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Handle the FORCIS foraminifera database. Contribute to ropensci/forcis development by creating an account on GitHub.

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A foraminifera data-access package whose entire release history is the rOpenSci review process.

data-accessr-packageropenscioceanographyopen-data
◆Current state
forcis provides R access to the FORCIS database of planktonic foraminifera occurrences. All three releases in the window are review milestones rather than feature work: first stable release, the release answering rOpenSci reviewer comments, and a post-CRAN-review polish. Release notes point at NEWS.md rather than enumerating changes.
◆Where it's heading
The package is moving from research artifact to reviewed, distributable infrastructure — submitted to rOpenSci at 0.1.0, integrated review feedback at 1.0.0, cleared CRAN at 1.0.1. That arc is complete, so the next phase should be the first release driven by users rather than reviewers.
◆Prediction
With review and CRAN acceptance both behind it, the next release is most likely to track upstream FORCIS database changes or add query conveniences; the entries themselves say nothing about planned features.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1y ago

    Post-CRAN-review example and practice cleanup

    The last step of the distribution arc: examples and coding practices adjusted to satisfy CRAN reviewers. The release notes defer to NEWS.md and describe no user-facing change.

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  2. 1y ago

    1.0.0 incorporates rOpenSci review feedback

    The version number marks the package as stable after peer review, which is the substance of this release. The note gives no detail on what reviewers changed, so the practical impact has to be read from NEWS.md.

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  3. 1y ago

    First stable release, submitted to rOpenSci

    The package becomes publicly usable and simultaneously enters review — the point the arc described above starts from.

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