[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

The PSF has withdrawn their NSF grant proposal: > 'In the end, however, the PSF simply can’t agree to a statement that we won’t operate any programs that “advance or promote” diversity, equity, and inclusion, as it would be a betrayal of our mission and our community. ' […]

Coworking and Office Hours next week! Theme: Code Review with rOpenSci Tuesday November 4th 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 at rOpenSci ( […]

October news! 🗞️ #rstats 🦋 2025-11-06 Community call: Graceful Internet Packages 📼 Community call recording: R-multiverse, a new way to publish R packages 📆 Coworking 📦 New package {partialling.out} 👋 Call for new maintainers 🗒️ 4 blog posts! 🧰 Package Development Corner […]

[blog] Go for Launch! Packages Shipped to the R-Multiverse ✨ https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/10/22/packages-multiverse/

I'll be talking at some online events in the next few weeks: this Thurs Oct 23 I'll be on DS Hangout with @libbyheeren.bsky.social, and on Thursday Nov 6 I'll be on the @ropensci.org community call about graceful internet packages! #rstats posit.co/data-science... ropensci.org/commcalls/gr...

[blog] Recognition Beyond Blog Post Authors ✨ New blog roles: editors, translators, interviewees ✨ https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/10/14/blog-roles/

blog] A Primer on Domain Verification by [@maelle Are you the mother goat or the wolf? 🐐 🐺 https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/10/10/verification/

🎉 Happy #internationalrseday! 🌍 Today, we celebrate the Research Software Engineers who make open, reproducible, and reliable research possible. At rOpenSci, we’re proud to support and collaborate with RSEs who build, review, and maintain open research software, making science more transparent […]

rOpenSci Coworking and Office Hours coming up in an hour! Today's Theme: Ship your R package to the R-multiverse! with cohost @landau Tuesday October 7th 09:00 Americas Pacific (16:00 UTC) https://ropensci.org/events/coworking-2025-10 #rstats @rstats

🎙️ Resources from Community Call "R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages" with @landau ✅ video with subtitles ✅ R-multiverse website with guidelines to participate in ✅ collaborative notes https://ropensci.org/commcalls/r-multiverse/ #rstats @RConsortium

[blog] Throw-back Thursday! Time flies when you're having fun! 12 years ago we setup a special 'Tutorials' page at rOpenSci, but now we have pkgdown websites for every package in our suite, as well as a dedicated page for use cases. - https://ropensci.org/packages/all/ (Click 'View […]

Coworking and Office Hours next week! Theme: Ship your R package to the R-multiverse! Tuesday October 7th 09:00 Americas Pacific (16:00 UTC) Join @landau, @maelle, and @steffilazerte - General coworking - Learn more about the R-multiverse) - Submit your package to the R-multiverse)! - Chat […]

📝 blog post] rOpenSci Code of Conduct Committee Templates by @yabellini, Natalia Morandeira, and [@mpadge rOpenSci has an established Code of Conduct Committee and process for its functioning. We use templates to support our work, and we share these templates in this blog post. Check out the […]

🚀 Our community call will begin in one hour! R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages 📦 🚀 📆 Monday, 29 September 2025 14:00 UTC with Will Landau 👉 Information + How to join: https://ropensci.org/commcalls/r-multiverse/ #rstats

📣 This is today (one hour from now)! Join us. 🙂 📦 rOpenSci Community Call, R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages 📆 Monday, 29 September 2025 14:00 UTC with @landau Information + How to join: https://ropensci.org/commcalls/r-multiverse/

September news! 🗞️ #rstats 🙌 10 quick tips for making your software outlive your job 🏫 From Ideas to Action: Champions start their training 👋 Request for feedback on our dashboard 🙏 rOpenSci featured on the Science Ouverte blog of Institut Pasteur 📆 Coworking: R-multiverse in October, code […]

[blog] Une introduction en douceur à la science ouverte @steffilazerte@fosstodon parle d'une présentation sur la science ouverte donnée lors d'un congrès d'ornithologie cet été 🐦. En résumé, n'oubliez pas que la science ouverte demande du courage, soyez bienveillant·e envers vous-même, et […]

