I was returning to a long-term project I’ve been working on - a package for caching HTTP requests in R called vcr, a port of the Ruby gem vcr - when you do that thing you do when you are porting a ...
The problem
The R community has a package distribution thing called CRAN just like Ruby has Rubygems, and Python has Pypi, etc. On all packages on CRAN, the CRAN maintainers run checks on each pac...
I wrote about Crossref clients back nearly two years ago on this blog: Crossref programmatic clients.
Since it’s been a while, it seems worth talking again about the the many ways to work programm...
If you maintain an R package, or even use R packages, you may have looked at CRAN check results. These are essentially the results of running R CMD CHECK on a package. They do these for each packag...
gbifrb is a new Ruby client for the GBIF API.
docs: http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/gbifrb/
rubygems: https://rubygems.org/gems/gbifrb
code: https://github.com/sckott/gbifrb
I maintain (w/ h...