mastodon 4.7.3We are a community that fosters a culture that values open and reproducible research using shared data and reusable software. We develops #RStats based tools and social infrastructure to facilitate open science and access to open data.
[blog] FOSS Tools for Lazy Editors ✍️
@steffilazerte@fosstodon.org shares her editorial workflow for the rOpenSci blog, built on FOSS tools configured as extensions in Positron 🛠️
Learn how cSpell, Vale, Panache, and GitHub PRs help automate tedious editorial tasks like spell checking, style linting, markdown formatting, and converting edits into review suggestions.
Coworking and Office Hours next week!
Theme: Debugging in R
Tuesday July 7th 09:00 Americas Pacific (16:00 UTC)
Join @PipingHotData@fosstodon.org and @yabellini@rstats.me
- General coworking
- Read up on debugging in R
- Cowork independently on something related to R
- Chat with Shannon and other attendees and discuss our theme!
Coworking and Office Hours next week!
Theme: Vale and Text Linting
Tuesday August 4th 09:00 Australia Western (01:00 UTC)
Join @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org and @steffilazerte@fosstodon.org
- General coworking
- Read up on text linting and learn more about vale (https://vale.sh/)
- Setup a linting framework (https://jcarroll.xyz/2026/05/21/linting-prose-around-code-with.html) for your projects
- Chat with Jonathan and other attendees and discuss our theme!
👋 Meet Ronald M. Visser #MaintainerMonth spotlight!
Ronald is an interdisciplinary scientist combining archaeology, dendrochronology, and data science. He maintains {dendroNetwork}, an R package for analysing dendrochronological networks.
Find him at:
🐘 @RonaldVisser@akademienl.social
🐙 https://github.com/RonaldVisser
Today we’re featuring Maëlle Salmon! 🇫🇷
R(esearch) Software Engineer and Blogger. She maintains {saperlipopette}, {babelquarto}, and {babeldown} for rOpenSci.
🐘 @maelle@mastodon.social
💻 github.com/maelle
🌐 masalmon.eu
[blog] A Better R Programming Experience Thanks to Tree-sitter
Did you know that thnaks to Tree-sitter's support for R help you get
✨ reformatting through Air and linting through Jarl;
✨ auto-completion or help on hover in the Positron IDE;
✨ better search for R on GitHub;
✨ and more!
By @maelle@mastodon.social, edited by @etiennebacher@mastodon.social, @davis@fosstodon.org, @steffilazerte@fosstodon.org
[blog] An API for Everything There Is to Know About #RStats Packages
Example use cases of the R-Universe APIs 🚀
https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/07/08/r-universe-apis-use-cases/
July 06-09, 2026: useR! 2026 is taking place in Warsaw.
Check out rOpenSci community members' participation in the conference:
Today we’re featuring Julia Silge! 🇺🇸
Data scientist and MLOps practitioner with #rstats, specializing in text mining. She maintains {qualtRics} that implements the retrieval of survey data using the Qualtrics API and aims to reduce the pre-processing steps needed in analyzing such surveys.
🐘 @juliasilge@fosstodon.org
💻 https://github.com/juliasilge
🔗 https://linkedin.com/in/juliasilge
✍️ [blog] Collaborating between Bioconductor and R-Universe on Development of Common Infrastructure by rOpenSci and Bioconductor Teams
The R-consortium ISC top-level project R-universe is working with Bioconductor to gradually modernize parts of its infrastructure while accommodating the project’s scale, governance, and established processes.
Learn more about it https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/04/08/r-universe-bioc/
✍️ [blog] From Peer Review to Mentorship: My rOpenSci Story by Eunseop Kim
🌟 We're kicking off our 15th anniversary story series! 🌟
In our first post, Eunseop Kim shares how a software peer review unexpectedly led to becoming an rOpenSci reviewer and later a mentor in the Champions Program. Read the story about how open, constructive review builds not only better software, but stronger communities.
📝 [blog] How do we keep software peer review human-centered in the age of generative AI?
That’s the question behind our latest post at rOpenSci, where we describe:
• new expectations around AI use
• what this means for authors, reviewers, and editors
• why transparency matters more than ever
This is an evolving area, and we’re learning as we go.
💬 We’d love your feedback
https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/02/26/ropensci-ai-policy/
🎉 Reminder!
rOpenSci turns 15, come celebrate with us tomorrow!
