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👋 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 .gitignore files for your project.
Find Philippe at:
🐘 @philmassicotte
💻 github.com/PMassicotte
🔗 linkedin.com/in/philippe-massicotte-725214260 -
👋 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 .gitignore files for your project.
Find Philippe at:
🐘 @philmassicotte
💻 github.com/PMassicotte
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#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 Potential for Conflict Index among stakeholders.
Find her at:
🔗 in/francesca-palmeira-06393725a
💻 github.com/fblpalmeira
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#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 Potential for Conflict Index among stakeholders.
Find her at:
🔗 in/francesca-palmeira-06393725a
💻 github.com/fblpalmeira
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#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 Potential for Conflict Index among stakeholders.
Find her at:
🔗 in/francesca-palmeira-06393725a
💻 github.com/fblpalmeira
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#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 Potential for Conflict Index among stakeholders.
Find her at:
🔗 in/francesca-palmeira-06393725a
💻 github.com/fblpalmeira
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#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 Potential for Conflict Index among stakeholders.
Find her at:
🔗 in/francesca-palmeira-06393725a
💻 github.com/fblpalmeira
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✍️ 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.
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👋 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
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👋 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
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#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 R package is designed to democratize access to official data from Argentina’s National Population Censuses, produced by INDEC
Find Andrea at:
🌐 soyandrea.github.io
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👋 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 its constituent parts.
Find him at:
🌐 victorordu.wordpress.com
💻 github.com/BroVic
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👋 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 her at:
🌐 https://cpradier.netlify.app
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Today we’re featuring Maëlle Salmon! 🇫🇷
R(esearch) Software Engineer and Blogger. She maintains {saperlipopette}, {babelquarto}, and {babeldown} for rOpenSci.
🐘 @maelle
💻 github.com/maelle
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👋 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
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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 needed in analyzing such surveys.
🐘 https://fosstodon.org/@juliasilge
💻 https://github.com/juliasilge
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👋 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 individuals’ sleep behavior.
🌐 https://danielvartan.com
💻 https://github.com/danielvartan
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👋 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 weather data from Canada.
🐘 https://fosstodon.org/@steffilazerte
💻 https://github.com/steffilazerte
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🗒️ [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.
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✍️ [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.
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👋 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 Data Packages.
🦋 @peterdesmet.com
💻 https://github.com/peterdesmet
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👋 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:
🐘 @RonaldVisser
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May is #MaintainerMonth!
Meet the humans behind your favorite #RStats packagesAll month, we will spotlight the maintainers behind rOpenSci's software ecosystem.
Stay tuned to meet them!
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📝 ¡Postulaciones abiertas para el programa de Campeon(a|e)s!
Erick Isaac Navarro Delgado comparte su experiencia en el programa y cómo este le permitió mejorar su paquete y llevar su proyecto a una nueva etapa dentro del ecosistema de ciencia abierta.
https://vimeo.com/1160231637📅 Postulaciones abiertas hasta el 20 de febrero
Toda la info aquí: https://ropensci.org/es/blog/2026/01/12/programachamps2026/
👉 Mira el evento completo: https://ropensci.org/es/commcalls/champions-latino-2026/
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✍️ [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.
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🎉 ¡Abrió el nuevo llamado al Programa de Campeon(e|a)s 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 comunidades.
📅 Fecha límite para postular: 20 de febrero
👉 Aquí toda la info: https://ropensci.org/es/blog/2026/01/12/programachamps2026/Si estás desarrollando software científico abierto y querés hacerlo crecer con acompañamiento y comunidad, esta es tu oportunidad.
#OpenScience #ResearchSoftware #GlobalSouth #RSE #CienciaAbierta
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rOpenSci | All the Ways to Programmatically Edit or Parse R Markdown / Quarto Documents
Argh only just seeing this doc now, wish I'd found it a couple of months ago 🤣 I was generating static Rmd from one with dynamically generated chunks. I ended up using whisker pulling in external R code templates supplemented with knitr hooks to do some extra customisation during chunk processing.
https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/09/18/markdown-programmatic-parsing/
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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 el proyecto TRACE-LAC / Epiverso para conectar el desarrollo de software con la salud pública
🎓 Tutorials by rOpenSci members:
📌 ¡Miércoles, Git! Manejo de errores en Git y no morir en el intento — @maelle , @yabellini. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.cl/e/miercoles-git-manejo-de-errores-en-git-y-no-morir-en-el-intento-tickets-1937068908249
📌 Introducción a #Tidymodels — Francisco Cardozo & Edgar Ruiz. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.cl/e/introducion-a-tidymodels-tickets-1962543491413
📌 Automatización de workflows en R y Python con #targets y #Snakemake — Diana García. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.cl/e/automatizacion-de-workflows-en-r-y-python-con-targets-y-snakemake-tickets-1936131664929
📌 ¿Qué historia vas a contar hoy Herramientas para una comunicación eficaz — Alejandra Bellini. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.cl/e/que-historia-vas-a-contar-hoy-herramientas-para-una-comunicacion-eficaz-tickets-1891497192019
📌 Coding with #AI in RStudio — Juan Cruz Rodríguez & @LuisDVerde. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.cl/e/coding-with-ai-in-rstudio-tickets-1962817615325
List with all tutorials here: https://latinr.org/en/
#RStats #RStatsES #openScience #RSE #OpenData #FOSS #DataScience #Analytics
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📣 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/
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🌟 La Chan Zuckerberg Initiative otorga fondos a rOpenSci para el desarrollo de software de investigación sostenible, con enfoque en América Latina. 🌎
Este financiamiento nos ayudará a impulsar la ciencia abierta y el software de investigación en particular, construyendo comunidad y capacidades en toda la región.
Conoce más en nuestro último blog post:
🔗 https://ropensci.org/es/blog/2024/10/10/czi-america-latina-grant/#CienciaAbierta #CZI #AméricaLatina #SoftwareSostenible #rOpenSci #SoftwareLibre #SoftwareAbierto #RSE #RStatsES