Thursday, August 15, 2019 From rOpenSci (https://ropensci.org/blog/2019/08/15/news-aug2019/). Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under the CC-BY license.
A semi-monthly summary of the rOpenSci Newsletter including software reviews, packages on CRAN, use cases, posts from staff and community, and events. June 24 to August 5, 2019
🔗 rOpenSci HQ
- rOpenSci received a $678K award from the Sloan Foundation to expand Software Peer Review.
- We are hiring for a new position in statistical software testing and peer review.
- Join our next Community Call on Reproducible Workflows at Scale with drake September 24th.
- Videos, speakers’ slides, resources and collaborative notes from our Community Calls on Involving Multilingual Communities and Reproducible Research with R are posted.
🔗 Software Peer Review
5 community-contributed packages passed software peer review.
gitignore - Create useful .gitignore files for your project. Author: Philippe Massicotte; Reviewers: Amanda Dobbyn, Mauro Lepore; Review
grainchanger - Moving-Window and Direct Data Aggregation. Author: Laura Jane Graham; Reviewers: Max Joseph, John Baumgartner; Review
popler - Browse and query the popler database. Author: Aldo Compagnoni; Reviewers: Corinna Gries, Ben Bond-Lamberty; Review
tidypmc - Parse full text XML documents from PMC. Author: Chris Stubben; Reviewers: Julia Silge, Toph Allen; Review
UCSCXenaTools - Download and Explore Datasets from UCSC Xena Data Hubs. Author: Shixiang Wang; Reviewers: Christine Stawitz, Carl Ganz; Review
Consider submitting your package or volunteering to review.
🔗 Software
3 new packages from the community are on CRAN.
- git2rdata - store and retrieve data.frames in a Git repository
- tidypmc - parse full text XML documents from PubMed Central
- UCSCXenaTools - download and explore datasets from UCSC Xena data hubs
🔗 On the Blog
🔗 From the rOpenSci team
- Taking over maintenance of a software package
- rOpenSci Contributors at useR!2019
- 2 Months in 2 Minutes - rOpenSci News, June 2019
🔗 From the community
🔗 Use Cases
- 51 published works cited or used rOpenSci software (listed in individual newsletters)
- 6 use cases for our packages or resources were posted in our discussion forum
Example: Dan Quintana gave a short video demonstration of using europepmc, a package maintained by Najko Jahn
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