# 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.

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

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,
Maëlle Salmon and
Noam Ross and
Rich FitzJohn and
yilong zhang and
Christoph Sax and
Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez and
François Briatte and
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!