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Celebrating the rOpenSci Community

https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/09/29/celebrating-ropensci/

Published: September 29, 2026 00:00

Read it in: Español. rOpenSci turns 15 and I’ve been a part of this community for a good chunk of that time. As I reflected on those years, a lot of great memories came to mind, and I realized some of them taught me some lessons that I would love to share.…

rOpenSci News Digest, September 2026

https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/09/28/news-september-2026/

Published: September 28, 2026 00:00

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 Yani and Mark at “Open Communities in the age of AI” rOpenSci community manager Yani…

Más Allá del Código: muestra abierta de los proyectos de nuestros campeon(a|e)s

https://ropensci.org/commcalls/mas-alla-del-codigo-2026/

Published: September 22, 2026 00:00

How to join this free online event with Ana Carolina Moreno, Diana Garcia Cortes, Erick Navarro Delgado, Guadalupe Pascal, Valentina Clavijo Mesa, Monika Avila Marquez, Soledad Araya Orrego and Yanina Bellini Saibene. Más Allá del Código es un encuentro…

Happy Birthday rOpenSci — My Journey from First-Time Developer to Current Opportunities

https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/09/15/birthday-post-sunny/

Published: September 15, 2026 00:00

What? People would fund me and mentor me building my own R package? My first time hearing about rOpenSci was, interestingly, at a bird conference. At an ornithological conference in 2023, I was chatting with my bird friend / colleague Steffi LaZerte, who…

rOpenSci News Digest, August 2026

https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/08/28/news-august-2026/

Published: August 28, 2026 00:00

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 Champions Program update Our Champions are making great progress! 🌟 They’ve now…

From Census Data to Demographic Analysis with ARcenso: A Reproducible Workflow in R

https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/08/10/analisis-demografico-con-arcenso/

Published: August 10, 2026 00:00

Read it in: Español. Population censuses are a key source of information for understanding the composition of populations and how they change across regions within a country. They provide essential evidence for research, the design and evaluation of public…

Windows ARM64 comes to R-universe

https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/08/06/r-universe-winarm/

Published: August 6, 2026 00:00

Attentive package authors already noticed something new in their r-universe page over the past few weeks: R-universe has quietly started building and checking packages for Windows ARM64. https://ropensci.r-universe.dev/pdftools#checktable…

From Peer Review to Mentorship: My rOpenSci Story

https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/07/14/15yo-eunseop-kim/

Published: July 14, 2026 00:00

Getting Involved with rOpenSci I first came to rOpenSci in 2022, though at the time I barely knew what it was. I was getting a statistical package of mine ready to submit to the Journal of Statistical Software, and that is how I was pointed toward rOpenSci…

An API for Everything There Is to Know About Packages

https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/07/08/r-universe-apis-use-cases/

Published: July 8, 2026 00:00

On R-Universe you can discover and learn everything there is to know about R packages. But did you know it does only provide a human-friendly website, but also programmatic access to all information through APIs! Thanks to those APIs you can list…

FOSS Tools for Lazy Editors

https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/07/02/editor-tools/

Published: July 2, 2026 00:00

I recently had the opportunity to learn what the term “Nerd Sniping” meant. Maëlle pointed out a conversation on the rOpenSci Slack about something called Vale, meant for text linting. I’d seen the comment, but honestly hadn’t really understood what it was…