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Help Wanted

If you were looking for issues where your expertise is needed, search no more! This list features issues for rOpenSci packages specifically labelled as “Help wanted” (meaning the package developer is actively soliciting help).

Always comment on an issue before tackling it to ensure the maintainer is still hoping for a contribution, and that no one else is already working on it.

If you’re just getting started with making contributions, check out the issues labelled “Good first issue”, as a way to ease into the process. Remember that not all issues require code contributions, sometimes it’s documentation, use cases, vignettes, etc.

See also our contributing guide for finding other ways to contribute to rOpenSci.

Robin Lovelace

Opened on 2019-10-24.

Add checks for interval type Good First Issue!

Steffi LaZerte

Opened on 2025-03-03.

Issue Package Date Opened Issue Author Good First Issue?
[BUG] oe_match does not properly match the correct OSM extract osmextract 2023-08-21 Eugene Hickey no
Spatial packages update MODIStsp 2023-09-05 Maëlle Salmon no
How to download all genomes that belong to a specific taxa? biomartr 2021-01-28 Johannes Werner no
Python port stats19 2023-11-05 Robin Lovelace no
Support options for ajv jsonvalidate 2023-11-07 Alex Axthelm no
Cpp optimisation - passing by reference, using const, avoiding Rcpp functions in cpp code parzer 2022-10-18 Alban Sagouis no
New Maintainer Welcome :-) historydata 2024-02-01 Maëlle Salmon no
New Maintainer Welcome :-) internetarchive 2024-02-01 Maëlle Salmon no
New Maintainer Welcome :-) USAboundaries 2024-02-01 Maëlle Salmon no
New Maintainer Welcome :-) USAboundariesData 2024-02-01 Maëlle Salmon no
Import RDES format tidyqpcr 2022-10-30 Ramiro Magno no
Check the suitability of the vignette colour scheme for accessibility tidyqpcr 2021-09-30 Samuel Joseph Haynes no
Documentation still needs to be done for fetch_survey() date-time feature update in #263 qualtRics 2022-06-20 Joseph O'Brien no
Develop documentation on how to use sjlabelled qualtRics 2022-11-11 Julia Silge no
Intro: how to generate API token qualtRics 2022-11-18 no
Question/ comment about the documentation qualtRics 2024-04-14 no
New Maintainer Wanted :-) hddtools 2024-11-19 Maëlle Salmon no
Automate release and version updates mapmetadata 2024-11-26 Rachael Stickland no
Improve package plots! mapmetadata 2024-12-06 Rachael Stickland no
Review vignettes weathercan 2025-02-03 Steffi LaZerte yes
New Maintainer Wanted :-) photosearcher 2025-02-07 Maëlle Salmon no
Set repository_meta = "local" by default? targets 2025-02-07 Will Landau no
[ideas] Set storage = "worker" and retrieval = "worker" by default targets 2025-02-07 Will Landau no
Enable numeric responses with value labels from fetch_survey() qualtRics 2025-02-13 Jacob Dennen no
Avoid use of 1:nrow (etc.) in loops weathercan 2025-03-03 Steffi LaZerte yes
Add checks for interval type weathercan 2025-03-03 Steffi LaZerte yes
Remaining superseded dplyr functions weathercan 2025-02-05 Steffi LaZerte no
Normals checks and errors weathercan 2025-02-04 Steffi LaZerte yes
Route network vignette stplanr 2019-07-01 Robin Lovelace yes
Function that returns junction points stplanr 2019-10-24 Robin Lovelace yes
Rename rnet_merge as rnet_merge_sum and add settings to reproduce NPT results stplanr 2025-01-02 Robin Lovelace yes
Actions failing stplanr 2024-08-22 Robin Lovelace yes
Additional test coverage weathercan 2025-02-05 Steffi LaZerte yes

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