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Maëlle Salmon

rOpenSci Research Software Engineer, Associate editor of rOpenSci Software Peer Review

July 8, 2026
An API for Everything There Is to Know About Packages
July 7, 2026
Desarrollo de paquetes avanzado (capacitación para campeones)
June 30, 2026
Usar y mejorar tu historial de Git
June 23, 2026
¡Miércoles, Git!
June 18, 2026
Rencontres R 2026 - Nantes
May 26, 2026
Desarrollo de paquetes para principiantes (capacitación para campeones)
May 5, 2026
¡Código hermoso, porque lo valemos! (capacitación para campeones)
April 2, 2026
A Better R Programming Experience Thanks to Tree-sitter
March 2, 2026
rOpenSci Dev Guide 1.0.0: Trilingual and Improved
February 26, 2026
Software Review in the Era of AI: What We Are Testing at rOpenSci
January 27, 2026
How to Recruit a New Maintainer for Your Package
December 15, 2025
Better Code, Without Any Effort, Without Even AI
December 11, 2025
How to Assess Usage of your Package
December 2, 2025
LatinR 2025 - ¡Miércoles, Git!
November 26, 2025
uRos2025 - Bucharest
November 26, 2025
uRos2025 - Bucharest
October 22, 2025
Go for Launch! Packages Shipped to the R-Multiverse
October 14, 2025
Recognition Beyond Blog Post Authors
October 10, 2025
A Primer on Domain Verification
October 7, 2025
Social Coworking and Office Hours – Ship your R package to the R-multiverse!
September 30, 2025
Desarrollo de paquetes avanzado (capacitación para campeones)
September 18, 2025
Desarrollo de paquetes para principiantes (capacitación para campeones)
September 18, 2025
All the Ways to Programmatically Edit or Parse R Markdown / Quarto Documents
September 2, 2025
¡Código hermoso, porque lo valemos! (capacitación para campeones)
June 24, 2025
¡Miércoles, Git! Manejo de errores en Git y no morir en el intento
June 23, 2025
Multilingual Publishing: Frequently Asked Questions
June 20, 2025
Git, un gentil ‘push’ vers une meilleure maîtrise
May 27, 2025
Why Small Git Commits Matter (and How to Make Them!)
May 21, 2025
11èmes Rencontres R
May 13, 2025
Hack your way to a good git history
May 9, 2025
Roaringly Acknowledge Organizations with ROR IDs in DESCRIPTION
April 11, 2025
Un meilleur historique Git, sans difficulté
February 28, 2025
Better documentation for R-universe!
December 17, 2024
Introducing the rOpenSci Localization and Translation Guidelines
September 10, 2024
Capturing Screenshots Programmatically With R
July 11, 2024
useR! 2024 - Salzburg
June 13, 2024
Rencontres R 2024 - Vannes
May 17, 2024
Communication Tips for your Open-Source Project
March 18, 2024
An Example of the DRY/DAMP Principles for Package Tests
March 11, 2024
rOpenSci Dev Guide 0.9.0: Multilingual Now! And Better
March 7, 2024
Marketing Ideas For Your Package
March 1, 2024
Package Development: the Mechanics (champions training)
March 1, 2024
Package Development: Not Rocket Science (champions training)
March 1, 2024
Help make qualtRics better! Code contributions wanted
February 29, 2024
Help users and developers of targets by answering questions!
February 27, 2024
Help make assertr better! Come close issues
February 22, 2024
Beautiful Code, Because We’re Worth It!
February 19, 2024
Help make waywiser better! User requests wanted
February 15, 2024
Beautiful code, because we’re worth it! (champions training)
February 6, 2024
Please Shut Up! Verbosity Control in Packages
January 16, 2024
How to Update a Translation with Babeldown
September 26, 2023
How to Translate a Hugo Blog Post with Babeldown
September 19, 2023
Attract Contributors with ‘help wanted’ Issues
August 4, 2023
rOpenSci Champions Pilot Year: Training Wrap-Up
November 21, 2023
Multilingual Publishing
July 4, 2023
Social Coworking and Office Hours - Create/Update your ‘Happy File’/‘Brag Document’!
June 1, 2023
Troubleshooting Pandoc Problems as an R User
March 23, 2023
Package Development: Not Rocket Science (champions training)
March 14, 2023
Package Development: the Mechanics (champions training)
February 7, 2023
What Does It Mean to Maintain a Package?
January 12, 2023
Expanding our Community through Multilingual Publishing
October 17, 2022
Maintain or Co-Maintain an rOpenSci Package!
July 1, 2022
Evaluating GitHub Activity for Contributors
June 16, 2022
