[blog] Paleontology R Packages to Benefit from Software Sustainability Institute Grant 🎉 🦴 Palaeoverse is a grassroots organization that develops R packages for paleontology (The Palaeoverse toolkit). 🐊🦕🌿🪸🦑 Will Gearty and The Palaeoverse Team are excited to announce funding from the Software […]

[blog] Throw-back Thursday! We get to celebrate another 5-year anniversary! Five years ago the targets package cleared rOpenSci Peer Review and was introduced by @landau 🎉 A successor to Will's equally popular drake package, targets quickly became a mainstream tool for reproducible pipelines […]

Hoy: Clínica de Aplicación para el Programa Campeon(e|a)s 📝 💫 https://ropensci.org/events/clinica-champions-2026/ Podés quedarte las dos horas o solo el tiempo que necesites: - Prepara tu solicitud para el Programa de Campeones - Conoce a la coanfitriona Yanina Bellini Saibene para charlar […]

🎉 ¡Se abrió el nuevo llamado al Programa de Campeones de rOpenSci! César comparte qué significó ser parte del Programa de Campeones y cómo esta experiencia impulsó su desarrollo profesional y su proyecto. https://vimeo.com/1160233787 📅 Postulaciones abiertas hasta el 20 de febrero Toda la […]

🎉 We’re excited to welcome Natalia da Silva and @andrew as new editors for rOpenSci’s Statistical Software Peer Review program! Their experience in statistics, R, reproducible research, and open science will help strengthen our collaborative, transparent, and community-driven review process […]

rOpenSci Coworking and Office Hours coming up in an hour! Today's Theme: Share your Positron setup! with cohost @noamross Tuesday February 3rd 09:00 Australia Western (01:00 UTC) https://ropensci.org/events/coworking-2026-02 #rstats @[email protected]

📌 Todavía podés aplicar a nuestro programa de campeon(a|e)s ¿Querés saber por qué es buena idea ser parte? Hoy Diana García Cortés, relata cómo el programa la ayudó a consolidar su trabajo en software científico abierto y a construir nuevas redes de colaboración. https://vimeo.com/1160230339 📅 […]

🎉 ¡Abrió el nuevo llamado al Programa de Campeones de rOpenSci! En este corto, Luis D. Verde Arregoitia comparte su experiencia como mentor y cómo el programa impulsa el crecimiento de proyectos y de personas en investigación abierta. https://vimeo.com/1160232952 📅 Postulaciones abiertas […]

🎉 ¡Abrió el nuevo llamado al Programa de Campeones de rOpenSci! Hoy @me_andre @mastodon.social cuenta cómo su participación en el programa fortaleció su proyecto y la conectó con una comunidad internacional de software científico abierto. 📅 Postulaciones abiertas hasta el 20 de febrero Toda […]

January news! 🗞️ #rstats 📢 Open call for the rOpenSci Champions Program 2026! 🎀 rOpenSci 2025 wrap-up 🚀 Testing the R-universe build workflow from your own GitHub repository 📆 Coworking 🚜 New packages {read.abares}, {dfms} 👋 Call for contributions & new maintainers 🗒️ Many blog posts! 🧰 […]

🎉 ¡Abrió el nuevo llamado al Programa de Campeones de rOpenSci! Francisco nos cuenta cómo es acompañar proyectos como mentor y por qué el programa es una oportunidad única para fortalecer comunidades de software científico abierto. 📅 Postulaciones abiertas […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

📝 nuevo en el blog] Cómo sumar nuevas personas al mantenimiento de tu paquete por @yabellini , @noamross y [@maelle Encontrar nuevas personas para el mantenimiento de tu paquete puede resultar abrumador. En este post compartimos consejos prácticos y estrategias para ayudarte a identificar […]

✍️ blog] How to Recruit a New Maintainer for Your Package by @yabellini @noamross & [@maelle Finding a new maintainer for your R package can be an overwhelming task. In this post, we share practical tips and strategies to help you find people who can contribute and take over your package […]

Coworking and Office Hours next week! Theme: Share your Positron setup! Tuesday February 3rd 09:00 Australia Western (01:00 UTC) Join @noamross and @steffilazerte - General coworking - Setup Positron and explore extensions and custom settings - Cowork independently on something related to R […]

📌 Ya publicamos todos los recursos de nuestra última Conversación con la comunidad: - Video con subtitulos - Blog post con resumen - Notas compartidas con preguntas y respuestas - Links a recursos compartidos 🔗 https://ropensci.org/es/commcalls/champions-latino-2026/ Gracias a @LuisDVerde, a […]

🎉 ¡Abrió el nuevo llamado al Programa de Campeones de rOpenSci! Durante las próximas semanas vamos a compartir una serie de videos con testimonios de participantes de ediciones anteriores. En primera persona, cuentan cómo fue su experiencia y qué impacto tuvo el programa en sus proyectos y […]

