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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.

Featuring: drake.

Reported on: May 4, 2020.

Featuring: nasapower.

Reported on: Apr 21, 2022.

Featuring: rtweet.

Reported on: May 14, 2022.

Title Resource Date Reporter Language
Automated generation of a taxonomic classification document taxlist, targets 2025-06-13 Joel Nitta English
Enseñando datos espaciales vectoriales en R rnaturalearth 2025-04-28 Yanina Bellini Saibene Spanish
Multilingual support for Teaching Tech Together Book babelquarto 2025-04-25 Yanina Bellini Saibene English Spanish
Translating course to Spanish and French babelquarto 2025-03-25 Yann Say English
Combining with Population Density Rasters with OSM data in R with {sf}, {osmextract} and {ggplot2} osmextract 2025-03-01 Aditya Dahiya English
Visualizing Highways, Toll Booths with {ggplot2} in R with {osmextract} osmextract 2025-03-01 Aditya Dahiya English
METAR analysis for flight conditions riem 2025-02-20 Maëlle Salmon English
Translating Carpentries workbench lessons with babeldown babeldown 2024-07-16 Hugo Gruson English
OAI interface request, response, and data download with R oai 2024-06-14 Jörg Lehmann English
Using {weatherOz} to Plot Perth's May High Temperatures weatherOz 2024-06-09 Adam Sparks English
Unlock R functions with QR codes opencv 2023-11-02 Matt Dray English
Targets and other tools to make college comparison website The user manual for the targets and tarchetypes packages 2023-11-01 Brian O’Meara English
A toolkit workflow for climate-sensitive infectious disease modelling targets, tarchetypes 2023-10-05 Raphael Saldanha English
Using targets for an omics analysis and report / manuscript targets 2023-06-26 Robert M Flight English
Delete all your tweets using rtweet rtweet 2022-11-22 Julia Silge English
Adding missing EXIF data to wildlife trail camera images magick 2022-11-10 Neil Saunders English
Backing up GitHub organisation with gitcellar gitcellar, Safeguards and Backups for GitHub Organizations 2022-10-12 Hugo Gruson English
Using a targets pipeline to query data from the Water Quality Portal targets, dataRetrieval 2022-10-03 Julie English
Using handlr to convert bibtex citation to cff handlr 2022-09-16 Athanasia Monika Mowinckel English
Using taxize and highcharter in R to extract and visualize taxonomic data taxize 2022-09-13 Stepminer English
Map of linguae francae of Dagestan, Russia lingtypology 2022-06-02 George Moroz English
Extração de dados sobre heróis negros e negras da Marvel e DC tabulizer [pt-br] 2022-05-30 Fernando Almeida Barbalho Portuguese
Analyze your Twitter timeline with rtweet and lubridate rtweet 2022-05-14 Albert Rapp English
Estimating leaf temperatures worldwide nasapower 2022-04-21 Paul Melloy English
Using vcr for HTTP testing of a package for Kobotoolbox vcr, http testing book 2022-03-24 Frie English
Use rtweet to manage lists and who you follow rtweet 2022-02-22 Steph Locke English
Calculating US Residential Segregation Indices in A Reproducible Pipeline targets 2022-02-11 Boyi Guo English
Evaluating semi-parametric nowcasts of COVID-19 hospital admissions in Germany targets, piggyback 2021-11-30 Sam Abbott English
Predizendo volume de eucalipto com tidymodels, XGBoost e targets targets 2021-10-13 Theilon Macêdo Portuguese
Creating historical Congressional maps with USABoundaries USAboundaries 2021-10-10 Andrew Heiss English
Using jsonvalidate to validate the packages.json file from your personal universe jsonvalidate, R-universe 2021-10-05 Hugo Gruson English
Using stplanr to find shortest road network distance to a TB treatment clinic from a TB patients' household. stplanr 2021-09-20 McEwen Khundi English
Slicing an image with magick for artistic effect magick 2021-09-07 Georgios Karamanis English
Bayesian Regression Analysis with Rstanarm (with GSODR for supporting data) GSODR 2021-09-02 Adam Sparks English
Informal package review using rOpenSci review template Review template from the package development guide 2021-08-04 Hugo Gruson English
Answering 'what colour is London?' with magick and rtweet rtweet, magick 2021-07-27 Matt Dray English
Investigating the drought in the Canadian prairies weathercan 2021-07-26 Alex Koiter English
targets pipeline with RMarkdown to download and visualize USGS data targets 2021-07-26 Lindsay Platt English
pdftools + map to download & read multiple pdfs pdftools 2021-07-15 Silvia Gutiérrez English
pdftools + tesseract para extraer texto en español pdftools, tesseract 2021-07-15 Silvia Gutiérrez English
