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Use Cases

If you’re looking for examples of how our R packages or resources have been used, search no more! We collect use cases in a public forum and we created a template there to help you share yours. Below is a random subset as well as a searchable archive of all use cases. Browse them, and report your own use case(s). For more illustrations of our packages’ use, also see the citations page.

Title Resource Date Language
Linking phylogenetic and geographic data using rotl and rgbif rotl, rgbif 2019-03-22 English
weathercan: Exploring extreme weather events in my neighbourhood weathercan 2019-03-27 English
rBiodiversidata rredlist, taxize 2019-03-28 English
taxize: Understanding how seafood mislabelling misrepresents the conservation status of the fish on your plate taxize 2019-03-29 English
rgbif: get a little or a *lot* of occurrence data rgbif 2019-04-02 English
Get tweet status ID from CrossRef Event Data with crevents crevents 2019-04-12 English
qualtRics: the Stack Overflow Developer Survey qualtRics 2019-05-01 English
Using drake to power a new soil respiration database drake 2019-05-04 English
Can rainfall be a useful predictor of epidemic risk across temporal and... nasapower 2019-05-10 English
rcrossref for #TidyTuesday rcrossref 2019-05-17 English
Using bib2df to parse the R Journal archives bib2df 2019-05-29 English
osmdata use case: Bicycle network analysis of Auckland osmdata 2019-05-30 English
get_clean_obs R Function (searching, pulling and cleaning citizen science records from iNaturalist and GBIF) spocc, rgbif 2019-06-06 English
Using bomrang to correlate weather conditions to sorghum stalk rot (charcoal rot) bomrang 2019-07-01 English
Promoting R and rOpenSci packages in UK local government ropenaq 2019-07-17 English
Using fingertipsR for public health data in UK local government fingertipsR by Sebastian Fox 2019-07-17 English
Querying linked data to improve public services ghql 2019-07-17 English
Teaching how to create high quality R packages rOpenSci package development guide book 2019-08-05 English
Use of R package review guidelines in independent manuscript review rOpenSci package development guide book 2019-08-08 English
Using rorcid to generate a website CV rorcid: GitHub - ropensci-archive/rorcid: ARCHIVED A programmatic interface the Orcid.org API 2019-08-20 English
Using pdftools, tabulizer, and writexl to simplify business information handling workflow pdftools, tabulizer, writexl 2019-08-27 English
Converting MedDRA Terminology to Linked Data using rdflib rdflib 2019-09-06 English
Use rnaturalearth to get a background map in sf format for plotting with ggplot rnaturalearth 2019-09-10 English
drake use case involving fires! drake 2019-09-27 English
Can {drake} RAP? Promoting {drake} for pipeline management in UK government {drake} 2019-10-02 English
Academic CV using {vitae}, {scholar} to pull papers, and {tic} for building on Travis. {vitae} and {tic} - both rOpenSci Labs (and excellent) 2019-10-03 English
tidyhydat and weathercan webinar tidyhydat, weathercan, hydrology task view 2019-10-29 English
Reproducible CV using rorcid rorcid 2019-11-02 English
ERDDAP servers use case: tidync and rerddap rerddap and tidync 2019-11-07 English
Analyzing invoice data from Elsevier relative to hybrid open access rcrossref, crminer, tabulizer 2019-11-25 English
Batch image manipulation using magick magick 2019-11-26 English
mapping the location of biogeography researchers with `refsplitr` package refsplitr 2020-01-28 English
Accessing, wrangling and plotting global weather data (for free!) rnoaa, lawn 2020-01-30 English
tabulizer for parsing block-text from .pdf tabulizer 2020-02-01 English
osmdata use case: Wall Art osmdata 2020-02-06 English
pdftools for parsing .pdf from a URL - public data mining pdftools 2020-02-15 English
Searching Microsoft Academic & extracting the metadata microdemic 2020-03-27 English
pdftools for parsing tables from many .pdfs pdftools 2020-03-31 English
{Magick}ally Visualize Historical Google Maps Traffic Data magick 2020-04-10 English
