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Author: woodthom2

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+title: "Easy issues to get started on in Harmony: Python and R"
+description: Want to help develop Harmony?
+date: 2024-10-29
+categories: ["development"]
+image: /images/join-open-source-project.png
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+url: "/open-source-for-social-science/good-first-issues-python-and-r/"
+---
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+We have a few more issues that have been added to the issue trackers.
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+If you are new and would like to make a pull request in either the Python or R libraries feel free to pick these up - they should be quite small.
+
+## Easy issues in Python library
+
+We would like to expose the "between instrument matches" and the "negation" switches in the Python library and then from the API side. Ultimately this will allow the R library to expose this functionality.
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+* https://github.com/harmonydata/harmony/issues/60: Allow user to turn on/off the "within instrument matches" behaviour
+* https://github.com/harmonydata/harmony/issues/59: Allow user to turn on/off the negation behaviour
+
+## Easy issues for R library
+
+* https://github.com/harmonydata/harmony_r/issues/4  Can we have a built in function to turn the matching scores into a crosswalk table (e.g. a table like the website produces) and output as a dataframe? 
+* https://github.com/harmonydata/harmony_r/issues/5 Expose an easy and idiomatic R-like way to create instruments in R
+
+## How else can I contribute?
+
+Please take a look at the issue trackers on our repositories. There are issues tagged as `good first issue` which you can pick up
+   * [Python](https://github.com/harmonydata/harmony) - the main core library and the Python package which is on [Pypi](https://pypi.org/project/harmonydata/)
+   * [R](https://github.com/harmonydata/harmony_r) - the R port is on [CRAN](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/harmonydata/index.html) and it is slightly less mature than Python so we really appreciate if you can give the R package some TLC.
+   * [API](https://github.com/harmonydata/harmonyapi) - the Python API runs with Pydantic and Fast API and is running on an on-prem server enabling the web app to work
+   * [Web front end](https://github.com/harmonydata/app) - we welcome feedback and contributions on front end and UX issues
+* If you're doing research and found Harmony useful, please [cite us](/ai-in-mental-health/bmc-psychiatry-paper/)!
+* If you're a researcher trying to use the tool, and you encounter a problem, a bug, or a feature which you would like us to implement, please [raise an issue on Github](https://github.com/harmonydata/harmony) or [message us on Discord](https://discord.gg/harmonydata).