API

analogsea is now on CRAN. We started developing the pkg back in May 2014, but just now getting the first version on CRAN. It’s a collaboration with Hadley and Winston Chang. Most of analogsea package is for interacting with the Digital Ocean API, including: Manage domains Manage ssh keys Get actions Manage images Manage droplets (servers) A number of convenience functions are included for doing tasks (e.g., resizing a droplet) that aren’t supported by Digital Ocean’s API out of the box (i....

NOAA provides a lot of weather data, across many different websites under different project names. The R package rnoaa accesses many of these, including: NOAA NCDC climate data, using the NCDC API version 2 GHCND FTP data ISD FTP data Severe weather data docs are at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/swdiws/ Sea ice data NOAA buoy data Tornadoes! Data from the NOAA Storm Prediction Center HOMR - Historical Observing Metadata Repository - from NOAA NCDC Storm data - from the International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS) rnoaa used to provide access to ERDDAP servers, but a separate package rerddap focuses on just those data sources....

ERDDAP is a data server that gives you a simple, consistent way to download subsets of gridded and tabular scientific datasets in common file formats and make graphs and maps. Besides it’s own RESTful interface, much of which is designed based on OPeNDAP, ERDDAP can act as an OPeNDAP server and as a WMS server for gridded data. ERDDAP is a powerful tool - in a world of heterogeneous data, it’s often hard to combine data and serve it through the same interface, with tools for querying/filtering/subsetting the data....

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 interacts with the Elasticsearch HTTP API, and includes functions for setting connection details to Elasticsearch instances, loading bulk data, searching for documents with both HTTP query variables and JSON based body requests. In addition, elastic provides functions for interacting with APIs for indices, documents, nodes, clusters, an interface to the cat API, and more....

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 installation setup on DigitalOcean ([instructions here][https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-discourse-on-ubuntu-14-04]). In rOpenSci, we’ve been using a Google Groups mailing list, which is sufficient I guess, but doesn’t support Markdown, and we all know Google can kill products any day, so it makes sense to use something with which we have more control....

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 articles, but will see action on datasets soon. Martin Fenner has lead the development of Lagotto. He recently set up a discussion site if you want to chat about it. The application has a nice GUI interface, and a quite nice RESTful API....

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 articles, but will see action on datasets soon. Martin Fenner has lead the development of Lagotto. He recently set up a discussion site if you want to chat about it. The application has a nice GUI interface, and a quite nice RESTful API....

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 occurs in the httr package that we use to do http requests to sources of data on the web. It happens when e.g., you make a lot of requests to a resource, then it gets interrupted somehow - then you make another call, and you get the error above....

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 bit complicated because there is no field like geography of the authors. But there are affiliation fields, from which we can collect data we need. Installation You’ll need the GitHub version for the coutry names data, or just use the CRAN version, and get country names elsewhere....

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 version. Installation devtools::install_github("sckott/httpcode") library("httpcode") Search by http code http_code(100) #> <Status code: 100> #> Message: Continue #> Explanation: Request received, please continue http_code(400) #> <Status code: 400> #> Message: Bad Request #> Explanation: Bad request syntax or unsupported method http_code(503) #> <Status code: 503> #> Message: Service Unavailable #> Explanation: The server cannot process the request due to a high load http_code(999) #> Error: No description found for code: 999 Fuzzy code search http_code('1xx') #> [[1]] #> <Status code: 100> #> Message: Continue #> Explanation: Request received, please continue #> #> [[2]] #> <Status code: 101> #> Message: Switching Protocols #> Explanation: Switching to new protocol; obey Upgrade header #> #> [[3]] #> <Status code: 102> #> Message: Processing #> Explanation: WebDAV; RFC 2518 http_code('3xx') #> [[1]] #> <Status code: 300> #> Message: Multiple Choices #> Explanation: Object has several resources -- see URI list #> #> [[2]] #> <Status code: 301> #> Message: Moved Permanently #> Explanation: Object moved permanently -- see URI list #> #> [[3]] #> <Status code: 302> #> Message: Found #> Explanation: Object moved temporarily -- see URI list #> #> [[4]] #> <Status code: 303> #> Message: See Other #> Explanation: Object moved -- see Method and URL list #> #> [[5]] #> <Status code: 304> #> Message: Not Modified #> Explanation: Document has not changed since given time #> #> [[6]] #> <Status code: 305> #> Message: Use Proxy #> Explanation: You must use proxy specified in Location to access this resource....