2 Months in 2 Minutes – rOpenSci News, December 2019

rOpenSci HQ

• rOpenSci Announces a New $896k Award From The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to Improve the Scientific Package Ecosystem for R.

• We’re excited to announce a new member of our team! Introducing Mark Padgham, rOpenSci’s new Software Research Scientist

• NumFOCUS recognizes Melina Vidoni and Will Landau for their contributions to rOpenSci.

• Videos, speaker’s slides, resources and collaborative notes from our Community Call on Testing in R are posted.

• What would you like to hear about in an rOpenSci Community Call? We are soliciting your emoji-votes and new ideas for Community Call topics and speakers.

Software Peer Review

5 community-contributed packages passed software peer review.

baRcodeR – Label Creation for Tracking and Collecting Data from Biological Samples. Author: Yihan Wu; Reviewers: Rayna Harris, Lluís Revilla; Read the Review

eia – API Wrapper for ‘US Energy Information Administration’ Open Data. Author: Matthew Leonawicz; Reviewers: David Ranzolin, Philipp Ottolinger; Read the Review

mapscanner – R package to print maps, draw on them, and scan them back in. Author: Mark Padgham; Reviewers: Kelly Hondula, Nicholas Potter; Read the Review

photosearcher – Searches Flickr for photographs and metadata. Author: Nathan Fox; Reviewers: Monica Gerber, Zhian Kamvar; Read the Review

workloopR – Analysis of Work Loops and Other Data from Muscle Physiology Experiments. Author: Vikram B. Baliga; Reviewers: Julia Romanowska, Eric Brown; Read the Review

Consider submitting your package or volunteering to review.

Software

3 new packages from the community are on CRAN.

• baRcodeR – Label Creation for Tracking and Collecting Data from Biological Samples
• lightr – Import spectral data and related metadata in R
• mauricer – Install BEAST2 packages from R

On the Blog

From the rOpenSci team

• How to precompute package vignettes or pkgdown articles Tech Note – Jeroen Ooms
• 2 Months in 2 Minutes – rOpenSci News, October 2019 – Stefanie Butland

From the community

• rmangal: making ecological networks easily accessible – Kevin Cazelles, Steve Vissault
• (Re)introducing skimr v2 – A year in the life of an open source R project – Michael Quinn, Elin Waring
• tidync: scientific array data from NetCDF in R – Michael Sumner
• workloopR: Analysis of work loops and other data from muscle physiology experiments in R Tech Note – Vikram B. Baliga
• rnassqs: accessing USDA agricultural data via API – Nicholas Potter

Use Cases

• 51 published works cited or used rOpenSci software (listed in individual newsletters)
• 9 use cases for our packages or resources were posted in our discussion forum Look for crminer, magick, rcrossref, rerddap, rorcid, tabulizer, tidyhydat, tidync, weathercan.

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