[blog] A Gentle Introduction to Open Science! @steffilazerte@fosstodon discusses a talk on open science given at an ornithology conference this summer 🐦. In nutshell, don't forget that open science takes courage, be kind to yourself, and keep learning and expanding! […]

📣 Save the date!! Next Community Call: R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages 📦 🚀 📆 Monday, 29 September 2025 14:00 UTC with Will Landau 👉 Information + find your local time + How to join: https://ropensci.org/commcalls/r-multiverse/ #rstats

The latest issue of @rweekly is now live! https://rweekly.org/2025-W39.html This week's highlights: ✏️ All the Ways to Programmatically Edit or Parse R Markdown / Quarto Documents by @rOpenSci 🈂️ I Vibe Coded an R Package by @jonocarroll ☑️ Quality Control for Scanned Multiple-Choice Exams by […]

[blog] All the Ways to Programmatically Edit or Parse R Markdown / Quarto Documents By @maelle @cderv @zkamvar An overview of programmatic ways to parse and edit Markdown files: Markdown, R Markdown, Quarto, Hugo files, you name it […]

Open science orgs are stronger together 💪 @thecarpentries , Open Life Science, @pyOpenSci & @prereview and rOpenSci are convening to move from surviving → thriving. Read how we’re charting a sustainable, collective path forward: https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/09/15/collaboration-communities/ […]

✍️ blog post] Help Us Design a New Git(Hub) Organizational Dashboard by [@mpadge We at rOpenSci are developing an organizational dashboard to provide an overview of all rOpenSci code contributors and their repositories. We are seeking feedback and suggestions on an initial prototype dashboard […]

rOpenSci Coworking and Office Hours coming up in an hour! Today's Theme: Improving accessibility in your work with cohost @spcanelon Tuesday September 9th 14:00 European Central (12:00 UTC) https://ropensci.org/events/coworking-2025-09 #rstats @rstats

[blog] Throw-back Thursday! Time flies when you're having fun! Three years ago we started our very first Champions cohort. This year marks our third! See how it all started with @yabellini... ⏳ Announcing the rOpenSci Champions Program! 📆 September 22, 2022 🔗 […]

Coworking and Office Hours next week! Theme: Improving accessibility in your work Tuesday September 9th 14:00 European Central (12:00 UTC) Join @spcanelon and @steffilazerte - General coworking - Explore where you might improve accessibility in your work - Start making changes to improve […]

✍️ [blog post] rOpenSci Champions Second Cohort: Projects Wrap-Up 🏆 Our second cohort of Champions completed the program. In this blog post, we share each champion’s projects, their achievements, and outreach activities. Read the wrap-up by @yabellini […]

📣 Save the date!! Next Community Call: R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages with @landau 📆 Monday, 29 September 2025 14:00 UTC Information + find your local time + How to join: https://ropensci.org/commcalls/r-multiverse/ 🙏 Please share this event with anyone who may be interested in […]

August news! 🗞️ #rstats ✨ Community call: “R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages” 🎙️ rOpenSci at @useR_conf 🎙️ rOpenSci at @Posit conf 📰 @yabellini on spreadsheets, in Nature 📆 Coworking: accessibility in September, R-multiverse in October 📦 3 new packages: {trud}, {sasquatch} […]

📝 blog] Exploring Open Science, R Packages, and Research Software Development at the CSIDNet AGM 2025 by [@yabellini and Sam Schildhauer Yani and Sam co-lead a session titled “Open Science, R Packages, and Research Software Development” during the 2025 Annual General Meeting of the Climate […]

[blog] Throw-back Thursday! Two for one! 8 years ago @njtierney wrote about his new R package visdat and @dataandme wrote about reviewing it. Interested in visdat (whole dataframe visualizations)? or the review process from different perspectives? Explore the past... 📅 August 22, 2017 ⌛ So […]

rOpenSci Coworking and Office Hours coming up in an hour! Today's Theme: Drawing publication-ready plots using R with cohost @emitanaka Tuesday August 5th 09:00 Australian Western (01:00 UTC) https://ropensci.org/events/coworking-2025-08 #rstats @rstats