✍️ [blog] Closing The Loop with Our 2025 Wrap-up by The rOpenSci Team A post reflecting on a year of shared learning and collaboration. Take a look at our wrap-up and our plans for 2026. https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/01/22/yearinreview2025/ #rstats #OpenScience

¡En 10 minutos arrancamos! Software Libre de Investigación en América Latina y cómo podés ser parte de nuestro Programa de Campeón(a)s Sumate aqui: https://ropensci.org/es/commcalls/champions-latino-2026/

[blog] Introducing distionary for Building and Probing Distributions 🐟 🔔 Vincenzo Coia presents distionary, a package for quickly and easily making probability distributions from a couple of inputs or from the built-in library. Explore the package's main features with some nice examples and […]

[blog] Introducing distionary for Building and Probing Distributions 🐟 🔔 Vincenzo Coia presents distionary, a package for quickly and easily making probability distributions from a couple of inputs or from the built-in library. Explore the package's main features with some nice examples and […]

¡Mañana tenemos la primera "Conversaciones con la comunidad" de 2026 y será en español! Software Libre de Investigación en América Latina miércoles, 21 de enero 2026 15:00 UTC con Diana García Cortés, Erick Navarro Delgado y Luis D. Verde Arregoitia, participantes de nuestro programa […]

¡Nuestra siguiente "Conversaciones con la comunidad" será en español! Software Libre de Investigación en América Latina miércoles, 21 de enero 2026 15:00 UTC con Diana García Cortés, Erick Navarro Delgado y Luis D. Verde Arregoitia, participantes de nuestro programa Compartirán su experiencia […]

rOpenSci Coworking and Office Hours coming up in an hour! Today's Theme: Let it go! with cohost @yabellini Tuesday January 13th 09:00 Americas Pacific (17:00 UTC) https://ropensci.org/events/coworking-2026-01 #rstats @[email protected]

🚀 Convocatoria abierta para el programa de Campeon(a|e)s de rOpenSci 2026-2027. 🌎 Cohorte en español centrada en Latinoamérica. Un viaje de 12 meses por la ciencia abierta, software de investigación y creación de comunidades. 📅 Fechas clave. La convocatoria abre: 12 de enero de 2026 […]

🚀 Open Call Champions and Mentors for the rOpenSci Champions Program 2026-2027 🌎 Spanish-language cohort focused on Latin America 12-month journey in open science, research software, and community building 📅 Key dates Call opens: Jan 12, 2026 Community Call: Jan 21, 2026 Application Clinic […]

[blog] Throw-back Thursday! It's the 5-year anniversary of the rOpenSci Community Contributing Guide 🎉 Have you ever wanted to get more involved with rOpensci? Or wondered how rOpenSci might help you achieve your own goals? Explore the guide: https://contributing.ropensci.org/ Or learn more […]

✍️ ENG] blog] rOpenSci Code of Conduct Annual Review by Natalia Morandeira, [@mpadge and [@yabellini https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/01/07/conduct2025/ 📝 [ESP] [nuevo en el blog] Revisión anual del código de conducta de rOpenSci por Natalia Morandeira, Yanina Bellini Saibene y Mark Padgham […]

Coworking and Office Hours next week! Theme: Let it go! Tuesday January 13th 09:00 Americas Pacific (17:00 UTC) Join @yabellini and @steffilazerte - General coworking - Spend some time reviewing the forums, Slack workspaces, Newsletters, RSS feeds (etc. etc.) you're subscribed to - […]

✍️ nuevo en el blog] Reporte de Transparencia del Código de Conducta de rOpenSci 2025 por nuestro Comité del Código de Conducta: Natalia Morandeira, @mpadge and [@yabellini https://ropensci.org/es/blog/2026/01/06/transparenciacoc2025/

✍️ blog] rOpenSci 2025 Code of Conduct Transparency Report by our CoC Committee: Natalia Morandeira, @mpadge and [@yabellini https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/01/06/transparencycoc2025/

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@rOpenSci/115735884137280347 Nice to see @rOpenSci give some advice on how people can move/mirror to e.g. @Codeberg while continuing to be part of rOpenSci!

December news! 🗞️ #rstats 📼 rOpenSci at LatinR 📼 rOpenSci at uRos 📆 Coworking 📈 New package {mantis} 👋 Call for contributions & new maintainers 🗒️ 3 tech notes! 🧰 Package Development Corner https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/12/18/news-december-2025/

[casos de uso] Nos mudamos a una nueva plataforma de casos de uso :tada: Estos son algunos de nuestros primeros ejemplos publicados a principios de este año... 'Enseñando datos espaciales vectoriales en R' por @yabellini https://github.com/orgs/ropensci/discussions/2 Usando rnaturalearth […]

[use cases] We've moved to a new usecase platform 🎉 Here are some of our first examples posted earlier this year... 'Multilingual support for Teaching Tech Together Book' by @yabellini https://github.com/orgs/ropensci/discussions/1 Using babelquarto maintained by @maelle! 'Automated generation […]

