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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 🔗Open call for the rOpenSci Champions Program 2026! We are pleased to announce the opening of a new call for applications for the rOpenSci Champions Program in Spanish , which will begin in 2026.

Maintaining an open source package is rewarding work, but it’s also a lot of work.Life and careers change, interests shift, and sometimes you simply don’t have the time or energy to keep working on your R package (and that’s okay! ¹ ).When that happens, one of the most responsible things you can do for package users, and for yourself, is to proactively look for a new maintainer or

At the beginning of 2025, we outlined our goals for the year, our 2024 Highlights. As the year started, our work took place in a far more challenging global context than many of us anticipated. Across many countries, science and research faced funding cuts, layoffs, and attacks on diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion.

After passing through rOpenSci peer review, the distionary package is now newly available on CRAN.It allows you to make probability distributions quickly – either from a few inputs or from its built-in library – and then probe them in detail.

We are pleased to announce the opening of a new call for applications for the rOpenSci Champions Program in Spanish , which will begin in 2026.

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🔗Maintaining Community Trust and Safety The rOpenSci community is supported by our Code of Conductwith a clear description of unacceptable behaviors,instructions on how to make a report,and information on how reports are handled.

We refactored the R-universe CI workflows to make it possible to run the exact same workflow from your own GitHub repository. This allows you to test or debug the build and check process on your R package, exactly as it will happen on R-universe, but without actually deploying to https://r-universe.dev.

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.

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