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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.

IssuePackageDate OpenedIssue AuthorGood First Issue?
[BUG] oe_match does not properly match the correct OSM extractosmextract2023-08-21Eugene Hickeyno
Spatial packages updateMODIStsp2023-09-05Maëlle Salmonno
How to download all genomes that belong to a specific taxa?biomartr2021-01-28Johannes Wernerno
Python portstats192023-11-05Robin Lovelaceno
Support options for ajvjsonvalidate2023-11-07Alex Axthelmno
Cpp optimisation - passing by reference, using const, avoiding Rcpp functions in cpp codeparzer2022-10-18Alban Sagouisno
New Maintainer Welcome :-)historydata2024-02-01Maëlle Salmonno
New Maintainer Welcome :-)internetarchive2024-02-01Maëlle Salmonno
New Maintainer Welcome :-)USAboundaries2024-02-01Maëlle Salmonno
New Maintainer Welcome :-)USAboundariesData2024-02-01Maëlle Salmonno
Import RDES formattidyqpcr2022-10-30Ramiro Magnono
Check the suitability of the vignette colour scheme for accessibilitytidyqpcr2021-09-30Samuel Joseph Haynesno
Documentation still needs to be done for fetch_survey() date-time feature update in #263qualtRics2022-06-20Joseph O'Brienno
Develop documentation on how to use sjlabelledqualtRics2022-11-11Julia Silgeno
Intro: how to generate API tokenqualtRics2022-11-18no
Question/ comment about the documentationqualtRics2024-04-14no
New Maintainer Wanted :-)hddtools2024-11-19Maëlle Salmonno
Review vignettesweathercan2025-02-03Steffi LaZerteno
New Maintainer Wanted :-)photosearcher2025-02-07Maëlle Salmonno
Set repository_meta = "local" by default?targets2025-02-07Will Landauno
[ideas] Set storage = "worker" and retrieval = "worker" by defaulttargets2025-02-07Will Landauno
Enable numeric responses with value labels from fetch_survey()qualtRics2025-02-13Jacob Dennenno

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