rOpenSci Packages: Development, Maintenance, and Peer Review
Guide for package authors, maintainers, reviewers and editors in rOpenSci software peer-review system. This book is a guide for authors, maintainers, reviewers and editors of rOpenSci. The first section of the book contains our guidelines for creating and testing R packages. The second section is dedicated to rOpenSci’s software peer review process: what it is, our policies, and specific guides for authors, editors and reviewers throughout the process. The third and last section features our best practice for nurturing your package once it has been onboarded: how to collaborate with other developers, how to document releases, how to promote your package and how to leverage GitHub as a development platform. The third section also features a chapter for anyone wishing to start contributing to rOpenSci packages.
rOpenSci Dev Guide
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. Refer to its Zenodo DOI to cite it.
@software{ropensci_2024_10797633,
author = {rOpenSci and
Anderson, Brooke and
Chamberlain, Scott and
DeCicco, Laura and
Gustavsen, Julia and
Krystalli, Anna and
Lepore, Mauro and
Mullen, Lincoln and
Ram, Karthik and
Ross, Noam and
Salmon, Maëlle and
Vidoni, Melina and
Riederer, Emily and
Sparks, Adam and
Hollister, Jeff},
title = {{rOpenSci Packages: Development, Maintenance, and
Peer Review}},
month = mar,
year = 2024,
publisher = {Zenodo},
version = {0.9.0},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.10797633},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10797633}
}
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