Semi-monthly summary of the rOpenSci Newsletter, October 2020

• newsletter
• citecorp
• dittodb
• europepmc
• fulltext
• magick
• mapscanner
• mcbette
• medrxivr
• namext
• oai
• rAltmetric
• rbace
• rcrossref
• refsplitr
• rentrez
• rgnparser
• rtweet
• treedata.table
• roadoi

rOpenSci's europepmc and rAltmetric packages are used to auto-update the covidpreprints.com daily.

• community
• open-science
• preprint
• scholarly-literature
• altmetrics
• europepmc
• rAltmetric

How to find and contribute to help wanted issues in rOpenSci packages

• hacktoberfest
• community

The mapscanner package enables lines drawn by hand on maps to be converted to spatial objects

• Software Peer Review
• packages
• mapscanner
• spatial
• maps
• survey

A look at treedata.table, a package for working efficiently with phylogenetic trees and data

• Software Peer Review
• packages
• phylogenetics
• comparative
• biology
• workshops
• treedata.table
• community