Friday: ropensci, manuscript edits

rOpenSci Conference Call

Catalyst grant

  • Reviewed budget.
  • Karthik will merge current proposals, Carl will review.  Goal: send out next week.
  • Ask Mark Hahnel to look it over

Blog posts

  • Carley planning to make guest blog post within the next week.

Mendeley/Plos Binary battle

  • Carl will file entry form.
  • Karthik push edits to rplos
  • Scott will add rplos tutorial to ropensci.org
  • Carl will add rmendeley tutorial to ropensci.org

Advisor Update

  • Follow up with advisors once grant, binary-battle, and guest blog post are submitted (circa 1 more week).

Packages & Technical questions

  • discussed rvertnet, IntWebData.
  • Use xpath to process XML objects, sometimes more useful and faster than converting to list (xmlToList() function).
  • See the excellent xpath tutorial from w3c.
  • And some basic examples in rfishbase, explained here.
  • Can someone send me the link to Hadley’s post re: R-Forge and github?

pmc manuscript edits

  • Finish figures & captions.
  • Response to Peter’s AIC paragraph
  • Edits to rule-of-thumb shape/size section

Reading