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📌 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, and the opportunities these projects opened up 📅 Monday, October 12 🕛 15:00 UTC 🗣️ In Spanish 👉 ropensci.org/es/commcalls... #RStats #OpenSource

Project's Hexstickers: metasurvey, votosCL, EcoCam, censor, Mapping Pseudo Scenarios, mateildaNLP, RAMEN, SLCF, MBCdata

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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 10h

📌 Más Allá del Código: muestra abierta de los proyectos de nuestros campeon(a|e)s Te invitamos a esta conversación con la comunidad: 📅 Lunes 12 de octubre 🕛 15:00 UTC (12:00 UTC-3) 💬 En español 👉 ropensci.org/commcalls/ma... #RStats #OpenSource #CienciaAbierta

Hexstickers de los proyectos: metasurvey, votosCL, EcoCam, Censobr, Mapping Pseudo scenarios, matildaNLP, RAMEN, SLCF, MBCdata

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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 29/09/2026

Coworking and Office Hours next week! Theme: Writing Tests & Testing in R Tuesday October 6th 09:00 Americas Pacific (16:00 UTC) Join Olivier Leroy and @yabellini.bsky.social - Coworking - Add some tests to your work or packages - Chat and discuss our theme! ropensci.org/events/cowor...

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Social Coworking and Office Hours - Writing Tests & Testing in R

Try your hand at testing in R, come to socialize, or work on anything you need to get done!

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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 29/09/2026

✍️[blog] Celebrando la comunidad de rOpenSci #RStats En el marco del 15 aniversario de rOpenSci, Mauro Lepore reflexiona sobre su recorrido y comparte 5 lecciones sobre colaboración, contribución, amabilidad y la importancia de las conexiones humanas en la era de la IA ropensci.org/es/blog/2026...

Foto de perfil de Mauro sonriendo en un marco de pixel art con globos de cumpleaños coloridos, una carpeta, la fechita del mouse y algunas chispas brillantes con el texto rOpenSci 15 years. Mauro Lepore.

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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 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 & shares 5 lessons about collaboration, contribution, kindness, and the importance of human connections in the age of AI ropensci.org/blog/2026/09...

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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 28/09/2026

September news #RStats ✍️ Champions Program Comm call 📆 Openscapes comm call “Open Communities in the age of AI” 📦️️ New packages {ciecl}, {brapiR2} 🎂 15 years: Yi-Chin Sunny Tseng's blog post 🎉 LatinR 2026 in Medellín, Colombia 📆 Coworking 🧰 Package development corner ropensci.org/blog/2026/09...

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rOpenSci News Digest, September 2026

Champions Program; Openscapes comm call; Quinceañera; new packages and package news

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 21/09/2026

⏰ Could you be our next Carpentries Board Director? We are inviting community members to self-nominate for up to 4 community-elected Board seats. We are looking for expertise in tech, financial sustainability, partnerships, and global contexts. Nominations close on 9 Oct 2026 (AoE)

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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 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

Cover rOpenSci Packages. Development, Maintenance, and Peer Review. A production line of packages with people chcking different aspects of those packages.

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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 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 her grow from a first-time R package developer into an open science contributor. ropensci.org/blog/2026/09... #RStats

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LatinR Conf @latinrconf.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

¡Ya está abierto el registro para LatinR 2026! Después de tanto prepararnos, ¡ya podemos empezar a contar los días! 🥳 📍11–13 de noviembre | Medellín, Colombia 🇨🇴 👉️ ¡Registrate y vení a compartir LatinR con nosotrxs! www.eventbrite.com.ar/e/1998690018... ¡Nos vemos en Medellín! 🧉 ☕️ 💻️ ✨️

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LatinR 2026 | Conferencia Latinoamericana sobre Uso de R en I+D

Súmate a esta edición en línea de LatinR, la conferencia latinoamericana sobre uso de R en investigación y desarrollo.

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Steffi LaZerte @steffilazerte.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Informative @ropensci.org coworking today! We coworked and got to know @sortee.bsky.social with co-host @eivimeycook.bsky.social. We chatted about fun SORTEE events (inc. the upcoming conference), communities working together, and future visions. Resources: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Coworking - 2026-09 - Getting to know SORTEE

rOpenSci Social Coworking and Office Hours September 2026 - Getting to Know SORTEE Thank you for joining our Social Co-working and Office Hours. We’re delighted to have you here. No sign-ups needed! ...

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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 03/09/2026

1/2 [blog] Throw-back Thursday! 🎂 rOpenSci just celebrated its 15th anniversary, and a lot has changed! 10 years ago @karthik.io advertised for a postdoc to support rOpenSci. The way we work, the tools, and even the team have changed and grown, but the same values are still at the heart.