Historical dataviz recreations with a sprinkle of magick magick 2021-07-04 Matt Dray English
Environment Canada air temperature using weathercan weathercan 2021-07-02 Alexandre Bevington English
Mapping Asian elephant observations with rgbif rgbif 2021-06-23 Tuija Sonkkila English
Using rotl to create phylogenetic trees rotl 2021-06-12 Denise English
Using tabulizer to extract tabular data from daily COVID-19 reports tabulizer 2021-06-07 Steffi LaZerte English
Most tweeted words each month: a year snapshot rtweet 2021-05-17 Soraya Campbell English
Easily analyzing tweets using rtweet rtweet 2021-05-12 Amit Arora English
Scraping Google Play Reviews with RSelenium RSelenium 2021-05-11 jlaw English
Using RSelenium to scrape a paginated HTML table RSelenium 2021-04-12 Guillaume Pressiat English
Teaching an introduction to workflow management using drake drake 2021-03-25 Matt English
Using terrainr to retrieve spatial data and make 3D landscape visualizations terrainr 2021-03-01 Michael Mahoney English
Mapping collaborations in Neotropical Taxonomy with refsplitr refsplitr 2021-02-06 Emilio M Bruna English
Use gert to scan all git repos in a directory gert 2021-02-01 Danielle Navarro English
pdftools for extracting complex (e.g. text-wrapped/multiline) tables from pdfs pdftools 2021-01-26 Lizlaw English
Shiny apps to search #rstudioglobal or #rstats tweets with rtweet rtweet 2021-01-25 Sharon Machlis English
Using dittodb to test database queries dittodb 2021-01-25 Gordon Shotwell English
Getting and plotting weather and climate data weathercan 2021-01-21 Alex Koiter English
Using ghql to analyze all my 2020 GitHub commits ghql 2021-01-16 Frie English
Scraping liked posts on Twitter using rtweet rtweet 2021-01-03 Isabella Velásquez English
Using av to convert audio files for compatibility with an electronic storyteller av 2020-12-10 Maëlle Salmon English
Handling vegetation-plot information using vegtable and taxlist taxlist 2020-11-21 Miguel Alvarez English
Use stplanr to find and plot major streets of a city stplanr package 2020-11-18 Alexandra English
osmdata, rnaturalearth and magick for #TidyTuesday osmdata, rnaturalearth, magick 2020-11-06 Jake Kaupp English
osmdata: Rail transport network of the three largest cities in Spain osmdata 2020-10-27 Guillem Salazar English
A Twitter bot with rtweet, Mapbox and GitHub Actions rtweet 2020-09-25 Matt Dray English
Kontarion - a stack extending rocker/ml-verse for Bibliometric analytics oai, rentrez, fulltext, europepmc, refsplitr, rcrossref, citecorp, roadoi 2020-09-15 Markus Skyttner English
Mapping scientific collaboration about the Anthropoce with refsplitr refsplitr 2020-09-15 Emilio M Bruna English
Processing Web of Science records with refsplitr to study author gender and geography Package refsplitr 2020-09-15 Emilio M Bruna English
covidpreprints.com using europepmc and rAltmetric europepmc, rAltmetric 2020-09-08 Zhanghe Goh English
Bar chart portraits with magick magick 2020-08-23 Georgios Karamanis English
Basic manipulation of GIF frames with magick magick 2020-08-13 Kenneth Tay English
Spanish and English blogs on how to use rtweet and magick rtweet, magick 2020-08-01 Rayna Harris English
Creating a self-updating GitHub README using rtweet and GitHub Actions rtweet 2020-07-21 Zhi Yang, PhD English
Extraindo tabelas de documentos pdf em R com Tabulizer Tabulizer 2020-07-20 Pedro Rocha English
Filtering pdfs using RegEx in their body pdftools 2020-06-25 Augustus Pendleton English
Using qualtRics to study the effect of COVID-19 on scientists qualtRics 2020-06-21 Wei Yang Tham English
Using DataPackageR to create data package Pandemic Papers with Chris Knox DataPackageR 2020-06-17 Steffi LaZerte English
Testing an API wrapper with webmockr and vcr webmockr, vcr, HTTP testing book 2020-06-09 Dave Parr English
US lawmakers on Twitter during a pandemic: some corpus linguistics methods rtweet 2020-06-09 Jason Timm English
Create a time-lapse video using av package av 2020-06-08 Iván Mauricio Cely Toro English
Scrape an image from DeepZoom with R and magick, recomposing a single image from multiple tiles magick 2020-06-08 André Ourednik English
Detecting the Effects of Sustained Glacier Wastage on Streamflow in Variably Glacierized Catchments (Using tidyhydat) tidyhydat 2020-05-25 Sam Albers English
Using {drake} for machine learning drake 2020-05-22 Edwin Thoen English
bomrang with a third party package, stationaRy, to get hourly weather data and clifro to plot wind roses bomrang, clifro 2020-05-17 Adam Sparks English
