rOpenSci

Stefanie Butland

## rOpenSci HQ

#### rOpenSci at R-Ladies

Our community manager Stefanie Butland, and one of our software review
editors Brooke Anderson, are speaking remotely at an [R-Ladies East
Lansing
meetup](https://www.meetup.com/rladies-east-lansing/events/272642612/)
Thursday, October 22nd. They will talk about our how to get involved in
rOpenSci using our new [Contributing
Guide](https://contributing.ropensci.org/) as an entry point, and
through participating in software review as a package author or
reviewer.

#### Contributing Guide Release

The purpose of our new [Contributing
Guide](https://contributing.ropensci.org/) is to welcome you to rOpenSci
and help you recognize yourself as a potential contributor. It will help
you figure out what you might gain by giving your time, expertise, and
experience; match your needs with things that will help rOpenSci's
mission; and connect you with resources to help you along the way.

## Software Peer Review

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

- **[mcbette](https://docs.ropensci.org/mcbette/)** - Model Comparison
  Using babette. Author: [Richel
  Bilderbeek](https://github.com/richelbilderbeek); Reviewers: [Vikram
  Baliga](https://github.com/vbaliga), [Joëlle
  Barido-Sottani](https://github.com/bjoelle); Read the
  [Review](https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/360)

- **[medrxivr](https://docs.ropensci.org/medrxivr/)** - Access and
  Search MedRxiv and BioRxiv Preprint Data. Author: [Luke
  McGuinness](https://github.com/mcguinlu); Reviewers: [Tuija
  Sonkkila](https://github.com/tts), [Najko
  Jahn](https://github.com/njahn82); Read the
  [Review](https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/380)

<figure>
<img src="hex-medrxivr.png" width="150"
alt="hex logo of R package medrxivr" />
</figure>

- **[treedata.table](https://docs.ropensci.org/treedata.table/)** - A
  Wrapper For data.table For Fast Manipulation Of Phylogenetic Trees
  Matched To Data. Author: [Josef Uyeda](https://github.com/uyedaj);
  Reviewers: [Hugo Gruson](https://github.com/Bisaloo), [Kari
  Norman](https://github.com/karinorman); Read the
  [Review](https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/367)

<figure>
<img src="hex-treedata.table.png" width="150"
alt="hex logo of R package treedata.table" />
</figure>

*Consider [submitting your
package](https://devguide.ropensci.org/softwarereviewintro.html) or
[volunteering to
review](https://devguide.ropensci.org/softwarereviewintro.html#whyreview).
If you want to be a reviewer fill out [this short
form](https://ropensci.org/onboarding/), and we'll ping you when there's
a submission that fits in your area of expertise.*

## Software

2 new peer-reviewed packages from the community are on CRAN.

- **[medrxivr](https://docs.ropensci.org/medrxivr/)** and
  **[treedata.table](https://docs.ropensci.org/treedata.table/)**
  recently passed peer review and are listed above.

1 new package from the rOpenSci team is on CRAN.

- **[rbace](https://docs.ropensci.org/rbace/)** - a client for
  interacting with the [Bielefeld Academic Search
  Engine](https://www.base-search.net/) API. Author: [Scott
  Chamberlain](https://github.com/sckott)

## On the Blog

#### From the community

- [The treedata.table Package](/blog/2020/09/22/treedata.table/) by
  [April Wright](/author/april-wright/), [Christian
  Román-Palacios](/author/cristian-rom%C3%A1n-palacios/), and [Josef
  Uyeda](/author/josef-uyeda/)

#### From the rOpenSci team

- [Rectifying Hand-Drawn Marks on Maps With the mapscanner
  Package](/blog/2020/09/29/mapscanner/) by [Mark
  Padgham](/author/mark-padgham/)

- [Scientific Name Parsing: rgnparser and
  namext](/technotes/2020/08/25/scientific-name-parsing/) Tech note by
  [Scott Chamberlain](/author/scott-chamberlain/)

- [Hacktober? Any Month is a Good Month to Contribute to
  rOpenSci](/blog/2020/10/06/hacktober2020/) by [Stefanie
  Butland](/author/stefanie-butland/)

- [2 Months in 2 Minutes - rOpenSci News, August
  2020](/blog/2020/08/20/news-aug2020/) by [Stefanie
  Butland](/author/stefanie-butland/)

## Use Cases

- 74 published works cited or used rOpenSci software (listed in
  individual newsletters)

- 6 use cases for our packages or resources were posted in our
  [discussion forum](https://discuss.ropensci.org/c/usecases). Look for
  **citecorp**, **europepmc**, **fulltext**, **magick**, **oai**,
  **rAltmetric**, **rcrossref**, **refsplitr**, **rentrez**, **rtweet**,
  **roadoi**

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

## In the News

- One of our software review editors, [Anna
  Krystalli](https://twitter.com/annakrystalli), was featured in the
  podcast RSE Stories, in an episode titled [R for
  Reproducibility](https://us-rse.org/rse-stories/2020/anna-krystalli/).