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Isabella Velásquez @ivelasq3.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Tired of "it worked on my computer" breaking your #RStats projects? Tomorrow on the Data Science Lab, @rpodcast.bsky.social is going live to demo {rix}, an @ropensci.org package that uses Nix to build reproducible R environments. I caught a sneak peek and it's WOW! Join us! https:// pos.it/dslab

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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 28/08/2026

August news 🗞️ #RStats ✍️ Champions Program update 🚀 R-Universe updates 📦️ New packages {lakefetch}, {galamm}, {EpiStrainDynamics}, {RAMEN} 🎂 Quinceañera: celebrating 15 years together 📆 Coworking 🗒️ Blog posts 🧰 Package development corner ropensci.org/blog/2026/08...

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rOpenSci News Digest, August 2026

Champions Program; R-Universe update; Quinceañera; new packages and package news

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Edward R. Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It’s me! Excited to discuss all things open science and @sortee.bsky.social

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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 25/08/2026

Coworking next week! Theme: Getting to Know SORTEE Tues Sep 1st 14:00 Europe Central (12:00 UTC) Join @eivimeycook.bsky.social and @steffilazerte.bsky.social - General coworking - Visit SORTEE (sortee.org) - Chat with Ed and others and discuss our theme! ropensci.org/events/cowor... #RStats

rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 17/08/2026

Two rOpenSci stories featured in episode 238 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast! 🎙️ We’re always so happy to see rOpenSci work featured on the show. 💚 Thanks to the podcast team for the shout-outs! 🙏 Go give the episode a listen! 🎧 #RStats

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Andrea @goandre.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Nueva nota de blog sobre ARcenso 🇦🇷🌟, pasen y lean 💜

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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 10/08/2026

✍️ [blog] De datos censales a análisis demográficos con ARcenso: un flujo de trabajo reproducible en #RStats por Andrea y Emanuel Este artículo muestra cómo usar ARcenso, un paquete desarrollado en el marco de nuestro Programa de Campeon(a|e)s. ropensci.org/es/blog/2026...

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De datos censales a análisis demográficos con ARcenso: un flujo de trabajo reproducible en R

Cómo acceder y procesar los censos argentinos de 1970 y 1980 desde R

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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 10/08/2026

✍️ [blog] From Census Data to Demographic Analysis with ARcenso: A Reproducible Workflow in #RStats by Andrea and Emanuel This post showcases how to access, harmonise, and analyse Argentina's census data with ARcenso, an R package developed through our Champions Program ropensci.org/blog/2026/08...

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

How to Access and Process the 1970 and 1980 Argentine Censuses Using R

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 07/08/2026

This story absolutely brightened my day. So glad @ropensci.org got to play a small role in these fantastic student projects from Brooklyn College.

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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 07/08/2026

[blog] Throw-back Thursday! Can you believe it's been 5 years since Steffi Lazerte, Stefanie Butland, and Nicholas Tierney launched rOpenSci's monthly Coworking? 🎉 60 sessions later, we're still collaborating and having fun together! Read the original post: ropensci.org/blog/2021/08... #RStats

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rOpenSci Introduces Monthly Social Coworking and Office Hours

Work, meet other developers, get your questions answered, and/or socialize!

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 06/08/2026

One of the great thing about @ropensci.org's R-Universe is its ability to test and debut new tech that advances the whole #RStats ecosystem. Here Jeroen lays out how this project upstreamed changes to things like base R installers, Rust integration, and patches to many R packages.

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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 06/08/2026

[blog] The Journey of {nycOpenData}: From Classroom to Community 🗽 Christian Martinez @thedatadj.bsky.social shows how a struggling virtual classroom sparked the creation of {nycOpenData} — an R package for accessing NYC Open Data, no API knowledge required 📦️ ropensci.org/blog/2026/08... #RStats

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The Journey of {nycOpenData}: From Classroom to Community

🔗 FADE IN Nine students in the M.S. in Psychology Research program at Brooklyn College, New York City (NYC), USA are taking the course Reproducible Psychological Research, where they are learning…

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Jeroen Ooms @jeroenooms.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

R-universe now provides binaries and check results for Windows-ARM64 of all CRAN and BIOC packages: contributor.r-project.org/windows-arm64/

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R on ARM64 Windows

R on Windows ARM64

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

priorsense R package has now JOSS paper "priorsense: Efficient prior and likelihood sensitivity checks for Bayesian models in R" you can cite, too doi.org/10.21105/jos... with Noa Kallioinen, Topi Paananen, and @paulbuerkner.com priorsense achieved also a gold badge from @ropensci.org review!

