GitHub has this site https://gist.github.com/ in which we can share code, text, images, maps, plots, etc super easily, without having to open up a repo, etc. GitHub gists are a great way to throw u...
I’ve been working on a Python port of the R package taxize that I maintain. It’s still early days with this Python library, I’d love to know what people think. For example, I’m giving back Pandas D...
I was in San Francisco last week for an altmetrics conference at PLOS. While there, I visited the Asian Art Museum, just the Roads of Arabia exhibition.
It was a great exhibit. While I was looking...
The Lagotto application is a Rails app that collects and serves up via RESTful API article level metrics data for research objects. So far, this application has only been applied to scholarly artic...
At rOpenSci we occasssionally hear from our users that they run into an error like:
Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE) :
easy handled already used in multi handle
This error occur...