99-contact.Rmd

# Issues and community {#community -}

## Citation{-}

`retomics` is an academic software. As such, it is -- and will always be -- completely free and open source. 
**If you use rethomics as part of your research, please cite [our reference publication](https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0209331).**

## Having troubles{-}

If you are having issues or you want help with something, the best thing you can do is **fill an "issue" on the github repository** of the relevant package.
For instance, if you are struggling to load DAMS data, you should go to the [the damr package](https://github.com/rethomics/damr/issues).
This way, you can see if other users have had the same issue, and if we are already working on it!

## Contributing {-}

We welcome external contributions and hope rethomics develops as a community.
There are several ways you can contribute:

* By requesting features and reporting bugs through the github issue system
* By sending pull requests to preexisting packages
* By volunteering to develop a new package (for instance to import a new type of data)

## Related projects{-}

* Arijit Ghosh built [VANESSA](https://github.com/orijitghosh/VANESSA-DAM), a nice shiny app around `rethomics` to analyse circadian data from Drosophila Activity Monitor data.