[blog] Throw-back Thursday! It's already been 5-years since our first fully Spanish Software Peer Review submitted by @pacha 🎉! ⏳ The Story Behind censo2017, the First rOpenSci Package to be Reviewed in Spanish 📆 July 27, 2021 🔗 https://ropensci.org/blog/2021/07/27/censo2017/ #rstats […]

[blog] FOSS Tools for Lazy Editors ✍️ @steffilazerte shares her editorial workflow for the rOpenSci blog, built on FOSS tools configured as extensions in Positron 🛠️ Learn how cSpell, Vale, Panache, and GitHub PRs help automate tedious editorial tasks like spell checking, style linting […]

Coworking and Office Hours next week! Theme: Debugging in R Tuesday July 7th 09:00 Americas Pacific (16:00 UTC) Join @PipingHotData and @yabellini - General coworking - Read up on debugging in R - Cowork independently on something related to R - Chat with Shannon and other attendees and […]

June news 🗞️ #rstats 🌟 Yanina Joins the 2026 Sovereign Tech Fellowship 🙏 New editors Ronny Hernandez Mora, Joel Nitta, and Nick Tierney 📑 A new guide: Organizing Events for First-time Contributors ✍️ Champions Program update 🚀 R-Universe updates 👀 Software Peer-Review updates 🎂 […]

It's round 2 of @ropensci.org's Quinceañera celebration! Join us at 9PM EST / 9AM AWST #RStats 🧪

🎉 Reminder! rOpenSci turns 15, come celebrate with us tomorrow! 📅 Wed June 17, 9am Australia Western (01:00 UTC) 🔗 https://ropensci.org/events/celebrations-2026-06-17/ Come reflect on the past and brainstorm the future with @noamross, @yabellini, and @steffilazerte 🥳 #rstats @[email protected]

📝 [tech note] Five recent R-universe features you might have missed by @jeroenooms In this technote, we look at a few recent additions that make R-universe a little nicer, faster, or more convenient to use. https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/06/07/r-universe-updates/ #rstats

✍️ [new on the blog] Ronny Hernandez Mora, Joel Nitta, and Nick Tierney Join rOpenSci Software Peer Review Editorial Team We welcome Joel and Nick as new editors, and formally introduce Ronny, who joined the editorial team in August 2025. Read more here […]

📝 Once voces latinoamericanas para la ciencia abierta: la nueva cohorte de Campeon(a|e)s rOpenSci 2026 Descubre más sobre esta cohorte en este nuevo artículo escrito por todas las personas participantes de la nueva promoción […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

✍️ [blog] Eleven Latin American Voices for Open Science: The New Cohort of Champions rOpenSci 2026 Find out more about this Champions Program cohort in this new blog post by all the new cohort participants: https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/06/09/champions-2026/ #rstats #foss

🎉 Reminder! rOpenSci turns 15, come celebrate with us tomorrow! 📅 Wed June 10, 9am Americas Pacific (16:00 UTC) 🔗 https://ropensci.org/events/celebrations-2026-06-10/ Come reflect on the past and brainstorm the future with @noamross, @yabellini, and @steffilazerte 🥳 #rstats @[email protected]

🎉 rOpenSci turns 15! Join us for a Quinceañera celebration — two events for different time zones. In this virtual mix of Celebration, Networking and Brainstorming, we'll split into groups to explore prompts about rOpenSci's past and future. Come for the celebration, stay for the […]

[blog] Throw-back Thursday! 12 years ago @richfitz, Matt Pennell, Amy Zanne, and Will Cornwell wrote a post about the challenge of reproducible research. Today it's still a challenge, but have the challenges changed? Some yes, but some not (taxonomy I'm looking at you)! ⏳ Reproducible research […]

[blog] A New Guide: Organizing Events for First-time Contributors @steffilazerte and @yabellini introduce a new guide book for organizing events to support first-time contributors to FOSS! 🎉 Learn how to run mini-translathons and mini-hackathons, complete with timelines, templates, and lessons […]

[blog] A New Guide: Organizing Events for First-time Contributors @steffilazerte and @yabellini introduce a new guide book for organizing events to support first-time contributors to FOSS! 🎉 Learn how to run mini-translathons and mini-hackathons, complete with timelines, templates, and lessons […]

[blog] A New Guide: Organizing Events for First-time Contributors @steffilazerte and @yabellini introduce a new guide book for organizing events to support first-time contributors to FOSS! 🎉 Learn how to run mini-translathons and mini-hackathons, complete with timelines, templates, and lessons […]

