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 🔗rOpenSci at LatinR We proudly continued supporting LatinR as a community partner in 2025. Here we share a list of resources and recordings for the tutorials and talks delivered by our staff and community memebers at LatinR.
rOpenSci makes heavy use of GitHub for our projects and services, including software peer-review.GitHub is by far the most widely used git or code-hosting platform, and the combination of its popularity and freemium services have made it central to open-source and R communities.However, for a variety of reasons, some of our community members or potential members may prefer or need to use other platforms.These reasons may include concerns about
We are experiencing a programming revolution, with the democratization of artificial intelligence, but also with the creation and improvement of more traditional software tools to improve your code: local, free, deterministic.
As a package maintainer, you might want to get some numbers or impressions on the usage of your package for various reasons: getting some confirmation that your work is useful, prioritizing development on specific features of your software, helping justify a request for funding. Don’t get your hopes too high: there is no perfect solution nor measure.
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 🔗rOpenSci at LatinR We’re excited to continue supporting LatinR as a community partner in 2025. Registration is now open for the free LatinR Conference, bringing together researchers, developers, and open science advocates from across the region.
🔗Introduction rOpenSci curates packages developed in the R programming language and also offers a well-established peer review process for R packages.
🔗Why we created Computo The idea of Computo was born out of a desire to foster a deeper scientific understanding as well as a need to address several challenges in the current scientific publishing landscape, especially within statistics and machine learning.
Will Landau recently introduced the R-multiverse, a new way to publish R packages, during an rOpenSci community call. 1 After that event, a coworking session allowed even more discussion between Will, his R-multiverse fellow administrators Jeroen Ooms and Maëlle Salmon, and community members.
Our own dev guide states Recognizing the diverse forms of contributions to our mission is very important to us:we like thanking package reviewers and more generally all package contributors, organizations as well as individuals. We have recently extended our efforts to acknowledging the different roles there are when publishing a blog post.
Are you the mother goat or the wolf?Consumers of your online content might care!Be it on social media or other platforms, your profile can sometimes be “verified”.What does it mean? How does one get a green checkmark where it matters?Here’s a primer on domain verification.
At rOpenSci, our Code of Conduct (CoC) committee works to support a healthy, welcoming, and inclusive community. A big part of this work is making sure that the processes we follow are transparent, consistent, and fair. Over the years, we’ve developed a set of templates that guide us through different stages of incident response and reporting.