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CRAN Task View: Econometrics

https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Econometrics

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Additional maintainers #2

Closed zeileis closed 2 years ago

zeileis commented 2 years ago

To get more input and distribute the workload a bit more, it might be a good idea to add one or two further co-maintainers for the task view. @grantmcdermott do you have any suggestions for this?

Ideally we would have enthusiastic econometricians using R that have a good overview of the package ecosystem and are willing to volunteer for a project like this. Maybe we should ask Andrew Heiss? A female contributor would also be great. Any thoughts?

grantmcdermott commented 2 years ago

Definitely have a few names in mind. I think it would be good to get people adjacent to econ (e.g. poli sci) too. Should I reach out to some folks to gauge up-front interest/availability and we can take it from there?

zeileis commented 2 years ago

With political science I'm not sure whether we should have a joint task view or maybe encourage the creation of a separate PoliticalScience view. Do you have any thoughts on this?

My feeling is that political science uses a lot from econometrics, from psychometrics but then also brings dedicated special methods on analyzing voting behavior, roll calls, elections, etc. But maybe a dedicated specific Psephology task view (or something along those lines) would be better than a general PoliticalScience task view which is likely too broad.

Another separate task view that would be useful could be CausalInference.

zeileis commented 2 years ago

Just for the record:

Kevin Tappe, who has been the most active contributor to the task view over the last years, has now officially joined as a co-maintainer.
A CausalInference task view has now been officially proposed and already received positive feedback from some of the CRAN Task View Editors: https://github.com/cran-task-views/ctv/issues/15.

zeileis commented 2 years ago

Given that we are a team of three now, I'm closing this issue for now. Of course, if anyone of you @grantmcdermott or @tappek has good ideas in the future - especially regarding a female co-maintainer - please bring it up.