[blog] A New Guide: Organizing Events for First-time Contributors @steffilazerte and @yabellini introduce a new guide book for organizing events to support first-time contributors to FOSS! 🎉 Learn how to run mini-translathons and mini-hackathons, complete with timelines, templates, and lessons […]

rOpenSci Coworking and Office Hours coming up in an hour! Today's Theme: 15 years with rOpenSci with cohost @noamross Tuesday June 2nd 14:00 Europe Central (12:00 UTC) https://ropensci.org/events/coworking-2026-06 #rstats @[email protected]

📝 [blog] Our goodpractice Package Has New Superpowers by Mark Padgham & Athanasia Monika Mowinckel We have worked hard over the past few months on major upgrades to our goodpractice package. Checks are now grouped into categories, making it easier to control which checks are run. The biggest […]

congrats to @rOpenSci! https://rogue-scholar.org/records/hac49-exn84 https://doi.org/10.59350/cz2sy-c7z69

💻️ Thank you to the 37 maintainers from 15 countries who agreed to participate in this #MaintainerMonth spotlights 👏 👏 These people maintain more than 50 packages that collectively serve thousands of researchers and data practitioners worldwide. 📦 🔬 And thanks […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

¡Meet Guada Pascal 🇦🇷! #MaintainerMonth #RStats She is a Data Science Researcher based in Argentina. As an rOpenSci Champion, she developed matildaNLP, a package that includes a corpus of Spanish text from the Matilda initiative. Find her at: 🌐 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Meet Ezekiel Adebayo Ogundepo 🇳🇬 #MaintainerMonth Ezekiel is a data scientist with 10+ years of experience in interpreting and analyzing data in a fast-paced environment. As a rOpenSci Champion, Ezekiel worked on bulkreadr, an #RStats package to simplify and […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Today's #MaintainerMonth Highlight is Austin Koontz 🇺🇸 Research Consultant for the Hoban Conservation Lab, studying conservation genetics in oaks with a background in bioinformatics and plant population genetics. Is the maintainer of SymbiotaR2 package that […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Meet Mauro Loprete 🇺🇾! #MaintainerMonth #RStats Mauro is a Data Engineer, a Teacher Assistant, a Statistician, and a Databricks Data Engineer Professional. As an #rOpenSci 's Champion, Mauro works on metasurvey package that provides a step-based pipeline for […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

May news 🗞️ #rstats 🎉 15 Years of rOpenSci, and we’re just getting started ✍️ Champions Program update 🙌 May is Maintainer Month 📬 Software-Review update 🚀 Social media cards for R-universe 📆 Coworking 🗒️ Blog posts 🧰 Package development corner […]

#MaintainerMonth Highlight: Bilikisu Wunmi Olatunji 🇳🇬! Bilikisu is a Data Scientist and an R Shiny developer. She is a RUG and a RLadies+ chapter organizer. As an rOpenSci Champions she developed and maintains chartkickR, an htmlwidget that seamlessly […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Meet Marcos Prunelo 🇦🇷 He is a professor at the School of Statistics at the National University of Rosario, Argentina. As an rOpenSci Champion, Marcos developed Kare,l a package that implements a tool aimed at teaching fundamental and general programming […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Coworking and Office Hours next week! Theme: 15 years with rOpenSci Tuesday June 2nd 14:00 Europe Central (12:00 UTC) Join @noamross and @steffilazerte - General coworking - Explore rOpenSci projects - Do a deep dive into the rOpenSci blog history - Chat with Noam and other attendees and […]

👋 Meet Will Pearse! 🇬🇧 Associate Professor of Evolutionary Ecology at Imperial College London. He maintains {suppdata} for rOpenSci: a package that lets researchers download supplementary data files directly from published scientific articles across major […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

👋 Meet Alex Koiter! 🇨🇦 Professor & Environmental Scientist at Brandon University focused on soil erosion, watershed management, sediment dynamics, and geomorphology. He maintains {mbquartR}, a package for working with Manitoba's quarter-section land survey […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Today, meet Haydée Svab 🇧🇷! She is the Executive Director of Open Knowledge Brasil, R-Ladies São Paulo Co-organizer, and a Data Scientist at ASK-AR. Haydée also worked on urban mobility, and as a participant of the rOpenSci Champions Program, she developed the […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

👋 Meet Will Landau! 🇺🇸 Statistician and software developer. He maintains {targets} and several related packages to the targets ecosystem. Target is a pipeline toolkit that makes data analysis in R faster and fully reproducible by tracking dependencies and […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

