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You don't have to be a C programmer to contribute to R. R Core members Simon Urbanek, Kurt Hornik, and Heather Turner explain how to report bugs, propose features, improve docs/translations, join an R Dev Day, or submit a patch. r-consortium.org/posts/how-do... #rstats #opensource #RConsortium

Highlight of my week. My student baked #Shiny hex sticker shortbread for our interactive dashboard class 😭

🐦 What is the BirdNET team at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology building with R? Sunny Tseng, PhD takes us inside birdnetTools 2.0, helping researchers turn millions of BirdNET detections into ecological insight. r-consortium.org/posts/from-b... #RStats #BirdNET @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social

Do you find testing in #RStats and #Python... spooky? 👻 Do not fear! Join us for Testober (h/t @schloerke.com): 🎃 10/6: Basic testing in R 🎃 10/13: Basic testing in Python 🎃 10/20: Testing in Shiny for R 🎃 10/27: Testing in Shiny for Python No tricks, only treats! Register here: pos.it/dslab

🧵 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

New blog post by @ellakaye.co.uk and @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy: Zulip Chat for the R Project #RStats blog.r-project.org/2026/09/22/z...

Gave my talk "Can I offer you a nice IDE in this trying time?" at #positconf earlier today and it went well slides here: luisdva.github.io/rstats/posit...

🗺️ Crea mapas interactivos, modernos y eficientes en R! El paquete MapGL usa MapLibre para visualizar y explorar datos georeferenciados, cartografías, polígonos, coordenadas o cualquier otro dato geoespacial! #Rstats Revisa el tutorial con datos censales: bastianolea.rbind.io/blog/mapas_mapgl/

Have you spotted the new RLadies+ stickers yet? 💜 Look out for them at R conferences around the world! 🌍✨ And if you get one, show us where it ended up! 😄 #RLadies+ #RStats

RLadies+ at the R Project Sprint 2026! 💜 Different countries, different roles across the R ecosystem, one amazing community. ✨ #RLadies+ #RStats

🎉 Big news is coming. Next week we'll unveil a new name and brand identity for the Software Sustainability Institute that captures the work we do today, honours what we've achieved so far, and sets the stage for what's next. Watch this space 👀 www.software.ac.uk/blog/new-ide...

Did you miss Quarto Slidecrafting workshop from @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social last week? I gotchu. Pinging @emilyriederer.bsky.social who had to miss out! And y'all lemme know if anything is missing in the description! All resources from the chat should be linked there! Video: youtu.be/xpFy0UGeb9Q

Próximo taller de Git con @yabellini.bsky.social: "¡Miércoles, Git! Manejo de errores en Git y no morir en el intento" 💩💪 Martes 25 de agosto 7:00 hs México (UTC-6) en #RSLA26 rs-latam.org/tutorial-git...

Nueva nota de blog sobre ARcenso 🇦🇷🌟, pasen y lean 💜

✍️ [blog] From Census Data to Demographic Analysis with ARcenso: A Reproducible Workflow in #RStats by Andrea and Emanuel This post showcases how to access, harmonise, and analyse Argentina's census data with ARcenso, an R package developed through our Champions Program ropensci.org/blog/2026/08...

Hi everyone, I love giving talks on community building - and want your voices in it. If you build or take part in tech communities (free time or work), I'd love to hear your experiences! It takes ~5-10 min and is anonymous 👉 forms.gle/Qmcez89xxMsA... Thank you! 💜

🎉 We've just moved @ropensci.org on Bluesky to a fully independent account! We were previously bridged from our Mastodon account via Bridgy Fed. Same community, same content, fresh start. Give us a follow if you haven't already! 🦋 #RStats

✍️ [blog] Eleven Latin American Voices for Open Science: The New Cohort of Champions rOpenSci 2026 Find out more about this Champions Program cohort in this new blog post by all the new cohort participants: https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/06/09/champions-2026/ #RStats #FOSS

