The Effect of Peer Review on Open-Source Community Engagement • codingAlone

Code to analyse GitHub issue activity across open-source ecosystems (CRAN, npm, PyPI, JOSS, rOpenSci) in relation to repository popularity and, for rOpenSci, formal peer-review status.

Go straight to coding-alone or review-dividend vignettes.

Installation

# install.packages ("remotes")
remotes::install_github ("mpadge/coding-alone")

Vignettes

vignette ("coding-alone", package = "codingAlone") - the main analysis on the demise of code communities.
vignette ("review-dividend", package = "codingAlone") - additional analyses of the effect of software peer review on sustaining open-source community engagement.
vignette ("data-generation", package = "codingAlone") - the pipeline used to fetch and assemble the underlying repository and GitHub issue data.