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+title: 2 Months in 2 Minutes - rOpenSci News, October 2020
+author:
+  - Stefanie Butland
+date: '2020-10-15'
+slug: news-oct2020
+tags:
+  - newsletter
+  - r
+  - citecorp
+  - dittodb
+  - europepmc
+  - fulltext  
+  - magick
+  - mapscanner
+  - mcbette
+  - medrxivr
+  - namext
+  - oai
+  - rAltmetric
+  - rbace
+  - rcrossref
+  - refsplitr
+  - rentrez
+  - rgnparser
+  - rtweet
+  - treedata.table
+  - roadoi
+description: Semi-monthly summary of the rOpenSci Newsletter, October 2020
+preface: "A semi-monthly summary of the [rOpenSci Newsletter](https://news.ropensci.org/) including software reviews, packages on CRAN, use cases, posts from staff and community, and events. September 1 to October 12, 2020"
+---
+
+## 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/).
+
+<!---- alphabetical order
+---->
+
+* **[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 src="hex-medrxivr.png" width="150" alt="hex logo of R package medrxivr" >}}
+
+* **[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 src="hex-treedata.table.png" width="150" alt="hex logo of R package treedata.table" >}}
+
+_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._
+
+
+<!---- ## From the Forum
+
+_We have a discussion forum (using Discourse) for the rOpenSci community. It’s a really nice way to have conversations on the internet. From time to time we’ll highlight recent discussions of interest._
+
+* Peter Desmet asked a question that many R package maintainers run in to: [What if raw data in package is too large?](https://discuss.ropensci.org/t/what-if-raw-data-in-package-is-too-large/1955)
+---->
+
+
+## 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.
+
+
+<!---- ## Get involved with rOpenSci
+
+We maintain a [Contributing Guide](https://contributing.ropensci.org/) to help you recognize yourself as a potential contributor. (You don't have to be a developer!) 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 our mission; and connect you with resources to help you along the way.
+---->
+
+## 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://contributing.ropensci.org/) to rOpenSci as a user or developer.