
On the Blog
From the rOpenSci team
- Working with audio in R using av Tech Note - Jeroen Ooms
- We cleaned our website URLs with R! Tech Note - Maëlle Salmon, Stefanie Butland, Scott Chamberlain
- HTTP testing in R: overview of tools and new features Tech Note - Scott Chamberlain
- rOpenSci Code of Conduct Annual Review - Stefanie Butland, Scott Chamberlain, Kara Woo
- 2 Months in 2 Minutes - rOpenSci News, December 2019 - Stefanie Butland
From the community
- taxadb: A High-Performance Local Taxonomic Database Interface - Kari Norman
- The Fun of Building Things and the Challenge of Learning - the rOpenSci OzUnconf 2019 - Steph Stammel
- Call BEAST2 for Bayesian evolutionary analysis from R – Richèl J.C. Bilderbeek
Photo by Steph Stammel
Use Cases
- 49 published works cited or used rOpenSci software (listed in individual newsletters)
- 5 use cases for our packages or resources were posted in our discussion forum Look for lawn, osmdata, pdftools, refsplitr, rnoaa, tabulizer.
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