rOpenSci

Stefanie Butland

### rOpenSci HQ 👨🏽‍💻👩🏼‍💻 🏗️ {#ropensci-hq--}

- Join our next [Community Call on Involving Multilingual
  Communities](/commcalls/2019-06-28/) June 28th.
- Video of our [Community Call on Security for
  R](/commcalls/2019-05-07/) is up, with a long list of resources.
- Our Community Manager, Stefanie Butland, spoke at R-Ladies Seattle and
  Fred Hutch about rOpenSci, Learning R, and Building Community May
  22nd.

### Software Peer Review ✔

6 community-contributed packages passed [software peer
review](/software-review/)

- [nbaR](https://docs.ropensci.org/nbaR/) - R Package Client for the
  Netherlands Biodiversity API
  - Author: [Hannes Hettling](https://github.com/hettling)
  - Issue:
    [ropensci/onboarding#257](https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/257)
  - Reviewers:
    - [Dom Bennett](https://github.com/DomBennett)
    - [Max Joseph](https://github.com/mbjoseph)
- [git2rdata](https://docs.ropensci.org/git2rdata/) - Store and Retrieve
  Data.frames in a Git Repository
  - Author: [Thierry Onkelinx](https://github.com/ThierryO)
  - Issue:
    [ropensci/onboarding#263](https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/263)
  - Reviewers:
    - [Jenny Bryan](https://github.com/jennybc)
    - [Brodie Gaslam](https://github.com/brodieG)
- [citesdb](https://docs.ropensci.org/citesdb/) - A high-performance
  database of shipment-level CITES trade data
  - Author: [Noam Ross](https://github.com/noamross)
  - Issue:
    [ropensci/onboarding#292](https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/292)
  - Reviewers:
    - [pachamaltese](https://github.com/pachamaltese)
    - [Xavier Rotllan-Puig](https://github.com/xavi-rp)
- [MtreeRing](https://docs.ropensci.org/MtreeRing/) - A Shiny
  Application for Automatic Measurements of Tree-Ring Widths on Digital
  Images
  - Author: [Jingning Shi](https://github.com/JingningShi)
  - Issue:
    [ropensci/onboarding#287](https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/287)
  - Reviewers:
    - [Brandon Hurr](https://github.com/bhive01)
    - [Rory Nolan](https://github.com/rorynolan)
- [rromeo](https://docs.ropensci.org/rromeo/) - An R Client for
  SHERPA/RoMEO API
  - Author: [Matthias Grenié](https://github.com/Rekyt)
  - Issue:
    [ropensci/onboarding#285](https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/285)
  - Reviewers:
    - [Philipp Ottolinger](https://github.com/ottlngr)
    - [Bruna Wundervald](https://github.com/brunaw)
- [tidync](https://docs.ropensci.org/tidync/) - A Tidy Approach to
  'NetCDF' Data Exploration and Extraction
  - Author: [Michael Sumner](https://github.com/mdsumner)
  - Issue:
    [ropensci/onboarding#174](https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/174)
  - Reviewers:
    - [Tim Lucas](https://github.com/timcdlucas)
    - [Jakub Nowosad](https://github.com/Nowosad)

*Consider [submitting your
package](https://devguide.ropensci.org/softwarereviewintro.html) or
[volunteering to
review](https://devguide.ropensci.org/softwarereviewintro.html#whyreview).*

### Software 📦

9 new packages on CRAN

- [beastier](https://docs.ropensci.org/beastier/) - provides a way to
  call BEAST2 from R
- [colocr](https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/colocr/vignettes/using_colocr.html) -
  conduct co-localization analysis of fluorescence microscopy images
- [conditionz](https://docs.ropensci.org/conditionz/) - control how many
  times conditions are thrown
- [jenkins](https://docs.ropensci.org/jenkins/) - Simple Jenkins Client
  for R
- [plotdap](https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/plotdap/vignettes/using_plotdap.html) -
  easily visualize data from ERDDAP servers via the rerddap package
- [ramlegacy](https://docs.ropensci.org/ramlegacy/) - download and read
  RAM legacy stock assessment database
- [rromeo](https://docs.ropensci.org/rromeo/) - access publisher
  copyright & self-archiving policies via the SHERPA/RoMEO API
- [suppdata](https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/suppdata/vignettes/suppdata-intro.pdf) -
  downloading supplementary data from published manuscripts
- [tidync](https://docs.ropensci.org/tidync/) - a tidy approach to
  NetCDF data exploration and extraction

### On the Blog ✍🏼

#### From the rOpenSci team

- [rOpenSci Dev Guide 0.2.0: Updates Inside and
  Out](/blog/2019/05/16/dev-guide-update/)
- [Introducing the new rOpenSci docs
  server](/technotes/2019/06/07/ropensci-docs/)
- [Taking over maintenance of a software
  package](/blog/2019/06/12/taking-over-maint/)
- [conditionz: control how many times conditions are
  thrown](/technotes/2019/04/24/conditionz/)
- [Join, split, and compress PDF files with
  pdftools](/technotes/2019/04/24/pdftools-22/)
- [rodev: helpers for rOpenSci package
  authors](/technotes/2019/05/21/rodev/)

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<img src="/img/blog-images/2019-06-20-news-jun2019/cover.png"
width="200"
alt="cover of rOpenSci dev guide, showing a package production line with small humans discussing, examining and promoting packages" />
</figure>

#### From the community

- [When Standards Go Wild - Software Review for a
  Manuscript](/blog/2019/04/18/wild-standards/) -- Stefanie Butland \|
  Nick Golding \| Chris Grieves \| Hugo Gruson \| Thomas White \| Hao Ye
- [Relaunching the qualtRics
  package](/blog/2019/04/30/qualtrics-relaunch/) -- Julia Silge
- [Access Publisher Copyright & Self-Archiving Policies via the
  'SHERPA/RoMEO' API](/blog/2019/06/04/rromeo/) -- Matthias Grenié \|
  Hugo Gruson
- [ramlegacy: a package for RAM Legacy
  Database](/blog/2019/05/28/ramlegacy/) -- Kshitiz Gupta \| Carl
  Boettiger
- [POWER to the People](/blog/2019/05/14/nasapower/) -- Adam Sparks
- [Open Trade Statistics](/blog/2019/05/09/tradestatistics/) -- Pachá
  (aka Mauricio Vargas Sepúlveda)

### Use Cases 📝🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏻‍♂️ {#use-cases-}

- 38 published works cited or used rOpenSci software
- 7 use cases were posted in our [discussion
  forum](https://discuss.ropensci.org/c/usecases)

Example: [Get tweet status ID from CrossRef Event Data with our crevents
package](https://discuss.ropensci.org/t/get-tweet-status-id-from-crossref-event-data-with-crevents/1665).
Tuija Sonkkila wrote about working with altmetrics data in her post
"Everyday altmetrics". She shared her code and link to a Shiny app.

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<img
src="/img/blog-images/2019-06-20-news-jun2019/tuija_crevents_post.png"
width="400"
alt="cover of rOpenSci dev guide, showing a package production line with small humans discussing, examining and promoting packages" />
</figure>

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

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rOpenSci HQ 👨🏽‍💻👩🏼‍💻 🏗️  Join our next Community Call on Involving Multilingual Communities June 28th. Video of our Community Call on Security for R is up, with a long list of resources. Our Community Manager, Stefanie Butland, spoke at R-Ladies Seattle and Fred Hutch about rOpenSci, Learning R, and Building Community May 22nd.

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