Use of crul's retry sub-routine in an API package crul 2020-04-16 English
Animated generative art with magick magick 2020-04-21 English
Using taxadb to query taxonomic information in ecology projects taxadb 2020-04-27 English
{drake} at Queensland Fire and Emergency Services drake 2020-05-04 English
Visualize covid19 cases using rnaturalearth package rnaturalearth 2020-05-05 English
Package for downloading shapefiles using piggyback piggyback 2020-05-11 English
bomrang with a third party package, stationaRy, to get hourly weather data and clifro to plot wind roses bomrang, clifro 2020-05-17 English
Using {drake} for machine learning drake 2020-05-22 English
Detecting the Effects of Sustained Glacier Wastage on Streamflow in Variably Glacierized Catchments (Using tidyhydat) tidyhydat 2020-05-25 English
Create a time-lapse video using av package av 2020-06-08 English
Scrape an image from DeepZoom with R and magick, recomposing a single image from multiple tiles magick 2020-06-08 English
US lawmakers on Twitter during a pandemic: some corpus linguistics methods rtweet 2020-06-09 English
Testing an API wrapper with webmockr and vcr webmockr and vcr with the HTTP testing book. This question on ROpenSci helped me discover the tools 2020-06-09 English
Using DataPackageR to create data package Pandemic Papers with Chris Knox DataPackageR 2020-06-17 English
Using qualtRics to study the effect of COVID-19 on scientists qualtRics 2020-06-21 English
Filtering pdfs using RegEx in their body pdftools 2020-06-25 English
Extraindo tabelas de documentos pdf em R com Tabulizer Tabulizer 2020-07-20 Portuguese
Creating a self-updating GitHub README using rtweet and GitHub Actions rtweet 2020-07-21 English
Spanish and English blogs on how to use rtweet and magick rtweet, magick 2020-08-01 English
Basic manipulation of GIF frames with magick magick 2020-08-13 English
Bar chart portraits with magick magick 2020-08-23 English
covidpreprints.com using europepmc and rAltmetric europepmc, rAltmetric 2020-09-08 English
Kontarion - a stack extending rocker/ml-verse for Bibliometric analytics oai, rentrez, fulltext, europepmc, refsplitr, rcrossref, citecorp, roadoi 2020-09-15 English
Mapping scientific collaboration about the Anthropoce with refsplitr Package refsplitr 2020-09-15 English
Processing Web of Science records with refsplitr to study author gender and geography Package refsplitr 2020-09-15 English
A Twitter bot with rtweet, Mapbox and GitHub Actions rtweet 2020-09-25 English
osmdata: Rail transport network of the three largest cities in Spain osmdata 2020-10-27 English
osmdata, rnaturalearth and magick for #TidyTuesday osmdata, rnaturalearth, magick 2020-11-06 English
Use stplanr to find and plot major streets of a city stplanr package 2020-11-18 English
Handling vegetation-plot information using vegtable and taxlist taxlist 2020-11-21 English
Using av to convert audio files for compatibility with an electronic storyteller av 2020-12-10 English
Scraping liked posts on Twitter using rtweet rtweet 2021-01-03 English
Using ghql to analyze all my 2020 GitHub commits ghql 2021-01-16 English
Getting and plotting weather and climate data weathercan 2021-01-21 English
Using dittodb to test database queries dittodb 2021-01-25 English
Shiny apps to search #rstudioglobal or #rstats tweets with rtweet rtweet 2021-01-25 English
pdftools for extracting complex (e.g. text-wrapped/multiline) tables from pdfs pdftools 2021-01-26 English
Use gert to scan all git repos in a directory gert 2021-02-01 English
Mapping collaborations in Neotropical Taxonomy with refsplitr refsplitr 2021-02-06 English
Using terrainr to retrieve spatial data and make 3D landscape visualizations terrainr 2021-03-01 English
Teaching an introduction to workflow management using drake drake 2021-03-25 English
Using RSelenium to scrape a paginated HTML table RSelenium 2021-04-12 English
Scraping Google Play Reviews with RSelenium RSelenium 2021-05-11 English
Easily analyzing tweets using rtweet rtweet 2021-05-12 English
Most tweeted words each month: a year snapshot rtweet 2021-05-17 English