Coworking and Office Hours next week! Theme: Drawing publication-ready plots using R Tuesday August 5th 09:00 Australian Western (01:00 UTC) Join @emitanaka and @steffilazerte - General coworking - Work on some figures and plots for your own work - Explore ways of making publication-ready […]

July news! 🗞️ #rstats 👋 Open Science with a Latin American Identity: Meet the New Cohort of the rOpenSci Champions Program 🎙️ rOpenSci at @useR_conf 📆 Coworking 🗺️ New package {sits} 📢 Calls for contributions 🧰 Package Development Corner https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/07/23/news-july-2025/

📝 [Nuevo en el blog] Ciencia abierta con identidad latinoamericana: conocé al nuevo grupo de personas y proyectos del Programa de Campeon(e|a)s de rOpenSci Por Ana Carolina Moreno, Diana García Cortés, PhD, Erick Isaac Navarro Delgado, Guadalupe Pascal, Juan camilo rojas hernandez, Lucía Inés […]

📝 [Blog Post] Open Science with a Latin American Identity: Meet the New Cohort of the rOpenSci Champions Program Introducing 10 new rOpenSci Champions — all from Latin America, representing diverse backgrounds and leading inspiring projects. Each of them is advancing #OpenScience from within […]

rOpenSci Coworking and Office Hours coming up in an hour! Today's Theme: Research Software Engineering and R with cohost Saranjeet Kaur Bhogal Tuesday July 1st 09:00 Americas Pacific (16:00 UTC) https://ropensci.org/events/coworking-2025-07 #rstats @rstats

June news! 🗞️ #rstats 👋 Software review: farewell to editor Julia Gustavsen, welcome to editors Emi Tanaka and Nima Hejazi ! 🚀 R-universe updates 📌 Champions Program 2025 updates 📆 Coworking 🐦 New packages {PFW} 🗒️ Blog posts 🙌 Use cases 📢 Calls for contributions 🧰 Package Development […]

So glad to have @emitanaka.org and @nimahejazi.org join our editorial board for @ropensci.org's software peer review! They’ll help ensure rigorous, friendly, open peer review for software in statistics and data science. ropensci.org/blog/2025/06... #rstats

🚨 News from @rOpenSci! We’re excited to welcome @emitanaka & ‪@nimahejazi.org‬ as new Editors for Statistical Software Peer Review! 🎉 They’ll help ensure rigorous, friendly, open peer review for R packages in stats & data science. Read the full post 👇 🔗 […]

Why is it worthwhile to translate and localize documentation in the age of LLMs? @masalmon.eu and @yabellini.bsky.social have written a FAQ about our approach at @ropensci.org: ropensci.org/blog/2025/06...

Coworking and Office Hours next week! Theme: Research Software Engineering and R Tuesday July 1st 09:00 Americas Pacific (16:00 UTC) Join Saranjeet Kaur Bhogal and @yabellini - General coworking - Look up Research Software Engineering - Cowork independently on work related to R - Chat with […]

📝 [rOpenSci Blog] Multilingual Publishing: Frequently Asked Questions ❔ Will translations make people “lazy” in that they won’t learn English? ❔ Why don’t you rely on automatic translations only? ❔Why don’t you use <insert-name-of-translation-platform> instead of Git and GitHub? ❔Isn’t […]

What a fantastic mentoring team we have for this year's Latin American Open Science Champions program at @ropensci.org! ropensci.org/blog/2025/06...

📝 [Nuevo en el blog] Nuevo equipo de mentor(a|e)s, el mismo espíritu de ciencia abierta Conocé al nuevo equipo de mentor(a|e)s del programa de rOpenSci. Personas de América Latina dedicados a la investigación y el desarrollo de software de investigación comprometidas con la ciencia abierta […]