Friday: ropensci, manuscript edits

rOpenSci Conference Call

Catalyst grant

• Reviewed budget.
• Karthik will merge current proposals, Carl will review.  Goal: send out next week.
• Ask Mark Hahnel to look it over

Blog posts

• Carley planning to make guest blog post within the next week.

Mendeley/Plos Binary battle

• Carl will file entry form.
• Karthik push edits to rplos
• Scott will add rplos tutorial to ropensci.org
• Carl will add rmendeley tutorial to ropensci.org

Advisor Update

• Follow up with advisors once grant, binary-battle, and guest blog post are submitted (circa 1 more week).

Packages & Technical questions

• discussed rvertnet, IntWebData.
• Use xpath to process XML objects, sometimes more useful and faster than converting to list (xmlToList() function).
• See the excellent xpath tutorial from w3c.
• And some basic examples in rfishbase, explained here.
• Can someone send me the link to Hadley’s post re: R-Forge and github?

pmc manuscript edits

• Finish figures & captions.
• Response to Peter’s AIC paragraph
• Edits to rule-of-thumb shape/size section
• …

Reading

• Hmm.. experts, hedgehogs and foxes… may be interesting in the ecosystem warning signals context too.