rOpenSci | Use Cases

Use Cases

If you’re looking for examples of how our R packages or resources have been used, search no more! We collect use cases in a public forum and we created a template there to help you share yours. Below is a random subset as well as a searchable archive of all use cases. Browse them, and report your own use case(s). For more illustrations of our packages’ use, also see the citations page.

TitleResourceDateReporterLanguage
Automated generation of a taxonomic classification documenttaxlist, targets2025-06-13Joel NittaEnglish
Enseñando datos espaciales vectoriales en Rrnaturalearth2025-04-28Yanina Bellini SaibeneSpanish
Multilingual support for Teaching Tech Together Bookbabelquarto2025-04-25Yanina Bellini SaibeneEnglish Spanish
Translating course to Spanish and Frenchbabelquarto2025-03-25Yann SayEnglish
Combining with Population Density Rasters with OSM data in R with {sf}, {osmextract} and {ggplot2}osmextract2025-03-01Aditya DahiyaEnglish
Visualizing Highways, Toll Booths with {ggplot2} in R with {osmextract}osmextract2025-03-01Aditya DahiyaEnglish
METAR analysis for flight conditionsriem2025-02-20Maëlle SalmonEnglish
Translating Carpentries workbench lessons with babeldownbabeldown2024-07-16Hugo GrusonEnglish
OAI interface request, response, and data download with Roai2024-06-14Jörg LehmannEnglish
Using {weatherOz} to Plot Perth's May High TemperaturesweatherOz2024-06-09Adam SparksEnglish
Unlock R functions with QR codesopencv2023-11-02Matt DrayEnglish
Targets and other tools to make college comparison websiteThe user manual for the targets and tarchetypes packages2023-11-01Brian O’MearaEnglish
A toolkit workflow for climate-sensitive infectious disease modellingtargets, tarchetypes2023-10-05Raphael SaldanhaEnglish
Using targets for an omics analysis and report / manuscripttargets2023-06-26Robert M FlightEnglish
Delete all your tweets using rtweetrtweet2022-11-22Julia SilgeEnglish
Adding missing EXIF data to wildlife trail camera imagesmagick2022-11-10Neil SaundersEnglish
Backing up GitHub organisation with gitcellargitcellar, Safeguards and Backups for GitHub Organizations2022-10-12Hugo GrusonEnglish
Using a targets pipeline to query data from the Water Quality Portaltargets, dataRetrieval2022-10-03JulieEnglish
Using handlr to convert bibtex citation to cffhandlr2022-09-16Athanasia Monika MowinckelEnglish
Using taxize and highcharter in R to extract and visualize taxonomic datataxize2022-09-13StepminerEnglish
Map of linguae francae of Dagestan, Russialingtypology2022-06-02George MorozEnglish
Extração de dados sobre heróis negros e negras da Marvel e DCtabulizer [pt-br]2022-05-30Fernando Almeida BarbalhoPortuguese
Analyze your Twitter timeline with rtweet and lubridatertweet2022-05-14Albert RappEnglish
Estimating leaf temperatures worldwidenasapower2022-04-21Paul MelloyEnglish
Using vcr for HTTP testing of a package for Kobotoolboxvcr, http testing book2022-03-24FrieEnglish
Use rtweet to manage lists and who you followrtweet2022-02-22Steph LockeEnglish
Calculating US Residential Segregation Indices in A Reproducible Pipelinetargets2022-02-11Boyi GuoEnglish
Evaluating semi-parametric nowcasts of COVID-19 hospital admissions in Germanytargets, piggyback2021-11-30Sam AbbottEnglish
Predizendo volume de eucalipto com tidymodels, XGBoost e targetstargets2021-10-13Theilon MacêdoPortuguese
Creating historical Congressional maps with USABoundariesUSAboundaries2021-10-10Andrew HeissEnglish
Using jsonvalidate to validate the packages.json file from your personal universejsonvalidate, R-universe2021-10-05Hugo GrusonEnglish
Using stplanr to find shortest road network distance to a TB treatment clinic from a TB patients' household.stplanr2021-09-20McEwen KhundiEnglish
Slicing an image with magick for artistic effectmagick2021-09-07Georgios KaramanisEnglish
Bayesian Regression Analysis with Rstanarm (with GSODR for supporting data)GSODR2021-09-02Adam SparksEnglish
Informal package review using rOpenSci review templateReview template from the package development guide2021-08-04Hugo GrusonEnglish
Answering 'what colour is London?' with magick and rtweetrtweet, magick2021-07-27Matt DrayEnglish
Investigating the drought in the Canadian prairiesweathercan2021-07-26Alex KoiterEnglish
targets pipeline with RMarkdown to download and visualize USGS datatargets2021-07-26Lindsay PlattEnglish
pdftools + map to download & read multiple pdfspdftools2021-07-15Silvia GutiérrezEnglish