- The latest episode of the Changelog Podcast was [How open source saved
  htop](https://changelog.com/podcast/413). It may be of interest to
  readers of our newsletter as a vignette of how a project transitioned
  maintainers. The [original htop
  repository](https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/), and [the new
  one](https://github.com/htop-dev/htop).

## Call For Maintainers

Part of our mission is making sustainable software that users can rely
on. Sometimes software maintainers need to give up maintenance due to a
variety of circumstances. When that happens we try to find new
maintainers. Check out our guidance for [taking over maintenance of a
package](https://devguide.ropensci.org/changing-maintainers.html).

[**monkeylearn**](https://docs.ropensci.org/monkeylearn/) is in need of
a new maintainer. [Comment on this
thread](https://github.com/ropensci/monkeylearn/issues/142) if you're
interested.

## Keep up with rOpenSci

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rOpenSci HQ  rOpenSci at R-Ladies   Our community manager Stefanie Butland, and one of our software review editors Brooke Anderson, are speaking remotely at an R-Ladies East Lansing meetup Thursday, October 22nd. They will talk about our how to get involved in rOpenSci using our new Contributing Guide as an entry point, and through participating in software review as a package author or reviewer.

2 Months in 2 Minutes - rOpenSci News, October 2020

## rOpenSci HQ

Join our Community Manager [Stefanie Butland](/author/stefanie-butland/)
in a [CarpentryCon @ Home fireside chat on Growing Inclusive,
Computational Communities and
Leaders](https://2020.carpentrycon.org/schedule/#session-62). Live
90-min discussions Wed Aug 26 21h00 (2pm PDT) and Thu Aug 27 15h00 UTC
(8am PDT). Other panelists over the two sessions are Abigail Cabunoc
Mayes (Mozilla Foundation), Kate Hertweck (Fred Hutch Cancer Research
Center), Toby Hodges (The Carpentries), Angela Li (U Chicago), Marlene
Mhangami (Python Software Foundation), Naomi Penfold (eLife), and Serah
Rono (The Carpentries).
[Submit](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5bHp5nYG8XV1-WNQqZ_sm6h0T4G8Kp6M9biqbyRW1GrXNoA/viewform)
your questions for the panel before Aug 24.

## Software

2 new peer-reviewed packages from the community are on CRAN.

- **[chirps](https://docs.ropensci.org/chirps/)** - API Client for
  Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station Data.
  Author: [Kauê de Sousa](https://github.com/kauedesousa)

- **[dittodb](https://docs.ropensci.org/dittodb/)** - Makes testing
  against databases easy. Author: [Jonathan
  Keane](/author/jonathan-keane/)

## On the Blog

### From the community

- [Developing dittodb](/blog/2020/08/18/dev-dittodb/) by [Jonathan
  Keane](/author/jonathan-keane/)

- [OSF: A Project Management Service Built for
  Research](/blog/2020/08/04/osf/) by [Aaron
  Wolen](/author/aaron-wolen/)

- [Maintaining an R Package - Community Call
  Summary](/blog/2020/08/18/dev-dittodb/) by [Janani
  Ravi](/author/janani-ravi/) and [Steffi
  LaZerte](/author/steffi-lazerte/)

- [Community Captioning of rOpenSci Community
  Calls](/blog/2020/07/15/subtitles/) by [Matthias
  Grenié](/author/matthias-greni%C3%A9/) and [Hugo
  Gruson](/author/hugo-gruson/)

### From the rOpenSci team

- [CRAN Checks API News: Documentation, Notifications, and
  More](/technotes/2020/07/16/cran-checks-docs-notifications/) Tech note
  by [Scott Chamberlain](/author/scott-chamberlain/) and [Maëlle
  Salmon](/author/ma%C3%ABlle-salmon/)

- [A better way to manage your Github personal access
  tokens](/technotes/2020/07/07/github-pat/) Tech note by [Jeroen
  Ooms](/author/jeroen-ooms/)

- [2 Months in 2 Minutes - rOpenSci News, June
  2020](/blog/2020/06/18/news-jun2020/) by [Stefanie
  Butland](/author/stefanie-butland/)

## Use Cases

- 124 published works cited or used rOpenSci software (listed in
  individual newsletters)

- 11 use cases for our packages or resources were posted in our
  [discussion forum](https://discuss.ropensci.org/c/usecases) Look for
  **av**, **DataPackageR**, **magick**, **pdftools**, **qualtRics**,
  **rtweet**, **tabulizer**, **webmockr**, **vcr**

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

## Keep up with rOpenSci

We create a newsletter every two weeks. You can subscribe via rss feed
in [XML](https://news.ropensci.org/feed.xml) or
[JSON](https://news.ropensci.org/feed.json) or via our one-way [mailing
list](/#subscribe).

Follow [@rOpenSci](https://twitter.com/ropensci) on Twitter.

Find out how you can
[contribute](https://devguide.ropensci.org/contributingguide.html) to
rOpenSci as a user or developer.


rOpenSci HQ   Join our Community Manager Stefanie Butland in a CarpentryCon @ Home fireside chat on Growing Inclusive, Computational Communities and Leaders.

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2 Months in 2 Minutes - rOpenSci News, October 2020

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