👋 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]

rOpenSci has been very influential and helped me to be better at open and reproducible research. I still remember my first workshop at ESA 2012 (or 2013?), where they introduced me to git! Happy 15th anniversary!

✍️ 15 Years of rOpenSci, and We’re Just Getting Started 🎉 by The rOpenSci Team rOpenSci turns 15! 🎉 We're celebrating all year long, starting with three virtual community events on June. Come connect, reflect, and help shape the next 15 years […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

👋 Meet Moritz Hennicke! 🇧🇪 PostDoc in Political Economy & Industrial Economics and maintainer of {nuts}, a package to convert european regional data with NUTS codes between versions. Find Morits at: 🌐 hennicke.science 💻 github.com/AAoritz 🔗 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

#MaintainerMonth highlight #RStats Meet Pao Corrales 🇦🇷 🇦🇺 Pao works as a Research Software Engineer to support research in climate and weather. She is an educator and maintains {agroclimatico}. This R package is a set of functions for calculating climate and […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

👋 Meet Zhian Kamvar! 🇺🇸 Senior Software Engineer at Recast and maintainer of {tinkr} for rOpenSci. tinkr package cast (R)Markdown Files to XML and Back Again. Find Zhian at: 🐘 hachyderm.io/@zkamvar 💻 github.com/zkamvar 🔗 linkedin.com/in/zkamvar #maintainermonth #ROpenSci #rstats

#MaintainerMonth spotlight! Meet Andrea Gómez Vargas Andrea is a sociologist and data analyst focused on population statistics and official data, developing R tools for the public sector. She is part of rOpenSci's Champions Program and maintains {ARcenso}. This […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

👋 Meet Victor Ordu! 🇳🇬🇺🇸 Medical Doctor and software developer. Participant of rOpenSci Champions Program and maintainer of {naijR}, an R package that contains a suite of functions that make it easier to deal with data and datasets about the country Nigeria and […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

👋 Meet Victor Ordu! 🇳🇬🇺🇸 Medical Doctor and software developer. Participant of rOpenSci Champions Program and maintainer of {naijR}, an R package that contains a suite of functions that make it easier to deal with data and datasets about the country Nigeria and […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

👋 Meet Carolina Pradier 🇦🇷 🇨🇦 She researches gender inequalities in science through bibliometrics. Maintainer of {eph}, Argentina's Permanent Household Survey Data and Manipulation Utilities. Carolina is a participant in the rOpenSci's Champions Program. Find […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Today we’re featuring Maëlle Salmon! 🇫🇷 R(esearch) Software Engineer and Blogger. She maintains {saperlipopette}, {babelquarto}, and {babeldown} for rOpenSci. 🐘 @maelle 💻 github.com/maelle 🌐 masalmon.eu #maintainermonth #ROpenSci #rstats

👋 Meet Marcelo S. Perlin! 🇧🇷 Associate Professor of Finance at UFRGS and maintainer of {yfR}, an R package to download and organizes financial data from Yahoo Finance. Find Marcelo at: 🌐 https://msperlin.com 💻 https://github.com/msperlin 🔗 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Today we’re featuring Julia Silge! 🇺🇸 Data scientist and MLOps practitioner with #rstats, specializing in text mining. She maintains {qualtRics} that implements the retrieval of survey data using the Qualtrics API and aims to reduce the pre-processing steps […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

[blog] Throw-back Thursday! Last year @maelle introduced the idea of ROR IDs (tldr; ROR IDs are to Organizations what ORCiDs are to individuals). Have you set your organizations up with ROR IDs and put them in all the docs yet? ⏳ Roaringly Acknowledge Organizations with ROR IDs in DESCRIPTION […]

👋 Meet Daniel Vartanian! 🇧🇷 Researcher at the University of São Paulo and maintainer of {mctq}, an R package that provides a complete toolkit to process the Munich ChronoType Questionnaire (MCTQ), a quantitative and validated tool to assess chronotypes using […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

👋 Meet Steffi Lazerte! 🇨🇦 Independent R Consultant and Teacher, Behavioural Ecologist, Citizen Science Enthusiast, and rOpenSci Community Assistant. She maintains {weathercan} that makes it easier to search for and download multiple months/years of historical […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

🗒️ [blog] New Mentoring Team with Experienced Mentors and New Voices Meet the new team of mentors who will accompany our Champions in their projects for a year, sharing experience, guidance, and enthusiasm. https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/05/06/mentors-2026/ #rstats #mentoring #rse #foss

✍️ [nuevo en el blog] Nuevo equipo de mentor(a|e)s con experiencia y nuevas voces Conocé al nuevo equipo de mentor(a|e)s que durante un año van a acompañar a nuestros campeon(a|e)s en sus proyectos, compartiendo experiencia, guía y entusiasmo […]

👋 Meet Peter Desmet! 🇧🇪 Biodiversity informatician at INBO, passionate about open data and open science. He develops research software, maintains data standards, and publishes datasets. Peter maintains {frictionless}, a package to read and write Frictionless […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

👋 Meet Ronald M. Visser #MaintainerMonth spotlight! Ronald is an interdisciplinary scientist combining archaeology, dendrochronology, and data science. He maintains {dendroNetwork}, an R package for analysing dendrochronological networks. Find him at: 🐘 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

May is #maintainermonth! Meet the humans behind your favorite #rstats packages All month, we will spotlight the maintainers behind rOpenSci's software ecosystem. Stay tuned to meet them!

rOpenSci Coworking and Office Hours coming up in an hour! Today's Theme: Code Review with rOpenSci with cohost @lizhare Tuesday May 5th 09:00 Australia Western (01:00 UTC) https://ropensci.org/events/coworking-2026-05 #rstats @[email protected]

