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Author: sergegoussev

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+# List of open materials relevant to price statistics
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+The following list is a mini-compenidum of other materials that may be of interest to reseachers in the prices statistics discipline. The list is meant to be live and up to date, hence if you see any inaccuracies, a broken link, or something missing - please feel free to add!
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+## Packages applicable to price statistics
+
+* [Awesome list of official statistics software](https://github.com/SNStatComp/awesome-official-statistics-software)
+* [References in JOSS paper](https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.06781)
+* [Steve's stars](https://github.com/stars/marberts/lists/index-numbers)
+
+### R
+
+* [`hicp` package (Eurostat)](https://github.com/eurostat/hicp/tree/main) - provides functions to access and work with HICP data (price indices and weights) from Eurostat's public database
+* ['PriceIndices' package](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/PriceIndices/vignettes/PriceIndices.html)
+* [`IndexNumR` package](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/IndexNumR/index.html)
+* [`piar` package](https://marberts.github.io/piar/)
+* [CRAN task view for official statistics](https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/OfficialStatistics.html)
+
+### Python
+
+* [`PriceIndexCalc` package](https://github.com/drrobotk/PriceIndexCalc) - a partially working package to calculate price indices.
+
+### Data packages
+* [`dff`](https://github.com/eurostat/dff) - a repo on Dominick's Finer Foods showcasing the dataset by Jens Mehrhoff
+
+## Reproducibility resources
+
+### General
+* [The Turing Way](https://book.the-turing-way.org/) - an open science/collaboration project
+* [`reproducible-project-template`](https://github.com/the-turing-way/reproducible-project-template/tree/main) - repo template (i.e cookie cutter template) 
+
+### Reproducible Analytical Pipelines (RAP)
+* [RAP Companion, by Matthew Gregory and Matthew Upson shows much of the original RAP ideas (for R)](https://ukgovdatascience.github.io/rap_companion/)
+* [Udemy course on RAP with R](https://www.udemy.com/course/reproducible-analytical-pipelines/)
+* [Reproducible Analytical Pipelines or RAP (NHS) site](https://nhsdigital.github.io/rap-community-of-practice/introduction_to_RAP/what_is_RAP/)
+* [ESCAP training on RAP with web scraping application for price statistics](https://escap-sd.github.io/ESCAP_RAP_class/docs/)