rOpenSci

👋 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 standards.

Find Mark at:
🐘 @mpadge
💻 github.com/mpadge
🌐 mpadge.eu

#MaintainerMonth #rOpenSci #RStats

👋 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.

Fin Erika at:
📸 erikaris15
💻 github.com/erikaris
🔗 linkedin.com/in/erika-siregar

#MaintainerMonth #rOpenSci #RStats #RLadies

🎉 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 #RStats #DataScience #OpenData #OpenSource

👋 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 to the arXiv repository of electronic preprints for computer science, mathematics, physics, quantitative biology, quantitative finance & statistics.

🐘 @kbroman
💻 github.com/kbroman
🌐 kbroman.org
#MaintainerMonth #rOpenSci #RStats

👋 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 and endangered species.

Find Will at:
🌐 williamgearty.com
💻 github.com/willgearty
🔗 linkedin.com/in/willgearty

#MaintainerMonth #rOpenSci #RStats

👋 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

#MaintainerMonth #rOpenSci #RStats

#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
🌐 fblpalmeira.github.io

#rOpenSci #RStats

✍️ 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.

https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/05/13/anniversary2026/

#OpenScience #RStats #Anniversary

👋 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
🔗 linkedin.com/in/moritz-hennicke-65048533

#MaintainerMonth #rOpenSci #RStats

#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 hydrological indices and statistics from “tidy” data. It includes a function for graphing georeferenced results and cartographic information.

Find Pao at:
🌐 https://paocorrales.github.io/
💻 https://github.com/paocorrales
🐘 @paocorrales

👋 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 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
💻 github.com/SoyAndrea

#rOpenSci #RStats

👋 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
🔗 linkedin.com/in/victor-ordu-868a0b3

#MaintainerMonth #rOpenSci #RStats

👋 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
🐙 https://github.com/caropradier

#MaintainerMonth #rOpenSci #RStats

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
🔗 https://linkedin.com/in/marcelo-s-perlin-11b333201

#MaintainerMonth #rOpenSci #RStats

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
🔗 https://linkedin.com/in/juliasilge

#MaintainerMonth #rOpenSci #RStats

👋 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
🔗 https://linkedin.com/in/danielvartan

#MaintainerMonth #rOpenSci #RStats

👋 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
🔗 https://linkedin.com/in/steffi-lazerte

#MaintainerMonth #rOpenSci #RStats

🗒️ [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.

https://ropensci.org/es/blog/2026/05/26/mentoras_es-2026/

#RStats #Mentoring #FOSS #RSE

👋 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
🔗 https://linkedin.com/in/peterdesmet

#MaintainerMonth #rOpenSci #RStats

👋 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
🐙 https://github.com/RonaldVisser

#MaintainerMonth #rOpenSci #RStats

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!

📝 ¡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/

#RStats #RSE #OpenScience #CienciaAbierta

🎉 ¡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 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-2025/

#RStats #RstatsES #OpenScience #OpenData #RSE

📝 [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, invitar y acompañar a quienes puedan contribuir y hacerse cargo de tu paquete.

https://ropensci.org/es/blog/2026/01/27/new-maintainer/

#RSE #RStats #RStatsES #FOSS #DesarrolloPaquetes

✍️ [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.

https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/01/27/new-maintainer/

#RStats #packageDevelopment #FOSS #RSE

🎉 ¡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

This is the list of rOpenSci's members talks:

🎙️ Spanish

- Herramientas para usar LLMs en R by @LuisDVerde

- R-multiverse by @landau, @maelle and @yabellini

- Mejor código, sin esfuerzos, sin siquiera IA by @maelle, Hugo Gruson and Etienne Bacher

- Estrategias de divulgación para proyectos de software e infraestructuras abiertas by @alejandrabellini and @yabellini

- Comunidades de líderes de código abierto by @yabellini and @noamross

- Datos públicos y Software Libre by @pablote

- rcdo para analizar datos climáticos con R by @eliocamp

- ICC para evaluar confiabilidad entre evaluadores by Francisco Cardozo

- Integrando listas taxonómicas en Quarto y R Markdown: Un caso para taxnames by Miguel Alvarez

- Metasurvey by Mauro Loprete.

📌 English

- R-universe Q&A @jeroenooms and @maelle

The complete list of talks: https://latinr.org/en/

#RStats #RStatsES #RStatsPT #OpenData #OpenScience #RSE #FOSS #analytics

2/2

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

1/2

📣 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 #PackageDevelopment #FOSS

📝 [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 templates here: https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/09/30/coc-templates/

#Community #CoC #CommunityManager

🚨 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 👇
🔗 https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/06/25/editors2025/
#rstats #openscience #softwarepeerreview #statistics #rOpenSci

🚀 [Nuevo en el blog] Puentes y Comunidades. Mi Camino como Campeona de rOpenSci por Andrea Gomez Vargas.

Aprende cómo Andrea desarrolló el paquete ARcenso y lo compartió con la comunidad R. Esta historia trata sobre la construcción de herramientas y conexiones. Lee cómo el programa rOpenSci Champions ayudó a convertir una idea en un proyecto apoyado por la comunidad.

👉 https://ropensci.org/es/blog/2025/05/15/puentes-comunidades-campeones-ropensci/

#rstats #rOpenSci #CienciaAbierta #Comunidad

🚀 New blog post: Bridges and Communities. My Journey as an rOpenSci Champion by Andrea Gomez Vargas

Learn how Andrea developed ARcenso package and shared it with the R community. This story is about building tools and connections. Read how the rOpenSci Champions program helped turn an idea into a community-supported project.