pdftools + tesseract para extraer texto en españolpdftools, tesseract2021-07-15Silvia GutiérrezEnglish
Historical dataviz recreations with a sprinkle of magickmagick2021-07-04Matt DrayEnglish
Environment Canada air temperature using weathercanweathercan2021-07-02Alexandre BevingtonEnglish
Mapping Asian elephant observations with rgbifrgbif2021-06-23Tuija SonkkilaEnglish
Using rotl to create phylogenetic treesrotl2021-06-12DeniseEnglish
Using tabulizer to extract tabular data from daily COVID-19 reportstabulizer2021-06-07Steffi LaZerteEnglish
Most tweeted words each month: a year snapshotrtweet2021-05-17Soraya CampbellEnglish
Easily analyzing tweets using rtweetrtweet2021-05-12Amit AroraEnglish
Scraping Google Play Reviews with RSeleniumRSelenium2021-05-11jlawEnglish
Using RSelenium to scrape a paginated HTML tableRSelenium2021-04-12Guillaume PressiatEnglish
Teaching an introduction to workflow management using drakedrake2021-03-25MattEnglish
Using terrainr to retrieve spatial data and make 3D landscape visualizationsterrainr2021-03-01Michael MahoneyEnglish
Mapping collaborations in Neotropical Taxonomy with refsplitrrefsplitr2021-02-06Emilio M BrunaEnglish
Use gert to scan all git repos in a directorygert2021-02-01Danielle NavarroEnglish
pdftools for extracting complex (e.g. text-wrapped/multiline) tables from pdfspdftools2021-01-26LizlawEnglish
Shiny apps to search #rstudioglobal or #rstats tweets with rtweetrtweet2021-01-25Sharon MachlisEnglish
Using dittodb to test database queriesdittodb2021-01-25Gordon ShotwellEnglish
Getting and plotting weather and climate dataweathercan2021-01-21Alex KoiterEnglish
Using ghql to analyze all my 2020 GitHub commitsghql2021-01-16FrieEnglish
Scraping liked posts on Twitter using rtweetrtweet2021-01-03Isabella VelásquezEnglish
Using av to convert audio files for compatibility with an electronic storytellerav2020-12-10Maëlle SalmonEnglish
Handling vegetation-plot information using vegtable and taxlisttaxlist2020-11-21Miguel AlvarezEnglish
Use stplanr to find and plot major streets of a citystplanr package2020-11-18AlexandraEnglish
osmdata, rnaturalearth and magick for #TidyTuesdayosmdata, rnaturalearth, magick2020-11-06Jake KauppEnglish
osmdata: Rail transport network of the three largest cities in Spainosmdata2020-10-27Guillem SalazarEnglish
A Twitter bot with rtweet, Mapbox and GitHub Actionsrtweet2020-09-25Matt DrayEnglish
Kontarion - a stack extending rocker/ml-verse for Bibliometric analyticsoai, rentrez, fulltext, europepmc, refsplitr, rcrossref, citecorp, roadoi2020-09-15Markus SkyttnerEnglish
Mapping scientific collaboration about the Anthropoce with refsplitrrefsplitr2020-09-15Emilio M BrunaEnglish
Processing Web of Science records with refsplitr to study author gender and geographyPackage refsplitr2020-09-15Emilio M BrunaEnglish
covidpreprints.com using europepmc and rAltmetriceuropepmc, rAltmetric2020-09-08Zhanghe GohEnglish
Bar chart portraits with magickmagick2020-08-23Georgios KaramanisEnglish
Basic manipulation of GIF frames with magickmagick2020-08-13Kenneth TayEnglish
Spanish and English blogs on how to use rtweet and magickrtweet, magick2020-08-01Rayna HarrisEnglish
Creating a self-updating GitHub README using rtweet and GitHub Actionsrtweet2020-07-21Zhi Yang, PhDEnglish
Extraindo tabelas de documentos pdf em R com TabulizerTabulizer2020-07-20Pedro RochaEnglish
Filtering pdfs using RegEx in their bodypdftools2020-06-25Augustus PendletonEnglish
Using qualtRics to study the effect of COVID-19 on scientistsqualtRics2020-06-21Wei Yang ThamEnglish
Using DataPackageR to create data package Pandemic Papers with Chris KnoxDataPackageR2020-06-17Steffi LaZerteEnglish
Testing an API wrapper with webmockr and vcrwebmockr, vcr, HTTP testing book2020-06-09Dave ParrEnglish
US lawmakers on Twitter during a pandemic: some corpus linguistics methodsrtweet2020-06-09Jason TimmEnglish
Create a time-lapse video using av packageav2020-06-08Iván Mauricio Cely ToroEnglish
Scrape an image from DeepZoom with R and magick, recomposing a single image from multiple tilesmagick2020-06-08André OurednikEnglish
Detecting the Effects of Sustained Glacier Wastage on Streamflow in Variably Glacierized Catchments (Using tidyhydat)tidyhydat2020-05-25Sam AlbersEnglish
Using {drake} for machine learningdrake2020-05-22Edwin ThoenEnglish
bomrang with a third party package, stationaRy, to get hourly weather data and clifro to plot wind rosesbomrang, clifro2020-05-17Adam SparksEnglish
