Publications by rOpenSci Blog - R
Rentrez 1_0 released
A new version of rentrez, our package for the NCBI's EUtils API, is making it's way around the CRAN mirrors. This release represents a substantial improvement to rentrez, including a new vignette that documents the whole package. This posts describes some of the new things in rentrez, and gives us a chance to thank some of the people that have c...
4588 sym R (2807 sym/10 pcs)
Rentrez 1.0 released
A new version of rentrez, our package for the NCBI's EUtils API, is making it's way around the CRAN mirrors. This release represents a substantial improvement to rentrez, including a new vignette that documents the whole package. This posts describes some of the new things in rentrez, and gives us a chance to thank some of the people that have c...
4588 sym R (2807 sym/10 pcs)
Introducing pdftools – A fast and portable PDF extractor
Scientific articles are typically locked away in PDF format, a format designed primarily for printing but not so great for searching or indexing. The new pdftools package allows for extracting text and metadata from pdf files in R. From the extracted plain-text one could find articles discussing a particular drug or species name, without having t...
3572 sym R (866 sym/9 pcs)
Australian rOpenSci Unconference
The rOpenSci Unconference is coming to Australia and we are excited!! The event will take place in sunny Brisbane, on April 21-22 2016 hosted at the Microsoft Innovation Centre. You can find more information about the event and how to register at http://www.auunconf.ropensci.org. I was completely and unceremoniously thrown into the deep end when...
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rOpenSci geospatial libraries
Geospatial data input/output, manipulation, and vizualization are tasks that are common to many disciplines. Thus, we're keenly interested in making great tools in this space. We have an increasing set of spatial tools, each of which we'll cover sparingly. See the cran and github badges for more information. We are not trying to replace the curre...
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