rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 13/10/2026🎥 Missed *Beyond the Code*? Watch the recording of our community call and discover projects from our Champions 2025-2026 cohort, spanning package development, peer review, science communication, and more. 📚 Video, notes & projects […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 012 2
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 13/10/2026🎥 ¿Te perdiste *Más allá del código*? Ya podés ver la grabación de nuestra "conversaciónes con la comunidad" y descubrir los proyectos de nuestra cohorte de Campeon(a|e)s: desarrollo de paquetes, revisión por pares y divulgación. 📚 Video, notas y proyectos […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 002 2
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 12/10/2026⏰ ¡Hoy a las 15:00 (UTC), en una hora, empieza “Más Allá del Código”! Conocé los proyectos finales de nuestra cohorte, el impacto técnico de cada herramienta y las oportunidades que abrieron. Sumate, preguntá en vivo y celebremos a la comunidad. 🔗 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 000 0
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 11/10/2026📣 ¡Mañana lunes 12 a las 15:00 (UTC) es “Más Allá del Código”! Un encuentro abierto para conocer los proyectos finales de nuestra cohorte de campeonas y campeones: paquetes de software, divulgación, becas y colaboraciones. Hacé tus preguntas en vivo y […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 011 1
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 30/09/2026📌 Comm Call Beyond the Code: an open showcase of our champions' projects Join us to hear about the R packages they created, improved, and reviewed, the outreach that brought them to their communities, and the opportunities these projects opened up. 📅 Monday […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 002 2
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 30/09/2026📌 Más Allá del Código: muestra abierta de los proyectos de nuestros campeon(a|e)s Te invitamos a esta conversación con la comunidad donde vas a conocer paquetes de R creados, mejorados y revisados, actividades de divulgación y las oportunidades que se abrieron […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 010 1
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 29/09/2026✍️ [blog] Celebrando la comunidad de rOpenSci por Mauro Lepore #RStats En el marco del 15.º aniversario de rOpenSci, Mauro reflexiona sobre su recorrido en la comunidad y comparte cinco aprendizajes sobre colaboración, contribución, amabilidad y la importancia […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 010 1
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 29/09/2026✍️ [blog] Celebrating the rOpenSci Community by Mauro Lepore #RStats For rOpenSci’s 15th anniversary, Mauro reflects on his journey with the community and shares five lessons about collaboration, contribution, kindness, and the importance of human connections […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 011 1
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 18/09/2026🧵 1/5 It's the last day of Peer Review Week! Time to talk about rOpenSci's software peer review: open, constructive, non-adversarial review for the scientific #RStats packages researchers rely on. 🧪📦 #PeerReviewWeek 141 4
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 15/09/2026✍️ [blog] Happy Birthday rOpenSci — My Journey from First-Time Developer to Current Opportunities by Yi-Chin Sunny Tseng Learn how the rOpenSci Champions Program helped Yi-Chin Sunny Tseng grow from a first-time R package developer into an open science […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 000 0
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 14/07/2026✍️ [blog] From Peer Review to Mentorship: My rOpenSci Story by Eunseop Kim 🌟 We're kicking off our 15th anniversary story series! 🌟 In our first post, Eunseop Kim shares how a software peer review unexpectedly led to becoming an rOpenSci reviewer and later a […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 012 2
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 10/06/2026📝 Once voces latinoamericanas para la ciencia abierta: la nueva cohorte de Campeon(a|e)s rOpenSci 2026 Descubre más sobre esta cohorte en este nuevo artículo escrito por todas las personas participantes de la nueva promoción […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 042 4
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 10/06/2026✍️ [blog] Eleven Latin American Voices for Open Science: The New Cohort of Champions rOpenSci 2026 Find out more about this Champions Program cohort in this new blog post by all the new cohort participants: ropensci.org/blog/2026/06/09/champi… #RStats #FOSS 053 5
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 29/05/2026💻️ Thank you to the 37 maintainers from 15 countries who agreed to participate in this #MaintainerMonth spotlights 👏 👏 These people maintain more than 50 packages that collectively serve thousands of researchers and data practitioners worldwide. 📦 🔬 And thanks […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 053 5
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 29/05/2026¡Meet Guada Pascal 🇦🇷! #MaintainerMonth #RStats She is a Data Science Researcher based in Argentina. As an rOpenSci Champion, she developed matildaNLP, a package that includes a corpus of Spanish text from the Matilda initiative. Find her at: 🌐 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 021 2
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 29/05/2026Meet Ezekiel Adebayo Ogundepo 🇳🇬 #MaintainerMonth Ezekiel is a data scientist with 10+ years of experience in interpreting and analyzing data in a fast-paced environment. As a rOpenSci Champion, Ezekiel worked on bulkreadr, an #RStats package to simplify and […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 022 2
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 28/05/2026Today's #MaintainerMonth Highlight is Austin Koontz 🇺🇸 Research Consultant for the Hoban Conservation Lab, studying conservation genetics in oaks with a background in bioinformatics and plant population genetics. Is the maintainer of SymbiotaR2 package that […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 000 0
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 28/05/2026Meet Mauro Loprete 🇺🇾! #MaintainerMonth #RStats Mauro is a Data Engineer, a Teacher Assistant, a Statistician, and a Databricks Data Engineer Professional. As an #rOpenSci 's Champion, Mauro works on metasurvey package that provides a step-based pipeline for […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 031 3
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 27/05/2026#MaintainerMonth Highlight: Bilikisu Wunmi Olatunji 🇳🇬! Bilikisu is a Data Scientist and an R Shiny developer. She is a RUG and a RLadies+ chapter organizer. As an rOpenSci Champions she developed and maintains chartkickR, an htmlwidget that seamlessly […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 052 5
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 27/05/2026Meet Marcos Prunelo 🇦🇷 He is a professor at the School of Statistics at the National University of Rosario, Argentina. As an rOpenSci Champion, Marcos developed Kare,l a package that implements a tool aimed at teaching fundamental and general programming […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 172 7
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 26/05/2026👋 Meet Will Pearse! 🇬🇧 Associate Professor of Evolutionary Ecology at Imperial College London. He maintains {suppdata} for rOpenSci: a package that lets researchers download supplementary data files directly from published scientific articles across major […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 072 7
