In 2024, we remained committed to open science and open source software.We continued to build a welcoming andinclusive community, through innovation and collaboration. Here are the highlights of the year:R-Universe R-Universe, rOpenSci’s platform for finding and publishing R packages,saw major advancements in 2024,making it an increasingly useful and trusted resource for the wider R community.
Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog.Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci!rOpenSci HQ R-Universe Named an R Consortium Top-Level Project We are excited to announce that R-Universehas been named the R Consortium’s newest Top-Level Project!
Since 2022, rOpenSci has been developing tools and processes to localize and translate our content.As a result of this effort, we created a set of guidelines to assist our community in translating and localizing our resources.What started as an internal challenge has evolved into a collaborative blueprint that we believe can help transform how scientific resources are shared in a multilingual research landscape.
We are excited to announce that R-Universehas been named the R Consortium’s newest Top-Level Project!
Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog.Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci!rOpenSci HQ Looking for Maintainers to Support First-Time Contributors Now open to non-rOpenSci package maintainers! Making your first contribution to Open Source can be both empowering and intimidating.
Thanksgiving is celebrated in many parts of the world.The USA, rOpenSci’s official location, celebrates Thanksgiving this Thursday, 28th November.Giving thanks to contributors is also an important part of open-source software development.Many open-source software projects use the allcontributors.org system to acknowledge contributions, which includes One strong motivation for allcontributors.org is to “Recognize all contributors, including those
Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup!
Do you remember your first contribution to open source?Or are you still waiting to make it? Contributing to open source can be very rewarding, but also incredibly intimidating.When we asked about first time contributions on the rOpenSci Slack,people recalled the challenges and mistakes they made, but mostly how much they learned from and enjoyed that experience.For open source maintainers, contributions can also lead to mixed feelings,as
Exciting News! The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has awarded rOpenSci a new grant to foster sustainable scientific software as a pillar of Open Science in Latin America by building capacity and community. With this $340K grant, we’re planning to launch a Spanish-language version of our Champions Program, along with other new initiatives to make sustainable software development more accessible to researchers across the region.
Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog.Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! rOpenSci HQ Community call recording: Navigating the R ecosystem using R-universe Video and resources. Learn more about R-Universe and how you can use it to improve your R package development workflow.