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priorsense: Efficient prior and likelihood sensitivity checks for Bayesian models in R

Kallioinen et al., (2026). priorsense: Efficient prior and likelihood sensitivity checks for Bayesian models in R. Journal of Open Source Software, 11(123), 11036, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.11036

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Cristian Román-Palacios @cromanpa.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

New paper from the lab! ssarp, our R package (@ropensci.org), takes you from raw occurrence records to species- and speciation-area relationships without the weeks of data wrangling that usually stand in the way. Work with Kristen Martinet and Luke Harmon. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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<fi>ssarp</fi>: An R Package for Efficiently Inferring Species‐ and Speciation‐Area Relationships

The ssarp (Species-/Speciation-Area Relationship Projector) R package provides users with a streamlined workflow for inferring species- and speciation-area relationships for island-dwelling species. ...

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Maëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 08/07/2026

Recién @yabellini.bsky.social y yo enseñamos esas sesiones para campeones de @ropensci.org: 💄 ¡Código hermoso, porque lo valemos! 🧰 Desarrollo de 📦 para principiantes 💩 ¡Miércoles, Git! 📜 Usar y mejorar tu historial de Git ✨ Desarrollo de 📦 avanzado Materiales ropensci.org/es/training/ #RStats

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Capacitación

Una tabla de búsqueda de sesiones de capacitación más o menos recientes impartidas por integrantes del equipo de rOpenSci o personas que representan a rOpenSci.

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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 14/07/2026

✍️[blog] From Peer Review to Mentorship: My rOpenSci Story We're kicking off our 15th anniversary story series! In our 1st post, Eunseop Kim shares how a software peer review led to becoming a reviewer and later a mentor in the Champions Program Read the story ropensci.org/blog/2026/07... #RStats

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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 07/07/2026

rOpenSci Coworking and Office Hours coming up in an hour! 🍪 Today's Theme: Debugging in R with cohost@pipinghotdata.com 🐞 Tuesday July 7th 09:00 Americas Pacific (16:00 UTC) 🔗 ropensci.org/events/coworking-2026-07 #RStats

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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 07/07/2026

July 06-09, 2026: useR! 2026 is taking place in Warsaw. Check out rOpenSci community members' participation in the conference: ropensci.org/events/user-... #RStats #useR2026

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useR! 2026 - Warsaw

Software Review Lead Mark Padgham and rOpenSci community members are attending the useR! conference.

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Shannon Pileggi @pipinghotdata.com · 30/06/2026

Debugging in R is often missed in #rstats curriculums, but it is a minimal investment with huge workflow gains.🐞 Hope you can join us! 🤗

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 02/07/2026

Read this incredibly useful post by Community Engineer Steffi LaZerte if you write prose in Quarto or R Markdown! I begged her to write it so I could duplicate her spellcheck, formatting and grammar linting config. (Also, note that we reset the @ropensci.org account, give it a re-follow!) #RStats

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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 02/07/2026

[blog] FOSS Tools for Lazy Editors ✍️ Steffi LaZerte shares her editorial workflow for the rOpenSci blog, built on FOSS tools configured as extensions in Positron 🛠️ ropensci.org/blog/2026/07... #RStats

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FOSS Tools for Lazy Editors

How we streamlined the editing of our blog posts using 4 open-source tools that you could adopt too

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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 30/06/2026

June news #RStats 🌟 Yani Joins the 2026 Sovereign Tech Fellowship 🙏 New editors 📑 New guide: Organizing Events for First-time Contributors ✍️ Champions Program, R-Universe & Soft Peer-Review updates 🎂 Celebrating 15 years together 📦 New pkg {pvEBayes}, {nycOpenData} ropensci.org/blog/2026/06...

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rOpenSci News Digest, June 2026

New editors; champions program; Sovereign Tech Fellowship; Quinceañera; new packages and package news

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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 30/06/2026

Coworking and Office Hours next week! 🍪 Theme: Debugging in #RStats 🐞 Tuesday July 7th 16:00 UTC Join @pipinghotdata.com and @yabellini.bsky.social General coworking Read up on debugging in R Cowork independently Chat with Shannon and other attendees! 🔗 ropensci.org/events/cowor...

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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 29/06/2026

🎉 We've just moved @ropensci.org on Bluesky to a fully independent account! We were previously bridged from our Mastodon account via Bridgy Fed. Same community, same content, fresh start. Give us a follow if you haven't already! 🦋 #RStats

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