rOpenSci Statistical Software Peer Review

Documentation of rOpenSci’s project on expanding software peer review to include statistical software.

Author

Mark Padgham and Noam Ross

1 Welcome

Welcome to rOpenSci’s system for peer-review of statistical software in R packages and beyond. This system extends our existing system for software peer review, through expanding the scope to include explicitly statistical software. As such, it is a direct extension of rOpenSci Packages: Development, Maintenance, and Peer Review. This book provides guidelines for authors on how to develop statistical software, and for editors and reviewers on our processes for peer review of statistical software.

You are invited to contribute to this project by participating in our GitHub Discussions, or filing suggestions as issues in the book’s GitHub repository. Feedback on standards is particularly welcome, for which the Discussions have dedicated pages for each category of standards.

For this project we are lucky to have support of a great advisory and editorial committee. The committee has helped us along with way with outreach to statistical communities, vetting community input and prioritizing our work.

Ben Bolker (@bolkerb) McMaster University, Canada
Rebecca Killick, Lancaster University, UK
Stephanie Hicks (@stephaniehicks), Johns Hopkins University, USA
Paula Moraga, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Leonardo Collado-Torres (@lcolladotor), Lieber Institute for Brain Development, USA
Toby Hocking, Northern Arizona University, USA

We are also grateful to former members of our advisory board:

Max Kuhn (@topepos), RStudio
Martin Morgan (@mt_morgan), Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

This work is supported by the Sloan Foundation and is organized under an R Consortium Working Group.

1.1 Citation

You can cite this book by its its Zenodo DOI, or by copying the following BibTeX entry:

@software{mark_padgham_2021_5556756,
  author       = {mark padgham and
                  Maëlle Salmon and
                  Noam Ross and
                  Jakub Nowosad and
                  Rich FitzJohn and
                  yilong zhang and
                  Christoph Sax and
                  Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez and
                  François Briatte and
                  Leonardo Collado-Torres},
  title        = {{ropensci/statistical-software-review-book: 
                   Official first standards versions}},
  month        = oct,
  year         = 2021,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  version      = {v0.1.0},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.5556756},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5556756}
}

1.2 Contributors

All contributions to this project are gratefully acknowledged using the allcontributors package following the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind are welcome!

1.2.1 Content

mpadge	maelle	noamross	helske	Nowosad
richfitz	elong0527	christophsax	Pakillo	briatte
lcolladotor	rkillick

1.2.2 Issue Authors

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