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 🔗2025-11-06 Community call: Graceful Internet Packages Join us for our next Community Call, “Graceful Internet Packages”, on Thursday, 06 November 2025 at 15:00 UTC featuring Matthias Grenié, Tan Ho, and Salix Dubois.

Will Landau recently introduced the R-multiverse, a new way to publish R packages, during an rOpenSci community call. ¹ After that event, a coworking session allowed even more discussion between Will, his R-multiverse fellow administrators Jeroen Ooms and Maëlle Salmon, and community members.

Our own dev guide states Recognizing the diverse forms of contributions to our mission is very important to us:we like thanking package reviewers and more generally all package contributors, organizations as well as individuals. We have recently extended our efforts to acknowledging the different roles there are when publishing a blog post.

Are you the mother goat or the wolf?Consumers of your online content might care!Be it on social media or other platforms, your profile can sometimes be “verified”.What does it mean? How does one get a green checkmark where it matters?Here’s a primer on domain verification.

At rOpenSci, our Code of Conduct (CoC) committee works to support a healthy, welcoming, and inclusive community. A big part of this work is making sure that the processes we follow are transparent, consistent, and fair. Over the years, we’ve developed a set of templates that guide us through different stages of incident response and reporting.

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!

This summer I had a wonderful time attending the Society for Canadian Ornithologists meeting in Saskatoon, Canada.It was super exciting to run into Sunny Tseng, rOpenSci Champion and fellow ornithologist!It’s not often that I am able to run into both types of colleagues (R developers and ornithologists) at the same conference, so I cherish these experiences.

If life gives you a bunch of Markdown files to analyse or edit, do you warm up your regex muscles and get going? How about using more specific tools instead? In this post, we shall give an overview of programmatic ways to parse and edit Markdown files: Markdown, R Markdown, Quarto, Hugo files, you name it. 🔗What is Markdown? Markdown is a (punny, eh) markup language created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz.

Open science has transformed how research is conducted, shared, and reused.Yet the organisations at the heart of this transformation are often left vulnerable, underfunded, and disconnected from one another.To move from simply surviving to truly thriving, five leading open science organisations – The Carpentries, OLS, rOpenSci , pyOpenSci, and PREreview – are convening to chart a collective path forward.We are so grateful to The

We have developed a prototype dashboard which aims to help organizations maintain complex systems of inter-dependent software components.Our initial prototype organizational dashboard provides insights into code contributors, their repositories, and maintenance status and needs.The prototype dashboard shows data for the three related GitHub organizations, reconhub, epiverse, and epiverse-trace, all of which develop and host open-source software

As we welcome the third cohort of the rOpenSci Champions Program, our second cohort has now completed the second phase of the program.In this article, we share each Champion’s project, their achievements, and their outreach activities. 🔗Champions’ Projects In their applications Champions choose to develop a new package or to participate in the review process as authors or reviewers.