<p>Following up on Stefanie's recap of <a href="https://ropensci.org/blog/">unconf 17</a>, we are following up this entire week with summaries of projects developed at the event. We plan to highlight 4-5 projects each day, with detailed posts from a handful of teams to follow.</p>
<h2><code>skimr</code></h2>
<p><strong>Summary:</strong> <code>skimr</code>, a package inspired by Hadley Wickham's <a href="https://github.com/hadley/precis">precis package</a>, aims to provide summary statistics iteratively and interactively as part of a pipeline. The package provides easily skimmable summary statistics to help you better understand your data and see what is missing.</p>
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<p><strong>Team:</strong><br>
Amelia McNamara, Eduardo Arino de la Rubia, Hao Zhu, Julia Lowndes, Shannon Ellis, Elin Waring, Michael Quinn, Hope McLeod </p>
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<p><strong>Github:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/ropenscilabs/skimr">https://github.com/ropenscilabs/skimr</a></p>
<h2><code>emldown</code></h2>
<p><strong>Summary:</strong> <code>emldown</code> is a package for creating a helpful website based on EML metadata. Ecological Metadata Language (EML) is a metadata specification developed by the ecology discipline and for the ecology discipline. EML is implemented as a series of XML document types that can by used in a modular and extensible manner to document ecological data.</p>
<p><strong>Team:</strong> Maëlle Salmon, Kara Woo, Andrew McDonald, Carl Boettiger</p>
<p><strong>Github:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/ropenscilabs/emldown">https://github.com/ropenscilabs/emldown</a></p>
<h2><code>testrmd</code></h2>
<p><strong>Summary:</strong> <code>testrmd</code> provides facilities to enable testing of and reporting on tested R Markdown chunks. When running R Markdown documents as part of a workflow where the data are likely to change with each render, <code>testrmd</code> ensures that each chunk will alert the reader to any problems that may arise as a result of such subtle changes in data.</p>
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<p><strong>Team:</strong> Mara Averick, Christopher Tull, Joe Cheng, Robert Flight</p>
<p><strong>Github:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/ropenscilabs/testrmd">https://github.com/ropenscilabs/testrmd</a></p>
<h2><code>webrockets</code></h2>
<p><strong>Summary:</strong> The <code>webrockets</code> package implements a basic websocket listener in R. The implementation draws heavily on <a href="https://twitter.com/hrbmstr">@hrbmstr's</a> wrapper of <code>easywsclient</code> in <a href="https://github.com/ropenscilabs/decapitated">https://github.com/ropenscilabs/decapitated</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Team:</strong> </p>
<p>Miles McBain, Alicia Schep, Carl Ganz, Bob Rudis, Henrik Bengtsson, Joe Cheng </p>
<p><strong>Github:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/ropenscilabs/webrockets">https://github.com/ropenscilabs/webrockets</a></p>