rOpenSci

Stefanie Butland

### rOpenSci HQ

- The recording, collaborative notes and links to community discussion
  and resources are up for our latest [Community Call on Maintaining an
  R package](/commcalls/2020-03-18/). Panel moderated by Julia Silge
  included Elin Waring, Erin Grand, Leonardo Collado-Torres, and Scott
  Chamberlain.

 

### Software Peer Review

1 staff-contributed package passed [software peer
review](/software-review/).

- **[parzer](https://docs.ropensci.org/parzer/)** - Parse messy
  geographic coordinates. Author: [Scott
  Chamberlain](/author/scott-chamberlain/); Reviewers: [Julien
  Brun](https://github.com/brunj7), [María Victoria
  Munafó](https://github.com/mvickm); Read the
  [Review](https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/341)

*On March 16, we paused new submissions for software peer review for 30
days (possibly longer) in the interest of reducing load on reviewers and
editors in light of the COVID-19 crisis.*

 

### Software

5 new packages from the community and our staff are on CRAN.

- **[ghql](https://docs.ropensci.org/ghql/)** - General purpose GraphQL
  client for R. Author: [Scott Chamberlain](/author/scott-chamberlain/)

- **[osfr](https://docs.ropensci.org/osfr/)** - Interface to the Open
  Science Framework (OSF). Author: [Aaron
  Wolen](https://github.com/aaronwolen)

- **[outsider.base](https://docs.ropensci.org/outsider.base/)** - Base
  package for [outsider](https://docs.ropensci.org/outsider/). Author:
  [Dom Bennett](/author/dom-bennett/)

- **[parzer](https://docs.ropensci.org/parzer/)** - Parse messy
  geographic coordinates. Author: [Scott
  Chamberlain](/author/scott-chamberlain/)

- **[taxadb](https://docs.ropensci.org/taxadb/)** - A High-Performance
  Local Taxonomic Database Interface. Author: [Kari
  Norman](/author/kari-norman/)

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<img src="2months2mins_hex_apr2020_wh.png" width="500"
alt="hex logos of R packages osfr outsider opentripplanner taxadb" />
</figure>

 

### On the Blog

#### From the rOpenSci team

- [**parzer**: Parse Messy Geographic
  Coordinates](/technotes/2020/03/19/parzer/) Tech Note - [Scott
  Chamberlain](/author/scott-chamberlain/)

- [10 Things We Learned in Creating the Blog Guide with
  bookdown](/blog/2020/04/07/bookdown-learnings/) - [Stefanie
  Butland](/author/stefanie-butland/), [Maëlle
  Salmon](/author/ma%C3%ABlle-salmon/)

- [2 Months in 2 Minutes - rOpenSci News, February
  2020](/blog/2020/02/20/news-feb2020/) - [Stefanie
  Butland](/author/stefanie-butland/)

#### From the community

- [rOpenSci's Leadership in \#rstats
  Culture](/blog/2020/02/21/ropensci-leadership/) - [Julia Stewart
  Lowndes](/author/julia-stewart-lowndes/)

- [**opentripplanner**: Fast and Easy Multimodal Trip Planning in R with
  OpenTripPlanner](/technotes/2020/02/25/opentripplanner/) Tech Note -
  [Malcolm Morgan](/author/malcolm-morgan/)

- [Supercharge your GitHub Actions Experience with
  **tic**](/technotes/2020/03/13/tic-ghactions/) Tech Note - [Patrick
  Schratz](/author/patrick-schratz/)

 

### Use Cases

- 76 published works cited or used rOpenSci software (listed in
  individual newsletters)

- 2 use cases for our packages or resources were posted in our
  [discussion forum](https://discuss.ropensci.org/c/usecases) Look for
  **microdemic**, **magick**

*Have you used an rOpenSci package? [Share your use
case](https://discuss.ropensci.org/c/usecases) and we'll tweet about
it.*

 

### From the Forum

*We have a discussion forum (using Discourse) for the rOpenSci
community. It's a really nice way to have conversations on the internet.
From time to time we'll highlight recent discussions of interest.*

- Peter Desmet asked a question that many R package maintainers run in
  to: [What if raw data in package is too
  large?](https://discuss.ropensci.org/t/what-if-raw-data-in-package-is-too-large/1955)

- Emilio Bruna asked: [What is best practice when a dependency is
  removed from
  CRAN?](https://discuss.ropensci.org/t/what-is-best-practice-when-a-dependency-is-removed-from-cran/1971)

 

### In the News

- [Python 101: Learning About
  Lists](https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2020/03/10/python-101-learning-about-lists/) -
  A good introduction to lists in Python; they're kind of like R lists.
  It's an important data structure to know if you're going to be
  learning Python

- [Necessary &
  Sufficient](https://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2020-02-25-necessary-and-sufficient/) -
  A good read on how to think about testing in general

 

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rOpenSci HQ  The recording, collaborative notes and links to community discussion and resources are up for our latest Community Call on Maintaining an R package. Panel moderated by Julia Silge included Elin Waring, Erin Grand, Leonardo Collado-Torres, and Scott Chamberlain.   Software Peer Review   1 staff-contributed package passed software peer review.
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 parzer
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- Parse messy geographic coordinates.

Messaggi di Rogue Scholar

2 Months in 2 Minutes - rOpenSci News, April 2020