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We’re thrilled to announce three new rOpenSci Software Review Editors: Laura DeCicco, Julia Gustavsen, and Mauro Lepore and we released the fifth version (v0.5) of the rOpenSci Developer Guide.

Our Community Call on The Wild World of Data Repositories took place Dec 16 with an audience of 153 people! The video will be posted, along with collaborative notes and resources, by Dec 21.

Software Peer Review

2 community-contributed packages passed software peer review.

• phonfieldwork – Linguistic Phonetic Fieldwork Tools. Author: George Moroz; Reviewers: Jonathan Keane, Niko Partanen; Read the Review

• SymbiotaR2 – Downloading data from Symbiota2 portals into R. Author: Austin Koontz; Reviewers: Ben Bond-Lamberty, Scott Chamberlain; Read the Review

6 packages have been submitted for review.

We will not be accepting new submissions during the period Dec 19-Jan 3, nor engaging in editorial activity on reviews underway. Happy Holidays!

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Software

7 new packages on CRAN.

• allcontributors – to acknowledge all contributors in your ‘README’ (or elsewhere). Author: Mark Padgham

• BaseSet – working with sets the tidy way. Author: Lluís Revilla Sancho

• dataspice – create lightweight Schema.org descriptions of data. Author: Bryce Mecum

• mcbette – model comparison using babette. Author: Richèl J.C. Bilderbeek

• outsider – Install and Run Programs, Outside of R, Inside of R. Author: Dom Bennett

• rgnparser – parse scientific names using the Go tool gnparser. Author: Scott Chamberlain

• taxlist – handling taxonomic lists. Author: Miguel Alvarez

On the Blog

From the community

• Covidpreprints.com: Automating Website Updates with the europepmc and rAltmetric Packages by Zhang-He Goh, Jonny Coates, and Hugo Gruson

• Searching medRxiv and bioRxiv Preprint Data by Luke McGuinness

• Using Open-Access Tools (rentrez, taxize) to Find Coronaviruses, Their Genetic Sequences, and Their Hosts by Liam Brierley

• Selecting the Best Phylogenetic Evolutionary Model by Richèl J.C. Bilderbeek

• Accessing GrahpQL from R by Dennis Irorere and Scott Chamberlain

From the rOpenSci team

• fulltext: Behind the Scenes Tech note by Scott Chamberlain

• Moving away from Travis CI Tech note by Jeroen Ooms

• Installing V8 is now even easier Tech note by Jeroen Ooms

• 2 Months in 2 Minutes – rOpenSci News, October 2020 by Stefanie Butland

Use Cases

• 63 published works cited or used rOpenSci software (listed in individual newsletters)

• 5 use cases for our packages or resources were posted in our discussion forum. Look for av, magick, osmdata, rnaturalearth, rtweet, stplanr, taxlist

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