Today, meet Haydée Svab 🇧🇷! She is the Executive Director of Open Knowledge Brasil, R-Ladies São Paulo Co-organizer, and a Data Scientist at ASK-AR. Haydée also worked on urban mobility, and as a participant of the rOpenSci Champions Program, she developed the […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

#MaintainerMonth Highlight: Bilikisu Wunmi Olatunji 🇳🇬! Bilikisu is a Data Scientist and an R Shiny developer. She is a RUG and a RLadies+ chapter organizer. As an rOpenSci Champions she developed and maintains chartkickR, an htmlwidget that seamlessly […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Meet Ezekiel Adebayo Ogundepo 🇳🇬 #MaintainerMonth Ezekiel is a data scientist with 10+ years of experience in interpreting and analyzing data in a fast-paced environment. As a rOpenSci Champion, Ezekiel worked on bulkreadr, an #RStats package to simplify and […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

¡Meet Guada Pascal 🇦🇷! #MaintainerMonth #RStats She is a Data Science Researcher based in Argentina. As an rOpenSci Champion, she developed matildaNLP, a package that includes a corpus of Spanish text from the Matilda initiative. Find her at: 🌐 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

💻️ Thank you to the 37 maintainers from 15 countries who agreed to participate in this #MaintainerMonth spotlights 👏 👏 These people maintain more than 50 packages that collectively serve thousands of researchers and data practitioners worldwide. 📦 🔬 And thanks […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

💡 Tip para tu envío a #LatinR2026: PDF, sin autores ni filiación Máximo 2 páginas Fuente 11, espacio simple Hay plantilla en RMarkdown (paquete latinr 💜) y en Google Docs. Lo que prefieras. latinr.org/blog/es/2026... Lo tenes listo, mandalo por aqui: openreview.net/group?id=LAT... #RStats

During a conference in Rio, and then 4 days of birding to/in/from Itatiaia Nacional Park in Brazil, I photographed 188 bird species, of which 67 were new for me. I'll post some of my favorites here in a thread, starting with Channel-billed Toucan (1/x) #Birds #BirdPhotography #Brazil

🟢 As part of our new series on Green Computing, we are pleased to announce the Introduction to Green Computing guide, written by Jyoti Bhogal and Caterina Doglioni. Find out more about the guide and how to access it at www.software.ac.uk/news/new-gui...

Lo prometido es deuda. Tras publicar la app hecha con R y Shiny, arranca la serie de artículos sobre datos de panel con R y EPH del INDEC: lo conceptual, lo metodológico y código libre para replicar. Primero de cuatro 📖 estacion-r.com/blog/b2b6462... Shiny: estacionr.shinyapps.io/shiny_eph_pa...

👋 Meet Sehrish Kanwal! 🇦🇺 Bioinformatics scientist at the University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research. As part of the Champions program, she maintains {RNAsum} for rOpenSci: a package for summarising and visualising RNA-seq data analysis results […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Extendimos el envío de resúmenes para #RSLA26 I Conferencia internacional de software de investigación en Latinoamérica (virtual, agosto 2026) 🗓️ Nueva fecha límite: 31 de mayo 💻 Para todas las personas que desarrollan, utilizan, y sostienen software de investigación. rs-latam.org

I'm back to working on the @pyladies-bot.bsky.social and @rladies-bot.bsky.social bots 🥰 Do you have a blog or a YouTube channel and want it featured? Let me know or learn more about it here: cosimameyer.github.io/community-bo... #pyladies #rladies

El miércoles compartimos un taller práctico en R con ARcenso 🇦🇷. Mucha gente se acercó para aprender a usarlo, explorar qué se puede hacer con datos censales y compartir preguntas e ideas en comunidad. Gracias @ropensci.org por acompañar desde el inicio 💜

RLadies is evolving 🌈 We’re excited to introduce RLadies+, a new identity that better reflects our community. The “+” doesn’t change our mission — it makes it visible. 🔗 Learn more about RLadies+: rladies.org/news/2026/re...

