🔗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, the Code of Conduct Committee,are responsible for receiving, investigating, deciding,enforcing and reporting on all reports of potential violations of our Code.We are committed to transparency with our community

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 🔗R-Universe Named an R Consortium Top-Level Project We are excited to announce that R-Universehas been named the R Consortium’s newest Top-Level Project!

Since 2022, rOpenSci has been developing tools and processes to localize and translate our content.As a result of this effort, we created a set of guidelines to assist our community in translating and localizing our resources.What started as an internal challenge has evolved into a collaborative blueprint that we believe can help transform how scientific resources are shared in a multilingual research landscape.

We are excited to announce that R-Universehas been named the R Consortium’s newest Top-Level Project!

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 🔗Looking for Maintainers to Support First-Time Contributors Now open to non-rOpenSci package maintainers! Making your first contribution to Open Source can be both empowering and intimidating.

Thanksgiving is celebrated in many parts of the world.The USA, rOpenSci’s official location, celebrates Thanksgiving this Thursday, 28th November.Giving thanks to contributors is also an important part of open-source software development.Many open-source software projects use the allcontributors.org system to acknowledge contributions, which includes One strong motivation for allcontributors.org is to “Recognize all contributors, including those

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!

Do you remember your first contribution to open source?Or are you still waiting to make it? Contributing to open source can be very rewarding, but also incredibly intimidating.When we asked about first time contributions on the rOpenSci Slack,people recalled the challenges and mistakes they made, but mostly how much they learned from and enjoyed that experience.For open source maintainers, contributions can also lead to mixed feelings,as

Exciting News! The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has awarded rOpenSci a new grant to foster sustainable scientific software as a pillar of Open Science in Latin America by building capacity and community. With this $340K grant, we’re planning to launch a Spanish-language version of our Champions Program, along with other new initiatives to make sustainable software development more accessible to researchers across the region.

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 🔗Community call recording: Navigating the R ecosystem using R-universe Video and resources. Learn more about R-Universe and how you can use it to improve your R package development workflow.

import mermaid from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/mermaid/dist/mermaid.esm.min.mjs'; mermaid.initialize({ startOnLoad: true }); For the better part of a year, I have been looking for an opportunity to use the rOpenSci package deposits in myrole as the Data Librarian at EcoHealth Alliance.I had done some initial testing with Mark Padgham, the brilliant person who developed this package, but there weren’t any projects ready for me to put