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Submission of naijR 0.6.1 for review under the rOpenSci Champions Program #600

@BroVic

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@BroVic

Date accepted: 2023-12-02

Submitting Author Name: Victor Ordu
Submitting Author Github Handle: @BroVic

Other Package Authors Github handles: (comma separated, delete if none)
Repository: https://github.com/BroVic/naijR

Version submitted: 0.6.1

Submission type: Standard

Editor: @emilyriederer

Reviewers: @mcsiple, @cagrigokcek

Archive: TBD
Version accepted: TBD
Language: en


  • Paste the full DESCRIPTION file inside a code block below:
Package: naijR
Type: Package
Title: Operations to Ease Data Analyses Specific to Nigeria
Version: 0.6.1
Depends: R (>= 3.6)
Imports:
    RColorBrewer (>= 1.1.2),
    cli (>= 3.6.0),
    lifecycle (>= 0.2.0),
    grDevices,
    graphics,
    mapdata (>= 2.3.0),
    maps (>= 3.3.0),
    rlang (>= 0.4.0),
    sf (>= 1.0.13),
    stats,
    stringi (>= 1.7.6),
    utils
Suggests: 
    ISOcodes,
    covr,
    here,
    knitr,
    purrr,
    readxl,
    rmarkdown,
    testthat (>= 3.0.0),
    usethis
Authors@R: person("Victor", "Ordu", 
              email = "victorordu@outlook.com",
              role = c("aut", "cre"),
              comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-3716-0668"))
Description: A set of convenience functions as well as geographical/political
  data about Nigeria, aimed at simplifying work with data and information that
  are specific to the country.
License: GPL-3
LazyData: TRUE
Encoding: UTF-8
RoxygenNote: 7.2.3
VignetteBuilder: knitr
RdMacros: lifecycle
URL: https://brovic.github.io/naijR/
BugReports: https://github.com/BroVic/naijR/issues
Config/testthat/edition: 3

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    • data retrieval
    • data extraction
    • data munging
    • data deposition
    • data validation and testing
    • workflow automation
    • version control
    • citation management and bibliometrics
    • scientific software wrappers
    • field and lab reproducibility tools
    • database software bindings
    • geospatial data
    • text analysis
  • Explain how and why the package falls under these categories (briefly, 1-2 sentences):
    naijR is an R package that contains a suite of functions that make it easier to deal with data and datasets about the country Nigeria and its constituent parts.

  • Who is the target audience and what are scientific applications of this package?
    Anyone needing Nigerian geospatial data.

  • Are there other R packages that accomplish the same thing? If so, how does yours differ or meet our criteria for best-in-category?
    Not to my knowledge.

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    Yes

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