Coworking and Office Hours next week!
Theme: Climate Science in R
Tuesday November 3rd 09:00 Australia Western (01:00 UTC)
Join @eliocamp and @steffilazerte
- General coworking
- Explore how R is used to study the climate
- Cowork independently on something related to R
- Chat and discuss our theme!
✍️ [blog] Mark Padgham: Building the Machinery of Software Peer Review By The rOpenSci Team
Mark Padgham is leaving rOpenSci at the end of October, and we want to take this moment to recognize his impact and say thank you for helping to shape rOpenSci.
https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/10/21/mark-building-machinery-software-review/
✍️ [blog] Celebrating 15 Years of rOpenSci: Then, Now & Next by Yanina Bellini Saibene, Steffi LaZerte and Noam Ross.
Reflections and ideas shared by participants across the two special gatherings named "rOpenSci Community Celebration: Then, Now & Next"
🎥 Missed *Beyond the Code*?
Watch the recording of our community call and discover projects from our Champions 2025-2026 cohort, spanning package development, peer review, science communication, and more.
📚 Video, notes & projects: https://ropensci.org/es/commcalls/mas-alla-del-codigo-2026/
🎥 ¿Te perdiste *Más allá del código*?
Ya podés ver la grabación de nuestra "conversaciónes con la comunidad" y descubrir los proyectos de nuestra cohorte de Campeon(a|e)s: desarrollo de paquetes, revisión por pares y divulgación.
📚 Video, notas y proyectos: https://ropensci.org/es/commcalls/mas-alla-del-codigo-2026/
⏰ ¡Hoy a las 15:00 (UTC), en una hora, empieza “Más Allá del Código”! Conocé los proyectos finales de nuestra cohorte, el impacto técnico de cada herramienta y las oportunidades que abrieron.
Sumate, preguntá en vivo y celebremos a la comunidad.
🔗 https://ropensci.org/es/commcalls/mas-alla-del-codigo-2026/
#RStats
📣 ¡Mañana lunes 12 a las 15:00 (UTC) es “Más Allá del Código”!
Un encuentro abierto para conocer los proyectos finales de nuestra cohorte de campeonas y campeones: paquetes de software, divulgación, becas y colaboraciones. Hacé tus preguntas en vivo y celebremos a la comunidad.
🔗 https://ropensci.org/es/commcalls/mas-alla-del-codigo-2026/
#RStats
rOpenSci Coworking and Office Hours coming up in an hour!
Today's Theme: Writing Tests & Testing in R with cohost @defuneste
Tuesday October 6th 09:00 Americas Pacific (16:00 UTC)
Why ggseg atlases became function calls: R can't re-export a dataset from one package's namespace into another, and the whole ggsegverse depends on being able to.
I had a clever .onLoad() workaround that worked. I asked the #rOpenSci Slack "does this smell?" and it did. Two people landed on "just use a function" independently.
Ask the smell question out loud. Someone will tell you. 🧠 #RStats
[blog] Throw-back Thursday!
🎉 rOpenSci celebrates a decade of Community Management! 💙
Thank you Stefanie Butland for starting it all in 2016, and thank you @yabellini for taking it further in 2022. We've had an awesome 10 years of lovingly curated community experiences, here's to the next 10 years!
⏳ Greetings from Your Community Manager!
📆 Oct 12, 2016
🔗 https://ropensci.org/blog/2016/10/12/your-community-manager/
⏳ Introducing rOpenSci new Community Manager, Yanina Bellini Saibene
📆 Jun 21, 2022
🔗 https://ropensci.org/blog/2022/06/21/introducing-yanina/
📌 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, the outreach that brought them to their communities, and the opportunities these projects opened up.
📅 Monday, October 12
🕛 15:00 UTC
🗣️ In Spanish, open to everyone
👉 https://ropensci.org/es/commcalls/mas-alla-del-codigo-2026/
📌 Más Allá del Código: muestra abierta de los proyectos de nuestros campeon(a|e)s
Te invitamos a esta conversación con la comunidad donde vas a conocer paquetes de R creados, mejorados y revisados, actividades de divulgación y las oportunidades que se abrieron gracias a estos proyectos.
📅 Lunes 12 de octubre
🕛 15:00 UTC (12:00 UTC-3)
💬 En español
Sumate a inspirarte, hacer tus preguntas en vivo y celebrar con nuestra comunidad 👉 https://ropensci.org/commcalls/mas-alla-del-codigo-2026/
Coworking and Office Hours next week!
Theme: Writing Tests & Testing in R
Tuesday October 6th 09:00 Americas Pacific (16:00 UTC)
Join @defuneste and @yabellini
- General coworking
- Explore how to write tests for R
- Add some tests to your work or packages
- Chat with @defuneste and other attendees and discuss our theme!
✍️ [blog] Celebrando la comunidad de rOpenSci por Mauro Lepore #RStats
En el marco del 15.º aniversario de rOpenSci, Mauro reflexiona sobre su recorrido en la comunidad y comparte cinco aprendizajes sobre colaboración, contribución, amabilidad y la importancia de las conexiones humanas en la era de la IA.
https://ropensci.org/es/blog/2026/09/29/celebrando-ropensci/
✍️ [blog] Celebrating the rOpenSci Community by Mauro Lepore #RStats
For rOpenSci’s 15th anniversary, Mauro reflects on his journey with the community and shares five lessons about collaboration, contribution, kindness, and the importance of human connections in the age of AI
https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/09/29/celebrating-ropensci/
September news 🗞️ #RStats
✍️ Champions Program update including a comm call announcement Monday Oct 12, 2026 15:00 UTC!
📆 Yani and Mark at the Openscapes comm call “Open Communities in the age of AI”
📦️️ New packages {ciecl}, {brapiR2}
🎂 Quinceañera (celebrating 15 years together): Yi-Chin Sunny Tseng's blog post
🎉 rOpenSci at LatinR 2026 in Medellín, Colombia. See you there!
📆 Coworking
🧰 Package development corner
3/5 Our editorial team is currently juggling:
🔹 5 pre-submission issues
🔹 17 standard review issues
🔹 12 stats review issues
34 packages moving through the pipeline at once💪
Every review happens in the open on GitHub: you can follow along as it happens.
https://github.com/ropensci/software-review
#PeerReviewWeek
🧵 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
2/5 So far, we've reviewed 274 packages, including 24 statistical packages through our dedicated stats track. Hundreds of scientists & developers getting expert eyes on their code. 👀
https://ropensci.r-universe.dev/packages
#PeerReviewWeek #rstats