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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.

Route network vignette Good First Issue!

Robin Lovelace

Opened on 2019-07-01.

Documentation still needs to be done for fetch_survey() date-time feature update in #263

Joseph O'Brien

Opened on 2022-06-20.

Add checks for interval type Good First Issue!

Steffi LaZerte

Opened on 2025-03-03.

IssuePackageDate OpenedIssue AuthorGood First Issue?
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
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
Relay informative errors to app usersgtexr2024-06-10Alasdair Warwickno
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
Automate release and version updatesmapmetadata2024-11-26Rachael Sticklandno
Improve package plots!mapmetadata2024-12-06Rachael Sticklandno
Discontinue the use of the iris datasetdataset2025-01-21Daniel Antalno
Review vignettesweathercan2025-02-03Steffi LaZerteyes
Enable numeric responses with value labels from fetch_survey()qualtRics2025-02-13Jacob Dennenno
Avoid use of 1:nrow (etc.) in loopsweathercan2025-03-03Steffi LaZerteyes
Add checks for interval typeweathercan2025-03-03Steffi LaZerteyes
Remaining superseded dplyr functionsweathercan2025-02-05Steffi LaZerteno
Normals checks and errorsweathercan2025-02-04Steffi LaZerteyes
Route network vignettestplanr2019-07-01Robin Lovelaceyes
Function that returns junction pointsstplanr2019-10-24Robin Lovelaceyes
Rename rnet_merge as rnet_merge_sum and add settings to reproduce NPT resultsstplanr2025-01-02Robin Lovelaceyes
Actions failingstplanr2024-08-22Robin Lovelaceyes
Additional test coverageweathercan2025-02-05Steffi LaZerteyes
Add option to change encoding assumed for input strings (UTF-8)bib2df2020-08-07Nils Reimerno
New maintainer(s)rentrez2025-06-12David Winterno
Introduce CKAN versions to support CKAN API changesckanr2024-05-29Florian Mayerno
Add comparison to official for jdxlightr2020-02-13Hugo Grusonno

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