It is getting easier to get data directly into R from the web. Often R packages that retrieve data from the web return useful R data structures to users like a data.frame. This is a good thing of c...
## What is PhyloPic?
PhyloPic is an awesome new service - I'll let the creator, [Mike Keesey](http://tmkeesey.net/), explain what it is (paraphrasing here):
> PhyloPic stores silhouette images o...
The USGS recently released a way to search for and get species occurrence records for the USA. The service is called [BISON](http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov/) (Biodiversity Information Serving Our Natio...
Scholarly metadata - the meta-information surrounding articles - can be super useful. Although metadata does not contain the full content of articles, it contains a lot of useful information, incl...
We ([rOpenSci](http://ropensci.org/)) have been writing code for R packages for a couple years, so it is time to take a look back at the data. What data you ask? The commits data from GitHub ~ data...