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- rOpenSci is a runner-up in the Mendeley Binary Battle!
- We just got word that rOpenSci was a runner-up in the first Binary Battle! Thank you for all the support so far! We entered two of our packages for integrating with PLoS Journals (rplos) and Mendeley (RMendeley) in the Mendeley-PLoS Binary Battle. Get them at GitHub (rplos; RMendeley). These two packages allow users to search and retrieve [...] Read more – ‘rOpenSci is a runner-up in the Mendeley Binary Battle!’.
- Use case: combining taxize and rgbif
- This is just the sort of thing for which rOpenSci is being built. A colleague of mine recently saw our packages in development and thought, “Hey, that could totally make my life easier.” What was made easier you ask? This was his situation: He had a list of ca. 1200 species of birds [...] Read more – ‘Use case: combining taxize and rgbif’.
- Two rOpenSci R packages on CRAN: treebase and rfishbase
- Carl Boettiger, a graduate student at UC Davis, and one of the rOpenSci developers, just put two packages on CRAN. One is treebase, which handshakes with the Treebase API. The other is rfishbase, which connects with Fishbase by scraping XML content. See code development on GitHub for treebase here, and for rfishbase here. Carl has some tutorials on treebase and rfishbase at his website here, [...] Read more – ‘Two rOpenSci R packages on CRAN: treebase and rfishbase’.