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 26/05/2026👋 Meet Alex Koiter! 🇨🇦 Professor & Environmental Scientist at Brandon University focused on soil erosion, watershed management, sediment dynamics, and geomorphology. He maintains {mbquartR}, a package for working with Manitoba's quarter-section land survey […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 033 3
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 25/05/2026Today, meet Haydée Svab 🇧🇷! She is the Executive Director of Open Knowledge Brasil, R-Ladies São Paulo Co-organizer, and a Data Scientist at ASK-AR. Haydée also worked on urban mobility, and as a participant of the rOpenSci Champions Program, she developed the […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 032 3
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 25/05/2026👋 Meet Will Landau! 🇺🇸 Statistician and software developer. He maintains {targets} and several related packages to the targets ecosystem. Target is a pipeline toolkit that makes data analysis in R faster and fully reproducible by tracking dependencies and […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 072 7
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 22/05/2026👋 Meet Erick Navarro Delgado! 🇨🇦🇲🇽 PhD candidate in Bioinformatics at the University of British Columbia. He maintains {RAMEN} for rOpenSci, a package for identifying associations between repeated environmental exposures and molecular outcomes, supporting […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 020 2
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 22/05/2026👋 Meet Yi-Chin Sunny Tseng! 🇨🇦 🇹🇼 Bioacoustic ecologist with a career centered on bird-related research. She maintains {bbsTaiwan}, a package she developed as rOpenSci's Champions. The bbsTaiwan package is for accessing and analyzing data from Taiwan's Breeding […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 032 3
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 21/05/2026👋 Meet Sam Albers! 🇨🇦 Data Scientist and maintainer of {tidyhydat} for rOpenSci. The package provides access to historical and real-time national hydrometric data from the Water Survey of Canada data sources and then applies tidy data principles. Sam also helps […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 030 3
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 21/05/2026👋 Today's highlight is Jeroen Ooms! 🇳🇱 Staff Research Engineer at rOpenSci, tidyverse team member, and project lead for R-universe. He also maintains {magick}, {pdftools}, and {gert} for rOpenSci. Find Jeroen at: 🐘 @jeroenooms 💻 github.com/jeroen 🌐 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 051 5
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 20/05/2026👋 Meet Micha Silver! 🇮🇱 Postdoc at Ben Gurion University (Sde Boker campus), working with spatial data, satellite imagery, and remote sensing. He maintains {rOPTRAM} for #rOpenSci: a package implementing the OPtical TRApezoid Model for estimating soil moisture […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 040 4
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 20/05/2026👋 Today meet Tad Dallas! 🇺🇸 Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina and maintainer of {helminthR} for rOpenSci. The package provides access to the London Natural History Museum's host-parasite database, one of the largest host-parasite databases […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 050 5
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 19/05/2026📢 The call for submissions for #LatinR2026 has been extended! There’s still time to share your projects, experiences, and work with the R community in Latin America 💜 🗓️ New deadline: June 1 ✍️ openreview.net/group?id=LATIN-R.com/2026/Conference 🔗 latinr.org 📍 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 066 6
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 19/05/2026👋 Meet Jonathan Keane! Engineer at Posit, formerly at Ursa Computing, Voltron Data, and Socure. Jon maintains {dittodb} for rOpenSci: a package that makes testing database code easy by recording and replaying real database interactions, so tests run without […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 063 6
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 19/05/2026👋 Meet Sehrish Kanwal! 🇦🇺 Bioinformatics scientist at the University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research. As part of the Champions program, she maintains {RNAsum} for rOpenSci: a package for summarising and visualising RNA-seq data analysis results […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 042 4
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 18/05/2026👋 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 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 061 6
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 18/05/2026👋 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 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 031 3
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 15/05/2026👋 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 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 072 7
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 15/05/2026👋 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 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 173 7
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 14/05/2026👋 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 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 053 5
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 14/05/2026#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 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 065 6
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 13/05/2026✍️ 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 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 13412 34
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 13/05/2026👋 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 🔗 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 061 6
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 13/05/2026#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 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 063 6
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 12/05/2026👋 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 094 9
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 12/05/2026#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 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 087 8
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 11/05/2026👋 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 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 063 6
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 11/05/2026👋 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 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 093 9
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 08/05/2026Today 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 041 4
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 08/05/2026👋 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: 🌐 msperlin.com 💻 github.com/msperlin 🔗 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 030 3
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 07/05/2026Today 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 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 1146 14
rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 07/05/2026👋 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 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 062 6