Tech Notes

RSS JSON

August 25, 2020

Scientific Name Parsing: rgnparser and namext

Scott Chamberlain

July 16, 2020

CRAN Checks API News: Documentation, Notifications, and More

Scott Chamberlain, Maëlle Salmon

July 7, 2020

A better way to manage your Github personal access tokens

Jeroen Ooms

May 28, 2020

Superior svg graphics rendering in R, and why it matters

Jeroen Ooms

May 7, 2020

A Roundup of R Tools for Handling BibTeX

Maëlle Salmon

April 30, 2020

Highlights of Hugo Code Highlighting

Maëlle Salmon

April 23, 2020

Miscellaneous Wisdom about R Markdown & Hugo Gained from Work on our Website

Maëlle Salmon

April 16, 2020

Extracting eBird Data from a Polygon

Matthew Strimas-Mackey

March 19, 2020

parzer: Parse Messy Geographic Coordinates

Scott Chamberlain

March 13, 2020

Supercharge your GitHub Actions Experience with tic

Patrick Schratz

February 25, 2020

opentripplanner: Fast and Easy Multimodal Trip Planning in R with OpenTripPlanner

Malcolm Morgan

February 3, 2020

Working with audio in R using av

Jeroen Ooms

December 19, 2019

We cleaned our website URLs with R!

Maëlle Salmon, Scott Chamberlain, Stefanie Butland

December 11, 2019

HTTP testing in R: overview of tools and new features

Scott Chamberlain

December 8, 2019

How to precompute package vignettes or pkgdown articles

Jeroen Ooms

November 14, 2019

workloopR: Analysis of work loops and other data from muscle physiology experiments in R

Vikram B. Baliga

October 9, 2019

cran checks API: an update

Scott Chamberlain

September 27, 2019

Updates to the rOpenSci image suite: magick, tesseract, and av

Jeroen Ooms

September 17, 2019

citecorp: working with open citations

Scott Chamberlain

September 6, 2019

UCSCXenaTools: Retrieve Gene Expression and Clinical Information from UCSC Xena for Survival Analysis

Shixiang Wang

June 7, 2019

Introducing the new rOpenSci docs server

Jeroen Ooms

May 21, 2019

rodev: helpers for rOpenSci package authors

Maëlle Salmon

April 24, 2019

Join, split, and compress PDF files with pdftools

Jeroen Ooms

April 24, 2019

conditionz: control how many times conditions are thrown

Scott Chamberlain

March 18, 2019

drake transformed

Will Landau

February 27, 2019

handlr: convert among citation formats

Scott Chamberlain

February 22, 2019

Bugfix release for the ssh package

Jeroen Ooms

February 11, 2019

A Major Upgrade of the V8 package

Jeroen Ooms

January 9, 2019

An even better rOpenSci website with Hugo

Maëlle Salmon

December 20, 2018

Spelling 2.0: Improved Markdown and RStudio Support

Jeroen Ooms

December 14, 2018

Pdftools 2.0: powerful pdf text extraction tools

Jeroen Ooms

December 4, 2018

rnoaa: new data sources and NCDC units

Scott Chamberlain

December 3, 2018

restez: Query GenBank locally

Dom Bennett

November 6, 2018

Tesseract 4 is here! State of the art OCR in R!

Jeroen Ooms

October 16, 2018

pubchunks: extract parts of scholarly XML articles

Scott Chamberlain

October 8, 2018

Distinguish yourself in CRAN person() with ORCID

Maëlle Salmon

October 6, 2018

The av Package: Production Quality Video in R

Jeroen Ooms

October 1, 2018

tinkr: editing Markdown documents using XML tools

Maëlle Salmon

September 10, 2018

All the Badges One Can Earn: Parsing Badges of CRAN Packages READMEs

Maëlle Salmon

September 5, 2018

In praise of Commonmark: wrangle (R)Markdown files without regex

Maëlle Salmon

August 22, 2018

rgbif: seven years of GBIF in R

Scott Chamberlain

August 14, 2018

Mongolite 2.0: GridFS, connection pooling, and more

Jeroen Ooms

August 8, 2018

phylotaR: Retrieve Orthologous Sequences from GenBank

Dom Bennett

July 23, 2018

Gifski on CRAN: the fastest GIF encoder in the universe

Jeroen Ooms

July 12, 2018

phylogram: dendrograms for evolutionary analysis

Shaun Wilkinson

June 12, 2018

The ssh Package: Secure Shell (SSH) Client for R

Jeroen Ooms

May 25, 2018

vcr: record and replay HTTP requests

Scott Chamberlain

May 23, 2018

taxize: seven years of taxonomy in R

Scott Chamberlain

May 18, 2018

drake's improved high-performance computing power

Will Landau

May 15, 2018

icon: web icons for rmarkdown

Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

May 8, 2018

Nomisr - Access Nomis UK Labour Market Data

Evan Odell

February 20, 2018

webmockr: mock HTTP requests

Scott Chamberlain

February 14, 2018

Support for hOCR and Tesseract 4 in R

Jeroen Ooms

January 25, 2018

nodbi: the NoSQL Database Connector

Scott Chamberlain

January 17, 2018

fulltext v1: text-mining scholarly works

Scott Chamberlain

December 5, 2017

Magick 1.6: clipping, geometries, fonts, fuzz, and a bit of history

Jeroen Ooms

November 8, 2017

solrium 1.0: Working with Solr from R

Scott Chamberlain

November 7, 2017

Using Magick with RMarkdown and Shiny

Jeroen Ooms

November 2, 2017

Image Convolution in R using Magick

Jeroen Ooms, Thomas Lin Pedersen

October 10, 2017

Changes to Internet Connectivity in R on Windows

Jeroen Ooms

September 8, 2017

The writexl package: zero dependency xlsx writer for R

Jeroen Ooms

September 7, 2017

Spelling 1.0: quick and effective spell checking in R

Jeroen Ooms

August 24, 2017

FedData - Getting assorted geospatial data into R

Kyle Bocinsky

August 17, 2017

Tesseract and Magick: High Quality OCR in R

Jeroen Ooms

August 2, 2017

elastic - Elasticsearch for R

Scott Chamberlain

June 22, 2017

All the fake data that's fit to print

Scott Chamberlain

April 20, 2017

Random GeoJSON and WKT with randgeo

Scott Chamberlain, Noam Ross

March 1, 2017

ccafs - client for CCAFS General Circulation Models data

Scott Chamberlain

January 5, 2017

Package evolution - changing stuff in your package

Scott Chamberlain

January 4, 2017

Update jsonlite 1.2

Jeroen Ooms

December 23, 2016

finch - parse Darwin Core files

Scott Chamberlain

December 9, 2016

Announcing pdftools 1.0

Jeroen Ooms

December 8, 2016

Tesseract Update: Options and Languages

Jeroen Ooms

November 18, 2016

fauxpas - HTTP conditions package

Scott Chamberlain

November 9, 2016

crul - an HTTP client

Scott Chamberlain

November 3, 2016

Parse NOAA Integrated Surface Data Files

Scott Chamberlain

October 19, 2016

Encryption and Digital Signatures in R using GPG

Jeroen Ooms

October 6, 2016

Get air quality data for the United Kingdom using the rdefra package

Claudia Vitolo

October 5, 2016

New package graphql: A GraphQL Query Parser

Jeroen Ooms

September 12, 2016

Hunspell 2.0: High-Performance Stemmer, Tokenizer, and Spell Checker for R

Jeroen Ooms

September 8, 2016

New in Magick 0.3

Jeroen Ooms