I’ve been working on a little thing called httping - a small R package that started as a pkg to Ping urls and time requests. It’s a port of the Ruby gem httping. The httr package is in Depends in t...
We’ve (ropensci) been working on an R client for interacting with Elasticsearch for a while now, first commit was November 2013.
Elasticsearch is a document database built on the JVM. elastic inte...
I maintain, along with other awesome people, the taxize R package - a taxonomic toolbelt for R, for interacting with taxonomic data sources on the web.
Taxonomy data is not standardized, but there...
Discourse is a great discussion forum application. It’s another thing from Jeff Atwood, the co-founder of Stackoverflow/Stackexchange. The installation is epecially easy with their dockerized insta...
At rOpenSci we’ve been working on an R package (geojsonio) to make converting R data in various formats to geoJSON and topoJSON, and vice versa. We hope to do this one job very well, and handle all...