Submit to RopenSci

[adam3smith]

This is a longterm goal, but I think this would fit very nicely in their portfolio & would get us additional review

[mccallc]

Submitting Author: Michael McCall (@mccallc) Other Authors: Sebastian Karcher (@adam3smith) Repository: https://github.com/PESData/awardFindR Version submitted: 0.1.0 Editor: TBD Reviewers: TBD

Archive: TBD Version accepted: TBD

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• Paste the full DESCRIPTION file inside a code block below:

Package: awardFindR
Type: Package
Title: QDR awardFindR
Version: 0.1.0
Authors@R: c(person("Michael", "McCall", email = "mimccall@syr.edu",
                  role = c("aut", "cre"), comment = c(ORCID="0000-0002-4668-4212")),
                  person("Sebastian", "Karcher", email = "karcher@u.northwestern.edu",
                  role = c("ctb"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-8249-7388")),
                  person("Qualitative Data", "Repository", email = "qdr@syr.edu",
                  role = c("cph")),
                  person("Sloan", "Foundation", email = "technology@sloan.org",
                  role = c("fnd")))
Author: Michael C. McCall
Maintainer: Michael McCall <mimccall@syr.edu>
Description: Queries a number of scientific awards databases.
    Collects relevant results based on keyword and date parameters,
    returns list of projects that fit those criteria as a data frame.
    Sources include: Arnold Ventures, Carnegie Corp, Federal RePORTER,
    Gates Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Mellon Foundation, NEH, NIH,
    NSF, Open Philanthropy, Open Society Foundations, Rockefeller Foundation,
    Russell Sage Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 
    Sloan Foundation, Social Science Research Council, John Templeton Foundation,
    USASpending.gov
URL: https://github.com/PESData/awardFindR
BugReports: https://github.com/PESData/awardFindR/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
Imports:
    rvest,
    xml2,
    readr,
    httr
RoxygenNote: 7.1.1
Suggests: 
    knitr,
    rmarkdown,
    testthat (>= 3.0.0),
    vcr,
    covr
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Depends: 
    R (>= 2.10)
Config/testthat/edition: 3

Scope

• Please indicate which category or categories from our package fit policies this package falls under: (Please check an appropriate box below. If you are unsure, we suggest you make a pre-submission inquiry.):

  • [X] data retrieval
  • [ ] data extraction
  • [ ] data munging
  • [ ] data deposition
  • [ ] 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):

Acts as an interface to web-based APIs and search engines.

• Who is the target audience and what are scientific applications of this package?

Anyone interested in trends in academic funding or researchers looking for a suitable funder based on previously funded research. The package can be used for scientometrics more generally, or more narrowly field-specific lines of inquiry.

• Are there other R packages that accomplish the same thing? If so, how does yours differ or meet our criteria for best-in-category?

Nothing that is functionally similar.

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Yes

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[mccallc]

ticket opened at https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/432#issue-823332941