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Onboarding

We accept community contributed packages via our onboarding system - a software review system, sorta like scholarly paper review, but way better. We’ll highlight new packages here that have come through this system. A huge thanks to our reviewers, who do a lot of work reviewing (see the blog post on our review system), and the authors of the packages!

If you want to be a reviewer we have a new form you can fill out, and we’ll ping you when there’s a submission that fits in your area of expertise.

There haven’t been any submissions or approved packages since last news - it’s a good time to submit your package! At least ask questions if you’re not sure how it works, or if your package is a good fit.



On the blog

Onboarding series

We’re doing a series of guest blog posts for packages that have gone through our software review process at ropensci/onboarding.

The 7th post came out last week, by Thomas Leeper on his package tabulizer - Release ‘open’ data from their PDF prisons using tabulizer.

The 6th post came out almost two week’s ago, by Tony Fischetti on his package assertr - Data validation with the assertr package.

5th: Adam Sparks on his package GSODR - Everybody talks about the weather.

4th: Lukas Lundstrom on his package camsRad - camsRad, satellite-based time series of solar irradiation.

3rd: Claudia Vitolo on her package hddtools - Discover hydrological data using the hddtools R package.

2nd: Maëlle Salmon on her package ropenaq - ropenaq, a breath of fresh air/R.

1st: Sean Hughes on his package plater - From a million nested ifelses to the plater package.

We’ll have more posts in this series coming out soon - keep an eye out.



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One blog post and two papers use/cite rOpenSci packages:






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Footnotes

  1. Salmon, M. 2017. Mapping waxwings annual migration without Twitter. http://www.masalmon.eu/2017/04/08/spocc/ 

  2. Malcolm F. Rosenthal, Matthew Gertler, Angela D. Hamilton, Sonal Prasad, Maydianne C.B. Andrade, Taxonomic bias in animal behaviour publications. Animal Behaviour, Volume 127, 2017, pgs. 83-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.02.017 

  3. Aedo, C., & Pando, F. (2017). A distribution and taxonomic reference dataset of Geranium in the New World. Scientific Data, 4, 170049. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.49