As a package maintainer, you might want to get some numbers or impressions on the usage of your package for various reasons: getting some confirmation that your work is useful, prioritizing development on specific features of your software, helping justify a request for funding. Don’t get your hopes too high: there is no perfect solution nor measure.

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’re excited to continue supporting LatinR as a community partner in 2025. Registration is now open for the free LatinR Conference, bringing together researchers, developers, and open science advocates from across the region.

🔗Introduction rOpenSci curates packages developed in the R programming language and also offers a well-established peer review process for R packages.

🔗Why we created Computo The idea of Computo was born out of a desire to foster a deeper scientific understanding as well as a need to address several challenges in the current scientific publishing landscape, especially within statistics and machine learning.

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.