📅 Wed June 17, 9am Australia Western (01:00 UTC)
🔗 https://ropensci.org/events/celebrations-2026-06-17/
Come reflect on the past and brainstorm the future with @noamross@ecoevo.social, @yabellini@rstats.me, and @steffilazerte@fosstodon.org 🥳
🗒️ [blog] New Mentoring Team with Experienced Mentors and New Voices
Meet the new team of mentors who will accompany our Champions in their projects for a year, sharing experience, guidance, and enthusiasm.
rOpenSci Coworking and Office Hours coming up in an hour!
Today's Theme: Debugging in R with cohost @PipingHotData@fosstodon.org
Tuesday July 7th 09:00 Americas Pacific (16:00 UTC)
On International Women’s Day, we celebrate the many women who shape rOpenSci every day. 💙
From software development and peer review to mentorship, community leadership, and training, women are building and strengthening open science across our global community.
They play key roles across rOpenSci:
💻 developing and maintaining research software
🔍 serving as software editors and reviewers
🎓 training, mentoring, and championing the next generation of contributors
🌱 leading community programs
🧩 shaping policies for open and reproducible science
You can meet some of these women on our website:
https://ropensci.org
The strength of rOpenSci comes from the people who contribute to it. Today, we celebrate the women who lead, collaborate, and support others in open science and reaffirm our commitment to building inclusive communities where everyone can thrive. ✨
Tag or highlight some woman whose work inspires you in the rOpenSci community. 🙌
Let’s recognize the people who make open science stronger every day.
June news 🗞️ #RStats
🌟 Yanina Joins the 2026 Sovereign Tech Fellowship
🙏 New editors Ronny Hernandez Mora, Joel Nitta, and Nick Tierney
📑 A new guide: Organizing Events for First-time Contributors
✍️ Champions Program update
🚀 R-Universe updates
👀 Software Peer-Review updates
🎂 Quinceañera: celebrating 15 years together
📦 New packages {pvEBayes}, {nycOpenData}
📆 Coworking
🗒️ Blog posts
🧰 Package development corner
[blog] rOpenSci Dev Guide 1.0.0: Trilingual and Improved 🥳
rOpenSci Software Peer Review’s guidance is gathered in an online book that keeps improving! This blog post summarises what’s new in our Dev Guide 1.0.0,
[blog] Better #RStats Code, Without Any Effort, Without Even AI
By @maelle@mastodon.social, edited by @etiennebacher@mastodon.social & @steffilazerte@fosstodon.org
Read about:
✨ {lintr}, an R package that detects many ways to improve your code;
✨ Air, a fast CLI (command-line interface) for formatting R code automatically and almost instantly;
✨ jarl, another fast CLI (command-line interface) tool to find and automatically fix lints;
✨ {flir}, an R package to efficiently rewrite patterns of code, either built-in ones or custom ones.
[blog] Throw-back Thursday!
Last year @maelle@mastodon.social introduced the idea of ROR IDs (tldr; ROR IDs are to Organizations what ORCiDs are to individuals). Have you set your organizations up with ROR IDs and put them in all the docs yet?
⏳ Roaringly Acknowledge Organizations with ROR IDs in DESCRIPTION
📆 May 9, 2025
🔗 https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/05/09/ror/
✍️ [blog] Closing The Loop with Our 2025 Wrap-up by The rOpenSci Team
A post reflecting on a year of shared learning and collaboration. Take a look at our wrap-up and our plans for 2026.
[blog] Throw-back Thursday!
It's already been 5-years since our first fully Spanish Software Peer Review submitted by @pacha@mastodonsocial.ca 🎉!
⏳ The Story Behind censo2017, the First rOpenSci Package to be Reviewed in Spanish
📆 July 27, 2021
🔗 https://ropensci.org/blog/2021/07/27/censo2017/
[blog] Throw-back Thursday!
Not so long ago @yabellini@rstats.me shared how the Champions program supports the growth of mentors. Do you have some mentors you'd like to support?
⏳ Supporting rOpenSci Mentors with Practical Tools
📆 April 8, 2025
🔗 https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/04/08/mentoring-tools/
March news! 🗞️ #RStats
🌐 rOpenSci Dev Guide 1.0.0: Trilingual and Improved
🙌 Champions Program Update
🚀 R-Universe update
🔎 Software review and usage of AI tools
🤖 Software review bot updates
📆 Coworking
🐦 New package {suwo}
👋 Call for contributions & new maintainers
🗒️ Blog posts!
🧰 Package Development Corner
[blog] Throw-back Thursday!
It's the 5-year anniversary of the rOpenSci Community Contributing Guide 🎉
Have you ever wanted to get more involved with rOpensci?
