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Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. We strive for high quality in our suite of packages, in practice via a system of software peer review, and via packaging guidelines that keep growing. There is therefore a risk of increasing the workload of package authors, who already have a lot on their plate. To avoid that, when explaining how to do things in our dev guide, we recommend existing automated tools to authors. The usethis package implements this important principle: Automate that which can be automated. Your computer was literally born to implement rote-but-fussy stuff for you ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. As announced in our recent post about updates to our Software Peer Review system, all our package development, review and maintenance is available as an online book. Our goal is to update it approximately quarterly so it’s already time to present its second official version! You can read the changelog or this blog post to find out what’s new in our dev guide 0.2.0! A more legit and accessible book Let’s start with very exciting news, the dev guide now has a cover, designed by Oz Locke from Locke Creatives! ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. NASA generates and provides heaps of data to the scientific community. Not allof it is looking out at the stars. Some of it is looking back at us here onEarth. NASA’s Earth science program observes, understands and models theEarth system. We can use these data to discover how our Earth is changing,to better predict change, and to understand the consequences for life on Earth. The Earth science program includes thePrediction of Worldwide Energy Resource (POWER)project, which was initiated to improve upon the current renewable energy dataset and to create new ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. Introduction Open Trade Statistics (OTS) was created with the intention to lower the barrier to working with international economic trade data. It includes a public API, a dashboard, and an R package for data retrieval. The project started when I was affected by the fact that many Latin American Universities have limited or no access to the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN COMTRADE). There are alternatives to COMTRADE, for example the Base Pour L’Analyse du Commerce International (BACI) constitutes an improvement over COMTRADE as it is constructed using ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. conditionz is a new (just on CRAN today) R package for controlling how many times conditions are thrown. This package arises from an annoyance in another set of packages I maintain: The brranching package usesthe taxize package internally, calling it’s function taxize::tax_name(). The taxize::tax_name() functionthrows useful messages to the user if their API key is not found, and gives them instructionson how to find it. However, the user does not have to get an API key. If they don’t they then get subjected tolots of repeats of the same message ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. Last month we released a new version of pdftools and a new companion package qpdf for working with pdf files in R. This release introduces the ability to perform pdf transformations, such as splitting and combining pages from multiple files. Moreover, the pdf_data() function which was introduced in pdftools 2.0 is now available on all major systems. Split and Join PDF files It is now possible to split, join, and compress pdf files with pdftools. For example the pdf_subset() function creates a new pdf file with a selection of the ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. Importance of Hydrology Given that liquid water is essential to life on Earth, water research cuts across numerous disciplines including hydrology, meteorology, geography, climate science, engineering, ecology, and more. Numerous R packages have emerged from this diversity of approaches, and we recently gathered many of them into a new rOpenSci task view which we broadly titled ‘Hydrology’ and published to CRAN. Our intent is to be exhaustive and compile R packages to access, model, and summarise information related to the movement of water across the Earth’s landscape. We hope to ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. Version 7.0.0 of drake just arrived on CRAN, and it is faster and easier to use than previous releases. install.packages("drake") Recap Data analysis can be slow. A round of scientific computation can take several minutes, hours, or even days to complete. After it finishes, if you update your code or data, your hard-earned results may no longer be valid. How much of that valuable output can you keep, and how much do you need to update? How much runtime must you endure all over again? For projects in R, the ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. Citations are a crucial piece of scholarly work. They hold metadata on each scholarly work, including what people were involved, what year the work was published, where it was published, and more. The links between citations facilitate insight into many questions about scholarly work. Citations come in many different formats including BibTex, RIS, JATS, and many more. This is not to be confused with citation styles such as APA vs. MLA and so on. Those that deal with or do research on citations often get citations in one format (e.g., ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. The ssh package provides a native ssh client for R. You can connect to a remote server over SSH to transfer files via SCP, setup a secure tunnel, or run a command or script on the host while streaming stdout and stderr directly to the client. The intro vignette provides a brief introduction. This week version 0.4 has been released, so you can install it directly from CRAN: install.packages("ssh") The NEWS file shows that this is mostly a bugfix release: ssh 0.4: - Fix for security problem with latest openssh-server ... Read More