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Whether you are an environmental scientist, a pollution expert or just concerned about the air you breathe when cycling in the United Kingdom, the ropensci rdefra package can help find the information you need. This package gives you access to the UK-AIR database, hosted by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs in the United Kingdom, directly from R. The database comprises hundreds of air quality monitoring sites and each provides time series of concentration for different pollutants such as ozone, carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides amongst others....
The new ropensci graphql package is now on CRAN. It implements R bindings to the libgraphqlparser C++ library to parse GraphQL syntax and export the syntax tree in JSON format: graphql2json("{ field(complex: { a: { b: [ $var ] } }) }") A syntax parser is perhaps not super useful to most end-users, but can be used to validate graphql queries or implement a GraphQL API in R. We hope to add more related functionality later on....
A new version of the ropensci hunspell package has been released to CRAN. Hunspell is the spell checker library used by LibreOffice, OpenOffice, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Mac OS-X, InDesign, Opera, RStudio and many others. It provides a system for tokenizing, stemming and spelling in almost any language or alphabet. The R package exposes both the high-level spell-checker as well as low-level stemmers and tokenizers which analyze or extract individual words from various formats (text, html, xml, latex)....
A new version of the ropensci magick package has been released to CRAN. Magick is a package for Advanced Image-Processing in R. It wraps the ImageMagick STL which is perhaps the most comprehensive open-source image processing library available today. Our original announcement has more details. 🔗 New features This new version now includes a beautiful vignette which gives an overview of the main functionality to get you started! It lists the various formats, transformations, effects, operations and much more....
The rOpenSci project based at the University of California, Berkeley seeks to hire a postdoctoral scholar to work on the research activities funded by the grant titled “Fostering the next generation of sustainable software and reproducible research practices in the scientific community”. The project develops open source software to promote reproducible research practices in the scientific community. The postdoctoral scholar will focus on a research topic aligned with their own interests in order to better understand and improve scientific software practices....
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