Or wondered how rOpenSci might help you achieve your own goals?
Explore the guide: https://contributing.ropensci.org/
Or learn more about it in this post by Stefanie Butland and @steffilazerte@fosstodon.org:
⏳ Introducing the rOpenSci Community Contributing Guide
📆 January 20, 2021
🔗 https://ropensci.org/blog/2021/01/20/contributing-guide/
Coworking and Office Hours next week!
Theme: Getting to know The Carpentries
Tuesday December 2nd 14:00 Europe Central (13:00 UTC)
Join @angeliquetrusler@mastodon.social and @steffilazerte@fosstodon.org
- General coworking
- Visit The Carpentries (https://carpentries.org/)
- Cowork independently on something related to R
- Chat with Angelique and other attendees and discuss our theme!
February news! 🗞️ #RStats
💙 Strong Engagement in the Champions Program Call
🤔 Policy Updates for use of Generative AI Tools
🚀 Community Dashboard for your own R-Universe
📆 Coworking
💓 New packages {Athlytics}, {orgmetrics}
👋 Call for contributions & new maintainers
🗒️ Blog posts!
🧰 Package Development Corner
[help wanted] rOpenSci packages are looking for maintainer help 🙏
The following packages are looking for a new maintainer (or maintainer team).
Check out their issues to see about getting involved
landscapetools - https://github.com/ropensci/landscapetools/issues/48
NLMR - https://github.com/ropensci/NLMR/issues/116
Coworking and Office Hours next week!
Theme: Getting to know the CSID Network
Tuesday April 7th 09:00 Americas Pacific (16:00 UTC)
Join Irene Ramos and @steffilazerte@fosstodon.org
- General coworking
- Visit the [CSID Network](https://csidnet.org/)
- Cowork independently on something related to R
- Chat with Irene and other attendees and discuss our theme!
✍️ [blog] How to Recruit a New Maintainer for Your Package by @yabellini@rstats.me @noamross@ecoevo.social & @maelle@mastodon.social
Finding a new maintainer for your R package can be an overwhelming task. In this post, we share practical tips and strategies to help you find people who can contribute and take over your package.
rOpenSci Coworking and Office Hours coming up in an hour!
Today's Theme: rOpenSci Editors with cohost @mpadge@nerdculture.de
Tuesday March 3rd 14:00 Europe Central (13:00 UTC)
La página que contiene el formulario para aplicar al programa de campeonas/es está experimentando problemas.
Extendemos el llamado hasta el lunes 23.
Si el problema persiste buscaremos una alternativa.
Gracias a todas las personas que nos avisaron y que quieren aplicar! 💜🙏
📣 Save the date!!
Next Community Call: R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages with @landau@fosstodon.org
📆 Monday, 29 September 2025 14:00 UTC
Information + find your local time + How to join: https://ropensci.org/commcalls/r-multiverse/
🙏 Please share this event with anyone who may be interested in the topic.
We look forward to seeing you! 💫
📣 This is today (one hour from now)! Join us. 🙂 📦
rOpenSci Community Call, R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages
📆 Monday, 29 September 2025 14:00 UTC
with @landau@fosstodon.org
Information + How to join: https://ropensci.org/commcalls/r-multiverse/
[blog] reviser: Analyzing Real-Time Data Revisions in R 📈
Marc Burri and Philipp Wegmüller introduce reviser, an R package for analyzing real-time data vintages and revisions in macroeconomic datasets.
Learn about reviser’s workflow: reshape vintages, extract revisions, summarize revision properties, and nowcast future revisions with state-space models.
https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/04/13/reviser/
🙏 Thank you to reviewers Alex Gibberd and Tanguy Barthelemy, and editor Rebecca Killick
Coworking and Office Hours next week!
Theme: Ship your R package to the R-multiverse!
Tuesday October 7th 09:00 Americas Pacific (16:00 UTC)
Join @landau@fosstodon.org, @maelle@mastodon.social, and @steffilazerte@fosstodon.org
- General coworking
- Learn more about the [R-multiverse](https://r-multiverse.org)
- Submit your package to the [R-multiverse](https://r-multiverse.org)!
- Chat with Will, Maëlle, and other attendees and discuss our theme!
Coworking Mini-Hackathon for First-Time Contributors 🎉
Curious or excited about contributing to Open Source Software? Would you like some support to get started?
If any of the above, our upcoming coworking mini-hackathons are for you!
Feb 4th 2025 1-3 UTC and March 4th 2025 13-15 UTC
Join us and contribute to R packages while package maintainers and other mentors are available 'live' to answer questions and give guidance.