[blog] Code Hosting Options Beyond GitHub rOpenSci activities generally rely on a GitHub-based workflow which can exclude users of other repositories. Here, @mpadge explores alternatives to GitHub for hosting code and describes ways in which to do so which also allow you to stay connected with […]

blog] Better [#RStats Code, Without Any Effort, Without Even AI By @maelle, edited by @etiennebacher & @steffilazerte Read about: ✨ {lintr}, an R package that detects many ways to improve your code; ✨ Air, a fast CLI (command-line interface) for formatting R code automatically and almost […]

blog] How to Assess Usage of your [#RStats Package 📂 Downloads 🌳 Reverse dependencies 🔍 Code mentions 🎓 Citations ⭐ Popularity measures: likes 🤝 Contributions to the repository 🙋 Use case reports 🕵️ Telemetry https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/12/11/package-usage/

[blog] Throw-back Thursday! It's already been a year since @yabellini, @maelle, @paocorrales, and @eliocamp published the rOpenSci's Localization and Translation Guidelines 🎉! This book explains the workflow for translating rOpenSci materials. As a result, Portuguese translation of the Dev […]

rOpenSci Coworking and Office Hours coming up in an hour! Today's Theme: Getting to know The Carpentries with cohost @angeliquetrusler Tuesday December 2nd 14:00 Europe Central (13:00 UTC) https://ropensci.org/events/coworking-2025-12 #rstats @rstats

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@Drmowinckels/115638077367401410 Do you like Advent Calendars? Do you always want to learn or improve your package development skills? @Drmowinckels have you covered! Follow her for a post every day until December 25, about developing #rstats packages. You can […]

November news! 🗞️ #rstats 📆 rOpenSci at LatinR 🌐 rOpenSci Dev Guide Now Available in Portuguese! 📼 Big Team Collaboration on Data Management and Analysis with rOpenSci 📼 rOpenSci at posit::conf(2025): recordings 🙏 Blog contributor roles in rOpenSci and beyond 📆 Coworking 📊 New package […]

[blog] Traduzindo o Dev Guide da rOpenSci para o Português: Colaboração, Comunidade, Desafios e Impacto Temos uma grande novidade! A tradução para o português do rOpenSci Dev Guide está concluída! Este foi um esforço comunitário de dois anos, com contribuições de pessoas da Angola, do Brasil e […]

[blog] Translating the rOpenSci Dev Guide into Portuguese: Collaboration, Community, Challenges, and Impact Big news! The Portuguese translation of the rOpenSci Dev Guide is now complete! This was a two-year, community-driven effort with contributors from Angola, Brazil, and Portugal […]

rOpenSci will be participating in @latinr_conf! Here is the key data for your participation: 🎙️ Keynotes - Heather Turner: Lowering Barriers to Contributing to R. - Stephanie Zimmer: Transforming a team to open-source first. - TRACE-LAC Team. Lo invisible del código abierto: Lecciones desde […]

Coworking and Office Hours next week! Theme: Getting to know The Carpentries Tuesday December 2nd 14:00 Europe Central (13:00 UTC) Join @angeliquetrusler and @steffilazerte - General coworking - Visit The Carpentries (https://carpentries.org/) - Cowork independently on something related to R […]

[blog] Computo - A Journal for Transparent and Reproducible Research in Statistics and Machine Learning Authors Julien Chiquet, François-David Collin, Marie-Pierre Etienne, Pierre Neuvial, Aymeric Stamm, and Nelle Varoquaux are excited to introduce Computo to the rOpenSci community as a road to […]

[blog] Throw-back Thursday! Crazy to think that's it's already been five years since Liam Brierley contributed this post about exploring diseases using rOpenSci packages! ⏳ Using Open-Access Tools (rentrez, taxize) to Find Coronaviruses, Their Genetic Sequences, and Their Hosts 📆 November 10 […]

📣 This is tomorrow! Join us. 🙂 📦 💬 rOpenSci Community Call: Graceful Internet Packages 📆 Thursday, 06 November 2025 07:00 PST • online 🌐 with @salixdubois @tanho and @LeNematode 🙌 📌 Information + How to join: https://ropensci.org/commcalls/graceful-internet-packages/ #rstats […]

rOpenSci Coworking and Office Hours coming up in an hour! Today's Theme: Code Review with rOpenSci with cohost @lizhare Tuesday November 4th 09:00 Australia Western (01:00 UTC) https://ropensci.org/events/coworking-2025-11 #rstats @rstats

💫 Next week Community Call! 📦 Graceful Internet Packages with Salix Dubois, Tan Ho & Matthias Grenié 🙌 📆Thursday, 06 November 2025, 15:00 UTC Information + How to join + find your local time: https://ropensci.org/commcalls/graceful-internet-packages/ We look forward to seeing you! #rstats