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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.

Issue Package Date Opened Issue Author Good First Issue?
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
Relay informative errors to app users gtexr 2024-06-10 Alasdair Warwick 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
Automate release and version updates mapmetadata 2024-11-26 Rachael Stickland no
Improve package plots! mapmetadata 2024-12-06 Rachael Stickland no
Discontinue the use of the iris dataset dataset 2025-01-21 Daniel Antal no
Review vignettes weathercan 2025-02-03 Steffi LaZerte yes
Enable numeric responses with value labels from fetch_survey() qualtRics 2025-02-13 Jacob Dennen no
Remaining superseded dplyr functions weathercan 2025-02-05 Steffi LaZerte no
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
Add option to change encoding assumed for input strings (UTF-8) bib2df 2020-08-07 Nils Reimer no
New maintainer(s) rentrez 2025-06-12 David Winter no
Add comparison to official for jdx lightr 2020-02-13 Hugo Gruson no
Format(s) of the ckan_package S3 object ckanr 2019-05-15 Val. Lucet no
Add extant_only option to functions worrms 2025-12-10 Lewis A. Jones no
New Maintainer Wanted :-) qualtRics 2025-12-12 Maëlle Salmon no
[improvement] extract and visualise rhythms at the random-effect level GLMMcosinor 2025-07-17 Rex Parsons no
New Maintainer Wanted :-) NLMR 2026-02-02 Maëlle Salmon no
New Maintainer Wanted :-) landscapetools 2026-02-02 Maëlle Salmon no

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