recology
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I just missed another chat on the rOpenSci website: I want to know the number of publications by people from a certain country, but I dont know how to achieve this… Fun! Let’s do that. It’s a...

Recently noticed a little Python library called httpcode that does a simple thing: gives information on http codes in the CLI. I thought this could maybe potentially be useful for R. So I made an R...

A missed chat on the rOpenSci website the other day asked: Hi there, i am trying to use the taxize package and have a .csv file of species names to run through taxize updating them. What would ...

Just today we’ve hit 1000 commits on taxize! taxize is an R client to search across lots of taxonomic databases on the web. In honor of the 1000 commit milestone, here’s some stats on the project....

Recently I had need to create a client for scraping museum metadata to help out some folks that use that kind of data. It’s called musemeta. One of the data sources in that package uses the open so...