#MaintainerMonth spotlight! Meet Andrea Gómez Vargas Andrea is a sociologist and data analyst focused on population statistics and official data, developing R tools for the public sector. She is part of rOpenSci's Champions Program and maintains {ARcenso}. This […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

#MaintainerMonth highlight #RStats Meet Pao Corrales 🇦🇷 🇦🇺 Pao works as a Research Software Engineer to support research in climate and weather. She is an educator and maintains {agroclimatico}. This R package is a set of functions for calculating climate and […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

#MaintainerMonth spotlight! Meet Francesca Palmeira She is a biologist working on conservation conflicts and ecological modeling. Francesca participated on rOpenSci Champions Program, developing {pcir}, a package to calculate, compare, and visualize the […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

👋 Meet Carolina Pradier 🇦🇷 🇨🇦 She researches gender inequalities in science through bibliometrics. Maintainer of {eph}, Argentina's Permanent Household Survey Data and Manipulation Utilities. Carolina is a participant in the rOpenSci's Champions Program. Find […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

We listened. We reflected. We evolved. Meet RLadies+. A more inclusive identity for our global community. Because belonging matters. 🔗 Read more about the rebrand: rladies.org/news/2026/re...

👋 Meet Steffi Lazerte! 🇨🇦 Independent R Consultant and Teacher, Behavioural Ecologist, Citizen Science Enthusiast, and rOpenSci Community Assistant. She maintains {weathercan} that makes it easier to search for and download multiple months/years of historical […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Today we’re featuring Maëlle Salmon! 🇫🇷 R(esearch) Software Engineer and Blogger. She maintains {saperlipopette}, {babelquarto}, and {babeldown} for rOpenSci. 🐘 @maelle 💻 github.com/maelle 🌐 masalmon.eu #MaintainerMonth #rOpenSci #RStats

May is #MaintainerMonth! Meet the humans behind your favorite #RStats packages All month, we will spotlight the maintainers behind rOpenSci's software ecosystem. Stay tuned to meet them!

🗒️ [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. https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/05/06/mentors-2026/ #RStats #Mentoring #RSE #FOSS

📢 Contributor Office Hour (AMER) 📅 May 12, 09:00 - 10:00 PDT Join us online to - discuss how to get started contributing to R - get help/feedback on contributions you are working on - look at open bugs/work on translations together https://www.meetup.com/r-contributors/events/314420463

We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways #RStats.

💫 ¡Llamado Abierto! Hoy @goandre.bsky.social cuenta cómo su participación en el programa fortaleció su proyecto y la conectó con una comunidad internacional de software científico abierto. 📅 Postulaciones abiertas hasta febrero 20 Info: ropensci.org/es/blog/2026... vimeo.com/1160229509 #RStats

We are thrilled to announce Dr. Kari L. Jordan (@drkariljordan.carpentries.org) as a Keynote Speaker for useR! 2026 in Warsaw! Dr. Jordan will from her knowledge and experience deliver her talk: "The Work Behind the Work: Sustaining R Through Community" user2026.r-project.org #rstats #useR2026

🚀 Convocatoria abierta para el programa de Campeon(a|e)s de rOpenSci 2026-2027. 🌎 Cohorte en español centrada en Latinoamérica. Un viaje de 12 meses por la ciencia abierta, software de investigación y creación de comunidades. 📅 Fechas clave. La convocatoria abre: 12 de enero de 2026 […]

Software Libre de Investigacion en America Latina ropensci.org/es/commcalls...

New Year, New Colour Tool for you data visualizers and maybe the odd designer obumbratta.com/colour

🌈 The website for the inaugural rainbowR conference is now live! 🎉 🗓️ Save the date: Feb 25th-26th, 2026 📣 Call for submissions is open 👯 We're bringing together LGBTQ+ R users to promote our work and foster connections among community members conference.rainbowr.org