👉 https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/05/15/puentes-comunidades-campeones-ropensci/

#rstats #rOpenSci #OpenScience #Community

En una hora arrancamos!

📦 Venite a aprender herramientas para desarrollar paquetes de R y aprender sobre el programa de campeones de rOpenSci

📆 El 23 de abril a las 17:00 UTC-3

Info + link to join: https://ropensci.org/events/rladies-champions-2025/

#RStats #DataScience #CienciaDeDatos #DatosAbiertos #OpenData

Evento: Desarrollando Paquetes de R con ayuda de rOpenSci

Junto con R-Ladies Santa Rosa y R-Ladies Rcia-Ctes el 23 de abril a las 17:00 UTC-3

📦 Introducción al desarrollo de paquetes y al Programa de Campeones en español y con foco en América Latina.

+info + link to join: https://ropensci.org/events/rladies-champions-2025/

#RStats #DataScience #CienciaDeDatos #DatosAbiertos #OpenData

¡El poder de la ciencia abierta! 🚀

📦 La galería de proyectos de rOpenSci está llena de iniciativas increíbles que están sumando a la investigación abierta y reproducible.

🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏽🙋‍♂️🙋🏿‍♀️Si querés ser parte de esta comunidad podés inspirarte para ser Campeon(a|e)s o Mentores(a|e)s:[ https://champions-program.ropensci.org/galeria/](https://champions-program.ropensci.org/galeria/)

#RStats #DataScience #CienciaDeDatos #DatosAbiertos #OpenData

📝 [Nuevo en el blog] Apoyar a los mentores y mentoras de rOpenSci con herramientas prácticas por @yabellini

La mentoría está en el corazón de lo que hace de rOpenSci una comunidad. Hemos desarrollado un conjunto de recursos para ayudar a los mentores y mentoras en el Programa de Campeon(e|a)s. En este post, te explicamos lo que hemos creado y te mostramos cómo estos recursos pueden ayudarte también en tu labor de mentoría.

https://ropensci.org/es/blog/2025/04/08/mentoring-tools/

#Comunidades #STEAM #DatosAbiertos #CienciaAbierta #SoftwareLibre

¡Llegó el día! 🎉 🎉
Se abre el llamado al programa de campeon(a|e)s en español edición 2025. En este blogspot tenes todos los detalles para participar:

📝 https://ropensci.org/es/blog/2025/03/10/campeones-america-latina/

Y agenda el miércoles 12/03 que tendremos una evento con campeones y mentores que contarán su experienca en cohortes anteriores.

📹 https://ropensci.org/es/commcalls/champions-latino-2025/

Compartí esta info con tu comunidad. Ayudanos a ser muchas mas personas.

#RSE #DatosAbiertos #SoftwareLibre #CienciaAbierta #CienciaDeDatos

5/5 Hay muchas maneras de formar parte de nuestra comunidad. Si estás interesada y quieres conocer más puedes leer esta hoja de consejos sobre cómo formar parte de rOpenSci 👉 https://ropensci.org/es/blog/2022/09/13/contributing-ropensci-es/

#8demarzo #DIW2025 #CienciaDeDatos #DatosAbiertos #CienciaAbierta #SoftwareLibre

Our community manager @yabellini will be teaching From Spreadsheet to #RStats as part of the Research Software Camp by the @SoftwareSaved

Link to register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/research-software-camp-from-spreadsheets-to-r-tickets-1056738235509

Part of the RSC: Digital Skills for Research Technical Staff collection

#OSS #CommunityCollaboration #RSE

📝 New on the blog: Deposits In The Wild

A post about using R to create FAIR data for complex projects by @collinschwantes

https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/09/17/deposits-in-the-wild/

#RStats #OpenScience #OSS #Deposit #Library #FAIR #OpenData

🐞 Las mejoras (y traducciones) en los mensajes de error hacen que trabajar con #eph sea más intuitivo.

⚡️⚡️ Redujimos las dependencias, recurriendo más a R base. ¡El paquete es más ágil y eficiente que nunca!

🧹 Reestructuramos las funciones para un código más limpio, eficiente y legible.

📏 El código ahora sigue las pautas de estilo de tidyverse, lo que facilita su lectura y colaboración.

3/n

7/8 📦 Looking to submit your package?

If you have an R package that you believe should undergo peer review, submit it to our open peer review system: https://github.com/ropensci/software-review

Let’s ensure it meets the highest standards of quality and usability! #PeerReviewWeek #OpenSource #SoftwareReview

3/8 🛠️ What makes rOpenSci’s peer review special?

Our process goes beyond traditional academic peer review. It focuses on code quality, documentation, and community standards: https://devguide.ropensci.org/

It’s a collaborative effort, with authors, reviewers and editors growing through the process. #SoftwareReview #OpenScience

🌟 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

🌟 The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative awards funds to rOpenSci for sustainable research software development with focus in Latin America. 🌎

This support will help us to foster open science and research software in particular, by building community and capacity across the region. Learn more in our latest blog post:

🔗 https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/10/10/czi-latam-grant/

#OpenScience #CZI #LatinAmerica #SustainableSoftware #rOpenSci #OSS #RStats #RSE

8/8 🤝 Get involved in software peer review!

Want to contribute to open science? rOpenSci is always looking for reviewers who are passionate about open-source software and reproducibility.

At rOpenSci, we see every review as an opportunity for growth and collaboration. Join us and make a difference! https://airtable.com/app8dssb6a7PG6Vwj/shrnfDI2S9uuyxtDw

#PeerReviewWeek #SoftwarePeerReview