Using tabulizer to extract tabular data from daily COVID-19 reports tabulizer 2021-06-07 English
Using rotl to create phylogenetic trees rotl 2021-06-12 English
Mapping Asian elephant observations with rgbif rgbif 2021-06-23 English
Environment Canada air temperature using weathercan weathercan 2021-07-02 English
Historical dataviz recreations with a sprinkle of magick magick 2021-07-04 English
pdftools + tesseract para extraer texto en español pdftoolstesseract 2021-07-15 English
pdftools + map to download & read multiple pdfs pdftools 2021-07-15 English
Investigating the drought in the Canadian prairies weathercan 2021-07-26 English
targets pipeline with RMarkdown to download and visualize USGS data targets 2021-07-26 English
Answering 'what colour is London?' with magick and rtweet rtweet magick 2021-07-27 English
Informal package review using rOpenSci review template Review template from the package development guide 2021-08-04 English
Bayesian Regression Analysis with Rstanarm (with GSODR for supporting data) GSODR 2021-09-02 English
Slicing an image with magick for artistic effect magick 2021-09-07 English
Using stplanr to find shortest road network distance to a TB treatment clinic from a TB patients' household. stplanr 2021-09-20 English
Using jsonvalidate to validate the packages.json file from your personal universe jsonvalidate (and R-universe) 2021-10-05 English
Creating historical Congressional maps with USABoundaries USAboundaries 2021-10-10 English
Predizendo volume de eucalipto com tidymodels, XGBoost e targets targets 2021-10-13 Portuguese
Evaluating semi-parametric nowcasts of COVID-19 hospital admissions in Germany targets, piggyback 2021-11-30 English
Calculating US Residential Segregation Indices in A Reproducible Pipeline targets 2022-02-11 English
Use rtweet to manage lists and who you follow rtweet 2022-02-22 English
Using vcr for HTTP testing of a package for Kobotoolbox vcr the excellent http testing in r book 2022-03-24 English
Estimating leaf temperatures worldwide nasapower 2022-04-21 English
Analyze your Twitter timeline with rtweet and lubridate rtweet 2022-05-14 English
Extração de dados sobre heróis negros e negras da Marvel e DC tabulizer [pt-br] 2022-05-30 Portuguese
Map of linguae francae of Dagestan, Russia lingtypology 2022-06-02 English
Using taxize and highcharter in R to extract and visualize taxonomic data taxize 2022-09-13 English
Using handlr to convert bibtex citation to cff handlr 2022-09-16 English
Using a targets pipeline to query data from the Water Quality Portal targetsdataRetrieval 2022-10-03 English
Backing up GitHub organisation with gitcellar gitcellar blog post: Safeguards and Backups for GitHub Organizations 2022-10-12 English
Adding missing EXIF data to wildlife trail camera images magick 2022-11-10 English
Delete all your tweets using rtweet rtweet 2022-11-22 English
Using targets for an omics analysis and report / manuscript targets 2023-06-26 English
A toolkit workflow for climate-sensitive infectious disease modelling targets, tarchetypes 2023-10-05 English
Targets and other tools to make college comparison website The {targets} R package user manual for the targets and tarchetypes packages 2023-11-01 English
Unlock R functions with QR codes The opencv package 2023-11-02 English
Using {weatherOz} to Plot Perth's May High Temperatures {weatherOz} 2024-06-09 English
OAI interface request, response, and data download with R oai 2024-06-14 English
Translating Carpentries workbench lessons with babeldown The babeldown R package 2024-07-16 English
METAR analysis for flight conditions riem 2025-02-20 English
Visualizing Highways, Toll Booths with {ggplot2} in R with {osmextract} osmextract 2025-03-01 English
Combining with Population Density Rasters with OSM data in R with {sf}, {osmextract} and {ggplot2} osmextract 2025-03-01 English
Translating course to Spanish and French babelquarto 2025-03-25 English
Multilingual support for Teaching Tech Together Book babelquarto 2025-04-25 English, Spanish
Enseñando datos espaciales vectoriales en R rnaturalearth 2025-04-28 Spanish