Package for downloading shapefiles using piggyback piggyback 2020-05-11 Isabella Velásquez English
Visualize covid19 cases using rnaturalearth package rnaturalearth 2020-05-05 Rami Krispin English
{drake} at Queensland Fire and Emergency Services drake 2020-05-04 Miles McBain English
Using taxadb to query taxonomic information in ecology projects taxadb 2020-04-27 Gavin Masterson English
Animated generative art with magick magick 2020-04-21 Peter Solymos English
Use of crul's retry sub-routine in an API package crul 2020-04-16 Maëlle Salmon English
{Magick}ally Visualize Historical Google Maps Traffic Data magick 2020-04-10 Emmanuel Olamijuwon English
pdftools for parsing tables from many .pdfs pdftools 2020-03-31 Tom Mock English
Searching Microsoft Academic & extracting the metadata microdemic 2020-03-27 Alexei Lutay English
pdftools for parsing .pdf from a URL - public data mining pdftools 2020-02-15 Leungi English
osmdata use case: Wall Art osmdata 2020-02-06 mark padgham English
tabulizer for parsing block-text from .pdf tabulizer 2020-02-01 Leungi English
Accessing, wrangling and plotting global weather data (for free!) rnoaa, lawn 2020-01-30 Jasper Slingsby English
mapping the location of biogeography researchers with `refsplitr` refsplitr 2020-01-28 Emilio M Bruna English
Batch image manipulation using magick magick 2019-11-26 Rory Spanton English
Analyzing invoice data from Elsevier relative to hybrid open access rcrossref, crminer, tabulizer 2019-11-25 Najko Jahn English
ERDDAP servers use case: tidync and rerddap rerddap, tidync 2019-11-07 Uryu Shinya English
Reproducible CV using rorcid rorcid 2019-11-02 Christopher J Lortie English
tidyhydat and weathercan webinar tidyhydat, weathercan, hydrology task view 2019-10-29 Sam Albers 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 Sam Abbott English
Can {drake} RAP? Promoting {drake} for pipeline management in UK government drake 2019-10-02 Matt Dray English
drake use case involving fires! drake 2019-09-27 Amanda Dobbyn English
Use rnaturalearth to get a background map in sf format for plotting with ggplot rnaturalearth 2019-09-10 arvi1000 English
Converting MedDRA Terminology to Linked Data using rdflib rdflib 2019-09-06 Tim Williams English
Using pdftools, tabulizer, and writexl to simplify business information handling workflow pdftools, tabulizer, writexl 2019-08-27 David Hood English
Using rorcid to generate a website CV rorcid: GitHub - ropensci-archive/rorcid: ⚠ ARCHIVED A programmatic interface the Orcid.org API 2019-08-20 Noam Ross English
Use of R package review guidelines in independent manuscript review rOpenSci package development guide book 2019-08-08 Stefanie Butland English
Teaching how to create high quality R packages rOpenSci package development guide book 2019-08-05 Tiffany A. Timbers English
Promoting R and rOpenSci packages in UK local government ropenaq 2019-07-17 Henry Partridge English
Querying linked data to improve public services ghql 2019-07-17 Henry Partridge English
Using fingertipsR for public health data in UK local government fingertipsR 2019-07-17 Stefanie Butland English
Using bomrang to correlate weather conditions to sorghum stalk rot (charcoal rot) bomrang 2019-07-01 Adam Sparks English
get_clean_obs R Function (searching, pulling and cleaning citizen science records from iNaturalist and GBIF) spocc, rgbif 2019-06-06 Keatonwilson English
osmdata use case: Bicycle network analysis of Auckland osmdata 2019-05-30 Kim Fitter English
Using bib2df to parse the R Journal archives bib2df 2019-05-29 Maëlle Salmon English
rcrossref for #TidyTuesday rcrossref 2019-05-17 Jake Kaupp English
Can rainfall be a useful predictor of epidemic risk across temporal and... nasapower 2019-05-10 Emerson M Del Ponte English
Using drake to power a new soil respiration database drake 2019-05-04 Ben Bond Lamberty English
qualtRics: the Stack Overflow Developer Survey qualtRics 2019-05-01 Julia Silge English
Get tweet status ID from CrossRef Event Data with crevents crevents 2019-04-12 Tuija Sonkkila English
rgbif: get a little or a *lot* of occurrence data rgbif 2019-04-02 Stefanie Butland English
taxize: Understanding how seafood mislabelling misrepresents the conservation status of the fish on your plate taxize 2019-03-29 Stefanie Butland English
rBiodiversidata rredlist, taxize 2019-03-28 Flo English
weathercan: Exploring extreme weather events in my neighbourhood weathercan 2019-03-27 Steph Hazlitt English
Linking phylogenetic and geographic data using rotl and rgbif rotl, rgbif 2019-03-22 Emily Jane Mc Tavish English