Publications by rOpenSci - open tools for open science
Supporting rOpenSci Mentors with Practical Tools
Mentoring is at the heart of what makes rOpenSci a community. Our members mentoring each other at different moments: when someone new joins and needs help navigating the community; when a member steps into a new role, like a reviewer for our software peer review, or project, like become the maintainer of a package, and could use some guidance; duri...
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rOpenSci News Digest, March 2025
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 Champions Program 2025 In Spanish: Apply before April 30th! We have great news: The call for applications to be part of the new cohort of our 2025 Program is now open...
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Software Review, Perspectives from an Academic
There’s an R package for this… right? How it started My journey in creating my first R package all started when I received an email from a colleague who was working with archived soil samples that were collected prior to the advent of GPS technology. These samples were georeferenced using the Manitoba Original Survey Legal Descriptions, which ...
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rOpenSci Participation at NumFOCUS’ DISC Unconf
The NumFOCUS Diversity & Inclusion in Scientific Computing (“DISC”) Unconf took place as a hybrid event in São Paulo, Brazil, from March 14 to 16, 2025. Our community manager, Yanina Bellini Saibene, and rOpenSci Champions, Andrea Gomez Vargas and Liz Hare, participated. In this short post we report on our experience at and around the unconfer...
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rOpenSci Code of Conduct Annual Review
rOpenSci’s activities and spaces are supported by a Code of Conduct that applies to all people participating in the rOpenSci community, including rOpenSci staff and leadership. It applies to all modes of interaction including GitHub project repositories, the rOpenSci discussion forum, Slack, Community Calls, Co-working and social sessions, and in...
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Template To Handle Code of Conduct Incidents Reports
Handling reported incidents related to a Code of Conduct (CoC) is a complex and delicate task. Managing reports timely and with care is crucial for maintaining a healthy and inclusive community. To assist with this process we’ve developed a template, based on the work of the useR! 2021 CoC Team, designed specifically for analyzing rOpenSci’s Co...
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rOpenSci Champions Program 2025: In Spanish!
We have great news: The call for applications to be part of the new cohort of our 2025 Program is now open! And for the first time it will be in Spanish! Our program seeks to identify, recognize and reward people who are leaders in an open science community, research software engineering and the R programming community. This year’s program is foc...
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Better documentation for R-universe!
Since the initial launch in 2021, our R-universe platform has steadily grown into a comprehensive infrastructure for publishing and discovering R material. As functionality keeps evolving and community adoption increases, we felt the need for a central documentation point. New features and developments are generally discussed in the issue tracker o...
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rOpenSci News Digest, February 2025
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 Open Science and Open Source only with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Including all of humanity is and always will be at the heart of open science. Read more a...
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The Dynamic Relationship of Forks with their Upstream Repository
Context setting rOpenSci organizes monthly co-working hours on a variety of topics. But the constant is the quality of the discussion that ensues and the renewed energy that comes from it. The November coworking session welcomed Stefanie Butland from Openscapes as a co-host. She shared Openscapes’ approach of “Forking as a worldview”. Forks i...
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