April news 🗞️ #rstats Tomáš Kalibera (1978–2026) 👋 New editors Alec Robitaille and Lucy D’Agostino McGowan ✍️ Champions Program update 🧪 Collaborating between Bioconductor and R-universe on Development of Common Infrastructure 🎙️ Yanina Bellini Saibene at R/Medicine 2026 🎙️ Jeroen Ooms at […]

Coworking and Office Hours next week! Theme: Code Review with rOpenSci Tuesday May 5th 09:00 Australia Western (01:00 UTC) Join @lizhare and @steffilazerte - General coworking - Explore resources for Code Review - Sign up to volunteer to do [software peer-review]( […]

✍️ [blog] Expanding the Editorial Team: Alec Robitaille and Lucy D''Agostino McGowan Join as Editors We're excited and grateful to welcome Alec and Lucy as new editors! Read more in the blog post: https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/04/16/editors2026/ #rstats

[blog] reviser: Analyzing Real-Time Data Revisions in R 📈 Marc Burri and Philipp Wegmüller introduce reviser, an R package for analyzing real-time data vintages and revisions in macroeconomic datasets. Learn about reviser’s workflow: reshape vintages, extract revisions, summarize revision […]

✍️ [blog] Collaborating between Bioconductor and R-Universe on Development of Common Infrastructure by rOpenSci and Bioconductor Teams The R-consortium ISC top-level project R-universe is working with Bioconductor to gradually modernize parts of its infrastructure while accommodating the […]

rOpenSci Coworking and Office Hours coming up in an hour! Today's Theme: Getting to know the CSID Network with cohost Irene Ramos Tuesday April 7th 09:00 Americas Pacific (16:00 UTC) https://ropensci.org/events/coworking-2026-04 #rstats @[email protected]

[blog] Throw-back Thursday! Not so long ago @yabellini shared how the Champions program supports the growth of mentors. Do you have some mentors you'd like to support? ⏳ Supporting rOpenSci Mentors with Practical Tools 📆 April 8, 2025 🔗 https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/04/08/mentoring-tools/ […]

[help wanted] An rOpenSci package is looking for some help! 🙏 📦 GLMMcosinor (maintained by Rex Parsons) Check out this 'help wanted' issue: '[improvement] extract and visualise rhythms at the random-effect level' at https://github.com/ropensci/GLMMcosinor/issues/37 (by Rex Parsons) #rstats […]

[help wanted] rOpenSci packages are looking for maintainer help 🙏 The following packages are looking for a new maintainer (or maintainer team). Check out their issues to see about getting involved landscapetools - https://github.com/ropensci/landscapetools/issues/48 NLMR - […]

[blog] A Better R Programming Experience Thanks to Tree-sitter Did you know how Tree-sitter's support for R help you get ✨ reformatting through Air and linting through Jarl; ✨ auto-completion or help on hover in the Positron IDE; ✨ better search for R on GitHub; ✨ and more! By @maelle […]

Excited that @ropensci.org 's April co-working and office hours will be held jointly with the Climate Sensitive Infectious Disease network! Join us and CSID network hosts Irene Ramos and Adamu Saleh Saidu on Apr 7 at 16:00 UTC to get to know a peer community!: ropensci.org/events/cowor...

Coworking and Office Hours next week! Theme: Getting to know the CSID Network Tuesday April 7th 09:00 Americas Pacific (16:00 UTC) Join Irene Ramos and @steffilazerte - General coworking - Visit the [CSID Network](https://csidnet.org/) - Cowork independently on something related to R - Chat […]

March news! 🗞️ #rstats 🌐 rOpenSci Dev Guide 1.0.0: Trilingual and Improved 🙌 Champions Program Update 🚀 R-Universe update 🔎 Software review and usage of AI tools 🤖 Software review bot updates 📆 Coworking 🐦 New package {suwo} 👋 Call for contributions & new maintainers 🗒️ Blog posts! 🧰 […]

[blog] Breaking Release of the patentsview Package Russ Allen and Chris Baker introduce major updates to patentsview following breaking changes to the PatentsView API 🔧 Learn what's changed and how to update your code to work with the new API endpoints and structure […]

On International Women’s Day, we celebrate the many women who shape rOpenSci every day. 💙 From software development and peer review to mentorship, community leadership, and training, women are building and strengthening open science across our global community. They play key roles across […]

[blog] Throw-back Thursday! Time flies when you're having fun! 10 years ago @jeroenooms introduced pdftools to the rOpenSci ecosystem as a staff-maintained package! ⏳ Introducing pdftools - A fast and portable PDF extractor 📆 March 1, 2016 🔗 […]

📝 [blog] How do we keep software peer review human-centered in the age of generative AI? That’s the question behind our latest post at rOpenSci, where we describe: • new expectations around AI use • what this means for authors, reviewers, and editors • why transparency matters more than ever […]

rOpenSci Coworking and Office Hours coming up in an hour! Today's Theme: rOpenSci Editors with cohost @mpadge Tuesday March 3rd 14:00 Europe Central (13:00 UTC) https://ropensci.org/events/coworking-2026-03 #rstats @[email protected]

[blog] rOpenSci Dev Guide 1.0.0: Trilingual and Improved 🥳 rOpenSci Software Peer Review’s guidance is gathered in an online book that keeps improving! This blog post summarises what’s new in our Dev Guide 1.0.0, https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/03/02/devguide-1.0.0/

February news! 🗞️ #rstats 💙 Strong Engagement in the Champions Program Call 🤔 Policy Updates for use of Generative AI Tools 🚀 Community Dashboard for your own R-Universe 📆 Coworking 💓 New packages {Athlytics}, {orgmetrics} 👋 Call for contributions & new maintainers 🗒️ Blog posts! 🧰 […]