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Stefanie Butland

### rOpenSci HQ

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 repository](https://github.com/ropensci-org/community-calls).

- Videos, speaker's slides, resources and collaborative notes from our
 Community Call on [Reproducible Workflows at Scale with
 drake](/commcalls/2019-09-24/) are posted.

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 get more contributors to your package. If you label an issue "help
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### Software Peer Review

3 community-contributed packages passed [software peer
review](/software-review/).

**[c14bazAAR](https://github.com/ISAAKiel/c14bazAAR)** - Download and
Prepare C14 Dates from Different Source Databases. Author: [Clemens
Schmid](https://github.com/nevrome); Reviewers: [Ben
Marwick](https://github.com/benmarwick), [Enrico
Crema](https://github.com/ercrema); Read the
[Review](https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/333)

**[rmangal](https://docs.ropensci.org/rmangal/)** - An interface to the
Mangal database <https://mangal.io/#/>. Author: [Steve
Vissault](https://github.com/SteveViss); Reviewers: [Thomas
Pedersen](https://github.com/thomasp85), [Anna
Willoughby](https://github.com/arw36); Read the
[Review](https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/332)

**[rnassqs](https://docs.ropensci.org/rnassqs/)** - Access the NASS
Quick Stats API. Author: [Nicholas
Potter](https://github.com/potterzot); Reviewers: [Adam
Sparks](https://github.com/adamhsparks), [Neal
Richardson](https://github.com/nealrichardson); Read the
[Review](https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/297)

*Consider [submitting your
package](https://devguide.ropensci.org/softwarereviewintro.html) or
[volunteering to
review](https://devguide.ropensci.org/softwarereviewintro.html#whyreview).*

### Software

5 new packages from the community are on CRAN.

- [cde](https://docs.ropensci.org/cde/) - download data from the
 Catchment Data Explorer
- [chlorpromazineR](https://docs.ropensci.org/chlorpromazineR/) -
 convert antipsychotic doses to chlorpromazine equivalents
- [citecorp](https://docs.ropensci.org/citecorp/) - client for the Open
 Citations Corpus
- [PostcodesioR](https://docs.ropensci.org/PostcodesioR/) - API wrapper
 for Postcodes.io
- [rmangal](https://ropensci.github.io/rmangal/) - interface to the
 Mangal database of ecological networks

### On the Blog

#### From the rOpenSci team

- [citecorp: working with open
 citations](/technotes/2019/09/17/citecorp/) Tech Note - [Scott
 Chamberlain](/authors/scott-chamberlain/)
- [Updates to the rOpenSci image suite: magick, tesseract, and
 av](/technotes/2019/09/27/ropensci-docs/) Tech Note - [Jeroen
 Ooms](/authors/jeroen-ooms)
- [rOpenSci Dev Guide 0.3.0:
 Updates](/blog/2019/10/08/dev-guide-update-fall19/) - rOpenSci
 Software Peer Review Editors
- [cran checks API: an
 update](/technotes/2019/10/09/cran-checks-api-update/) Tech Note -
 [Scott Chamberlain](/authors/scott-chamberlain/)
- [2 Months in 2 Minutes - rOpenSci News, August
 2019](/blog/2019/08/15/news-aug2019/) - [Stefanie
 Butland](/authors/stefanie-butland)

#### From the community

- [Introducing Open Forensic Science in
 R](/blog/2019/08/20/forensic-science/) -- [Sam
 Tyner](/authors/sam-tyner)
- [UCSCXenaTools: Retrieve Gene Expression and Clinical Information from
 UCSC Xena for Survival
 Analysis](/technotes/2019/09/06/ucscxenatools-surv/) -- [Shixiang
 Wang](/authors/shixiang-wang)
- [Using rOpenSci Software Peer Review Guidelines for
 Teaching](/blog/2019/08/27/software-peer-review-guidelines-for-teaching/)
 -- [Tiffany Timbers](/authors/tiffany-timbers)

<figure>
<img src="/img/blog-images/2019-10-17-news-oct2019/forensic.png"
width="600"
alt="From Introducing Open Forensic Science in R. Were these bullets fired by the same gun? Top: Images of partial bullet scans. Bottom left: representative cross-sections from two bullets with 6 lands each. Bottom right: resulting smoothed bullet signatures and raw signatures." />
<figcaption aria-hidden="true">From <a
href="/blog/2019/08/20/forensic-science/">Introducing Open Forensic
Science in R</a>. Were these bullets fired by the same gun? Top: Images
of partial bullet scans. Bottom left: representative cross-sections from
two bullets with 6 lands each. Bottom right: resulting smoothed bullet
signatures and raw signatures.</figcaption>
</figure>

### Use Cases

- 84 published works cited or used rOpenSci software (listed in
 individual newsletters)
- 7 use cases for our packages or resources were posted in our
 [discussion forum](https://discuss.ropensci.org/c/usecases) Look for
 pdftools, tabulizer, writexl, rorcid, rnaturalearth, rdflib, drake,
 and tic.

*Have you used an rOpenSci package? [Share your use
case](https://discuss.ropensci.org/c/usecases) and we'll tweet about
it.*

### Call For Contributors

Part of rOpenSci's mission is to make sustainable software. When a
package needs a new maintainer, we work to find a new one. The current
maintainer of [mregions](https://github.com/ropensci/mregions), Scott
Chamberlain, is looking for a new maintainer. [Contact Scott](/contact/)
if you're interested.

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rOpenSci HQ What would

 you

like to hear about in an rOpenSci Community Call? We are soliciting your “votes” and new ideas for Community Call topics and speakers. Find out how you can influence us by checking out our new Community Calls repository. Videos, speaker’s slides, resources and collaborative notes from our Community Call on Reproducible Workflows at Scale with drake are posted. Help wanted!

Publicaciones de Rogue Scholar

2 Months in 2 Minutes - rOpenSci News, October 2019