Package for downloading shapefiles using piggybackpiggyback2020-05-11Isabella VelásquezEnglish
Visualize covid19 cases using rnaturalearth packagernaturalearth2020-05-05Rami KrispinEnglish
{drake} at Queensland Fire and Emergency Servicesdrake2020-05-04Miles McBainEnglish
Using taxadb to query taxonomic information in ecology projectstaxadb2020-04-27Gavin MastersonEnglish
Animated generative art with magickmagick2020-04-21Peter SolymosEnglish
Use of crul's retry sub-routine in an API packagecrul2020-04-16Maëlle SalmonEnglish
{Magick}ally Visualize Historical Google Maps Traffic Datamagick2020-04-10Emmanuel OlamijuwonEnglish
pdftools for parsing tables from many .pdfspdftools2020-03-31Tom MockEnglish
Searching Microsoft Academic & extracting the metadatamicrodemic2020-03-27Alexei LutayEnglish
pdftools for parsing .pdf from a URL - public data miningpdftools2020-02-15LeungiEnglish
osmdata use case: Wall Artosmdata2020-02-06mark padghamEnglish
tabulizer for parsing block-text from .pdftabulizer2020-02-01LeungiEnglish
Accessing, wrangling and plotting global weather data (for free!)rnoaa, lawn2020-01-30Jasper SlingsbyEnglish
mapping the location of biogeography researchers with `refsplitr`refsplitr2020-01-28Emilio M BrunaEnglish
Batch image manipulation using magickmagick2019-11-26Rory SpantonEnglish
Analyzing invoice data from Elsevier relative to hybrid open accessrcrossref, crminer, tabulizer2019-11-25Najko JahnEnglish
ERDDAP servers use case: tidync and rerddaprerddap, tidync2019-11-07Uryu ShinyaEnglish
Reproducible CV using rorcidrorcid2019-11-02Christopher J LortieEnglish
tidyhydat and weathercan webinartidyhydat, weathercan, hydrology task view2019-10-29Sam AlbersEnglish
Academic CV using {vitae}, {scholar} to pull papers, and {tic} for building on Travis.{vitae} and tic - both rOpenSci Labs (and excellent)2019-10-03Sam AbbottEnglish
Can {drake} RAP? Promoting {drake} for pipeline management in UK governmentdrake2019-10-02Matt DrayEnglish
drake use case involving fires!drake2019-09-27Amanda DobbynEnglish
Use rnaturalearth to get a background map in sf format for plotting with ggplotrnaturalearth2019-09-10arvi1000English
Converting MedDRA Terminology to Linked Data using rdflibrdflib2019-09-06Tim WilliamsEnglish
Using pdftools, tabulizer, and writexl to simplify business information handling workflowpdftools, tabulizer, writexl2019-08-27David HoodEnglish
Using rorcid to generate a website CVrorcid: GitHub - ropensci-archive/rorcid: ⚠ ARCHIVED A programmatic interface the Orcid.org API2019-08-20Noam RossEnglish
Use of R package review guidelines in independent manuscript reviewrOpenSci package development guide book2019-08-08Stefanie ButlandEnglish
Teaching how to create high quality R packagesrOpenSci package development guide book2019-08-05Tiffany A. TimbersEnglish
Promoting R and rOpenSci packages in UK local governmentropenaq2019-07-17Henry PartridgeEnglish
Querying linked data to improve public servicesghql2019-07-17Henry PartridgeEnglish
Using fingertipsR for public health data in UK local governmentfingertipsR2019-07-17Stefanie ButlandEnglish
Using bomrang to correlate weather conditions to sorghum stalk rot (charcoal rot)bomrang2019-07-01Adam SparksEnglish
get_clean_obs R Function (searching, pulling and cleaning citizen science records from iNaturalist and GBIF)spocc, rgbif2019-06-06KeatonwilsonEnglish
osmdata use case: Bicycle network analysis of Aucklandosmdata2019-05-30Kim FitterEnglish
Using bib2df to parse the R Journal archivesbib2df2019-05-29Maëlle SalmonEnglish
rcrossref for #TidyTuesdayrcrossref2019-05-17Jake KauppEnglish
Can rainfall be a useful predictor of epidemic risk across temporal and...nasapower2019-05-10Emerson M Del PonteEnglish
Using drake to power a new soil respiration databasedrake2019-05-04Ben Bond LambertyEnglish
qualtRics: the Stack Overflow Developer SurveyqualtRics2019-05-01Julia SilgeEnglish
Get tweet status ID from CrossRef Event Data with creventscrevents2019-04-12Tuija SonkkilaEnglish
rgbif: get a little or a *lot* of occurrence datargbif2019-04-02Stefanie ButlandEnglish
taxize: Understanding how seafood mislabelling misrepresents the conservation status of the fish on your platetaxize2019-03-29Stefanie ButlandEnglish
rBiodiversidatarredlist, taxize2019-03-28FloEnglish
weathercan: Exploring extreme weather events in my neighbourhoodweathercan2019-03-27Steph HazlittEnglish
Linking phylogenetic and geographic data using rotl and rgbifrotl, rgbif2019-03-22Emily Jane Mc TavishEnglish