rOpenSci Tech Notes

Package updates, technical know-how, and small announcements related to rOpenSci software development.

pubchunks: extract parts of scholarly XML articles

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Distinguish yourself in CRAN person() with ORCID

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The av Package: Production Quality Video in R

OCTOBER 6, 2018

tinkr: editing Markdown documents using XML tools

OCTOBER 1, 2018

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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

rgbif: seven years of GBIF in R

AUGUST 22, 2018

Mongolite 2.0: GridFS, connection pooling, and more

AUGUST 14, 2018

phylotaR: Retrieve Orthologous Sequences from GenBank

AUGUST 8, 2018

Gifski on CRAN: the fastest GIF encoder in the universe

JULY 23, 2018

phylogram: dendrograms for evolutionary analysis

JULY 12, 2018

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

JUNE 12, 2018

vcr: record and replay HTTP requests

MAY 25, 2018

taxize: seven years of taxonomy in R

MAY 23, 2018

drake's improved high-performance computing power

MAY 18, 2018

icon: web icons for rmarkdown

MAY 15, 2018

Nomisr - Access 'Nomis' UK Labour Market Data

MAY 8, 2018

webmockr: mock HTTP requests

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Support for hOCR and Tesseract 4 in R

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

nodbi: the NoSQL Database Connector

JANUARY 25, 2018

fulltext v1: text-mining scholarly works

JANUARY 17, 2018

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

DECEMBER 5, 2017

solrium 1.0: Working with Solr from R

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Using Magick with RMarkdown and Shiny

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Image Convolution in R using Magick

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Changes to Internet Connectivity in R on Windows

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The writexl package: zero dependency xlsx writer for R

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Spelling 1.0: quick and effective spell checking in R

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

FedData - Getting assorted geospatial data into R

AUGUST 24, 2017

Tesseract and Magick: High Quality OCR in R

AUGUST 17, 2017

elastic - Elasticsearch for R

AUGUST 2, 2017

All the fake data that's fit to print

JUNE 22, 2017

Random GeoJSON and WKT with randgeo

APRIL 20, 2017

ccafs - client for CCAFS General Circulation Models data

MARCH 1, 2017

Package evolution - changing stuff in your package

JANUARY 5, 2017

Update jsonlite 1.2

JANUARY 4, 2017

finch - parse Darwin Core files

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Announcing pdftools 1.0

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Tesseract Update: Options and Languages

DECEMBER 8, 2016

fauxpas - HTTP conditions package

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

crul - an HTTP client

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Parse NOAA Integrated Surface Data Files

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Encryption and Digital Signatures in R using GPG

OCTOBER 19, 2016

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

OCTOBER 6, 2016

New package graphql: A GraphQL Query Parser

OCTOBER 5, 2016

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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

New in Magick 0.3

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016