See our blog post for more details: https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/01/24/coworking-hackathons/
✍️ [blog post] Help Us Design a New Git(Hub) Organizational Dashboard by @mpadge@nerdculture.de
We at rOpenSci are developing an organizational dashboard to provide an overview of all rOpenSci code contributors and their repositories. We are seeking feedback and suggestions on an initial prototype dashboard.
Read more in the blog post: https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/09/11/repometrics-call-help/
[blog] Breaking Release of the patentsview Package
Russ Allen and Chris Baker introduce major updates to patentsview following breaking changes to the PatentsView API 🔧
Learn what's changed and how to update your code to work with the new API endpoints and structure.
https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/03/10/patentsview-breaking-release/
⚠️ Note: A PatentsView API key is now required & there is some uncertainty around the long-term API viability
Coworking and Office Hours next week!
Theme: Improving accessibility in your work
Tuesday September 9th 14:00 European Central (12:00 UTC)
Join @spcanelon@hachyderm.io and @steffilazerte@fosstodon.org
- General coworking
- Explore where you might improve accessibility in your work
- Start making changes to improve accessibility
- Chat with Silvia and other attendees and discuss our theme!
[blog] Throw-back Thursday!
Time flies when you're having fun! 10 years ago @jeroenooms@fosstodon.org introduced pdftools to the rOpenSci ecosystem as a staff-maintained package!
⏳ Introducing pdftools - A fast and portable PDF extractor
📆 March 1, 2016
🔗 https://ropensci.org/blog/2016/03/01/pdftools-and-jeroen/
Coworking and Office Hours next week!
Theme: rOpenSci Editors
Tuesday March 3rd 14:00 Europe Central (13:00 UTC)
Join @mpadge@nerdculture.de and @steffilazerte@fosstodon.org
- General coworking
- Learn more about [rOpenSci Software Peer Review](https://ropensci.org/software-review/)
- Cowork independently on something related to R
- Chat with Mark and other attendees and discuss our theme!
Coworking and Office Hours next week!
Theme: Code Review with rOpenSci
Tuesday November 4th 09:00 Australia Western (01:00 UTC)
Join @lizhare@fosstodon.org and @steffilazerte@fosstodon.org
- General coworking
- Explore resources for Code Review
- Sign up to volunteer to do software peer-review at rOpenSci (https://airtable.com/app8dssb6a7PG6Vwj/shrnfDI2S9uuyxtDw)
- Chat with Liz and other attendees and discuss our theme!
Coworking and Office Hours next week!
Theme: Drawing publication-ready plots using R
Tuesday August 5th 09:00 Australian Western (01:00 UTC)
Join @emitanaka@fosstodon.org and @steffilazerte@fosstodon.org
- General coworking
- Work on some figures and plots for your own work
- Explore ways of making publication-ready plots in R
- Chat with Emi and other attendees and discuss our theme!
rOpenSci and @openscapes@fosstodon.org ❤️ our U.S. federal members. For those seeking jobs in uncertain times, we want to help.
Join us May 6, 8:30PM EDT for discussion + networking on transitioning to data science in other sectors.
We'll have a panel of former feds (NOAA, NASA, USGS, DOE, NSF, NIH + Federal Reserve) now in other data-intensive organizations.
Are you a former fed with something to contribute? Join us, too!
Learn more and register at: https://ropensci.org/events/datasci-careers-feds/
rOpenSci Coworking and Office Hours coming up in an hour!
Today's Theme: Improving accessibility in your work with cohost @spcanelon@hachyderm.io
Tuesday September 9th 14:00 European Central (12:00 UTC)
Reminder! Editors' Office Hours in one hour
📅 Tue July 21, 16:00 Europe Central (14:00 UTC)
🔗 https://ropensci.org/events/office-hours-2026-07/
[help wanted] An rOpenSci package is looking for some help! 🙏
📦 GLMMcosinor (maintained by Rex Parsons)
Check out this 'help wanted' issue:
'[improvement] extract and visualise rhythms at the random-effect level' at https://github.com/ropensci/GLMMcosinor/issues/37 (by Rex Parsons)
Editors' Office Hours Next Week
Have questions about rOpenSci Software Peer Review? Drop in and ask!
@mpadge@nerdculture.de is hosting Editors' Office Hours 🎉, a new type of event we're testing out.
📅 Tue July 21, 16:00 Europe Central (14:00 UTC)
🔗 https://ropensci.org/events/office-hours-2026-07/