👋 Meet Erick Navarro Delgado! 🇨🇦🇲🇽 PhD candidate in Bioinformatics at the University of British Columbia. He maintains {RAMEN} for rOpenSci, a package for identifying associations between repeated environmental exposures and molecular outcomes, supporting […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

👋 Meet Yi-Chin Sunny Tseng! 🇨🇦 🇹🇼 Bioacoustic ecologist with a career centered on bird-related research. She maintains {bbsTaiwan}, a package she developed as rOpenSci's Champions. The bbsTaiwan package is for accessing and analyzing data from Taiwan's Breeding […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

👋 Meet Sam Albers! 🇨🇦 Data Scientist and maintainer of {tidyhydat} for rOpenSci. The package provides access to historical and real-time national hydrometric data from the Water Survey of Canada data sources and then applies tidy data principles. Sam also helps […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

👋 Today's highlight is Jeroen Ooms! 🇳🇱 Staff Research Engineer at rOpenSci, tidyverse team member, and project lead for R-universe. He also maintains {magick}, {pdftools}, and {gert} for rOpenSci. Find Jeroen at: 🐘 @jeroenooms 💻 github.com/jeroen 🌐 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

👋 Meet Micha Silver! 🇮🇱 Postdoc at Ben Gurion University (Sde Boker campus), working with spatial data, satellite imagery, and remote sensing. He maintains {rOPTRAM} for #rOpenSci: a package implementing the OPtical TRApezoid Model for estimating soil moisture […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

👋 Today meet Tad Dallas! 🇺🇸 Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina and maintainer of {helminthR} for rOpenSci. The package provides access to the London Natural History Museum's host-parasite database, one of the largest host-parasite databases […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

📢 The call for submissions for #LatinR2026 has been extended! There’s still time to share your projects, experiences, and work with the R community in Latin America 💜 🗓️ New deadline: June 1 ✍️ openreview.net/group?id=LATIN-R.com/2026/Conference 🔗 latinr.org 📍 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

👋 Meet Jonathan Keane! Engineer at Posit, formerly at Ursa Computing, Voltron Data, and Socure. Jon maintains {dittodb} for rOpenSci: a package that makes testing database code easy by recording and replaying real database interactions, so tests run without […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

👋 Meet Sehrish Kanwal! 🇦🇺 Bioinformatics scientist at the University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research. As part of the Champions program, she maintains {RNAsum} for rOpenSci: a package for summarising and visualising RNA-seq data analysis results […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

👋 Meet Mark Padgham! 🇩🇪 rOpenSci Software Review Lead and maintainer of {pkgcheck}. This package checks whether a package is ready for submission to our software peer review and is very useful for R package developers to check their own packages against our […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

👋 Meet Erika Siregar! 🇮🇩 🇬🇧 PhD Student in Data Science at the University of Sheffield and Co-Founder of R-Ladies Jakarta. She maintains {rplaywright} for rOpenSci: an R interface to Microsoft Playwright that enables browser automation and web testing from R […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

🎉 The #latinr2026 call for proposals is open! The 9th edition will be held in person in Medellín, Colombia 🇨🇴, on November 11–13. You can participate with oral presentations, lightning talks or posters. 🚨 Submissions Deadline: June 1, 2026 All the info at: https://latinr.org/en/ #LatinR […]

El miércoles compartimos un taller práctico en R con ARcenso 🇦🇷. Mucha gente se acercó para aprender a usarlo, explorar qué se puede hacer con datos censales y compartir preguntas e ideas en comunidad. Gracias @ropensci.org por acompañar desde el inicio 💜

👋 Meet Karl Broman! 🇺🇸 Professor of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics at UW–Madison and applied statistician working on statistical genomics. He maintains {chromer} and {aRxiv}. Both packages provide programmatic access to APIs: Chromosome Counts Database and […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

👋 Meet Will Gearty! 🇺🇸 Paleobiologist, Software Engineer, and Open Scientist. Postdoctoral Researcher at Syracuse University and maintainer of {rredlist} for rOpenSci. The package provides access to the IUCN Red List API, which is a global list of threatened […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

👋 Meet Philippe Massicotte! 🇨🇦 Research Assistant and maintainer of {rnaturalearth}, {rnaturalearthdata}, and {gitignore} for rOpenSci. The first two packages facilitate mapping by providing world vector maps and data. {gitignore} helps you to create useful […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

#MaintainerMonth spotlight! Meet Francesca Palmeira She is a biologist working on conservation conflicts and ecological modeling. Francesca participated on rOpenSci Champions Program, developing {pcir}, a package to calculate, compare, and visualize the […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]