Why You Should (or Shouldn’t) Build an API Client
June 14, 2022
Communication & Collaboration with Contributors in an Open-Source Organization
June 9, 2022
rOpenSci Dev Guide 0.8.0: Updates
May 31, 2022
Editorial Automation: Why & How to Set Up Chat-Ops for your Own Review System on GitHub
May 16, 2022
Requiring 2FA for Our Main GitHub Organization
April 29, 2022
Don’t Lose your HEAD over Default Branches
April 19, 2022
Editorial Challenges and Solutions in Software Peer Review
March 22, 2022
Safeguards and Backups for GitHub Organizations
January 31, 2022
A Blend of Package Build Failures
December 20, 2021
rOpenSci Announces $400k Award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to Empower Historically Excluded Groups as Community Leaders in Scientific Open Source Projects
November 18, 2021
rOpenSci Dev Guide 0.7.0: Updates
December 7, 2021
Enhancing Software Peer Review with GitHub Automation
September 13, 2021
How to Use System Commands in your R Script or Package
June 24, 2021
How We Curate Our Monthly Newsletter
April 28, 2021
Set Up Your Package to Foster a Community - Community Call Summary
April 22, 2021
Set Up Your Package to Foster a Community
February 23, 2021
rOpenSci Dev Guide 0.6.0: Updates
February 16, 2021
Make Your R Package Easier to Cite
January 26, 2021
Learn All About HTTP Testing: Book Update
October 22, 2020
rOpenSci Dev Guide 0.5.0: Updates
July 16, 2020
CRAN Checks API News: Documentation, Notifications, and More
May 7, 2020
A Roundup of R Tools for Handling BibTeX
April 30, 2020
Highlights of Hugo Code Highlighting
April 23, 2020
Miscellaneous Wisdom about R Markdown & Hugo Gained from Work on our Website
April 14, 2020
rOpenSci Dev Guide 0.4.0: Updates
April 7, 2020
10 Things We Learned in Creating the Blog Guide with bookdown
December 19, 2019
We cleaned our website URLs with R!
October 8, 2019
rOpenSci Dev Guide 0.3.0: Updates
June 12, 2019
Taking over maintenance of a software package
May 21, 2019
rodev: helpers for rOpenSci package authors
May 16, 2019
rOpenSci Dev Guide 0.2.0: Updates Inside and Out
February 1, 2019
rOpenSci Software Peer Review: Still Improving
January 9, 2019
An even better rOpenSci website with Hugo
October 8, 2018
Distinguish yourself in CRAN person() with ORCID
October 1, 2018
tinkr: editing Markdown documents using XML tools
September 11, 2018
What have these birds been studied for? Querying science outputs with R
September 10, 2018
All the Badges One Can Earn: Parsing Badges of CRAN Packages READMEs
September 5, 2018
In praise of Commonmark: wrangle (R)Markdown files without regex
September 4, 2018
What are these birds? Complement occurrence data with taxonomy and traits information
August 28, 2018
What’s this bird? Classify old natural history drawings with R
August 21, 2018
What birds are observed near Radolfzell? Bird occurrence data in R
August 14, 2018
Where to go observe birds in Radolfzell? An answer with R and open data
June 7, 2018
Unconf18 projects 3: jobstatus, motifator, QcodeR, opencv, trackmd
June 5, 2018
Unconf18 projects 1: mchtoolbox, pkginspector, dataspice, rOpenSciEd, rOpenInterviews
May 10, 2018
The social weather of rOpenSci onboarding system
May 3, 2018
How much work is onboarding?
April 26, 2018
Rectangling onboarding
April 26, 2018
Our package reviews in review: Introducing a 3-post series about software onboarding data
April 17, 2018
The 2018 author and reviewer survey
March 16, 2018
Thanking Your Reviewers: Gratitude through Semantic Metadata
January 29, 2018
Introducing Maëlle Salmon, rOpenSci’s new Research Software Engineer
November 29, 2017
Announcing a New rOpenSci Software Review Collaboration
September 11, 2017
rOpenSci Software Review: Always Improving
September 1, 2017
How rOpenSci uses Code Review to Promote Reproducible Science
August 29, 2017
rtimicropem: Using an R package as platform for harmonized cleaning of data from RTI MicroPEM air quality sensors
August 1, 2017
emldown - From machine readable EML metadata to a pretty documentation website
February 21, 2017
ropenaq, a breath of fresh air/R

Editor

July 2, 2026
FOSS Tools for Lazy Editors
June 2, 2026
A New Guide: Organizing Events for First-time Contributors
December 17, 2025
Code Hosting Options Beyond GitHub
September 23, 2025
A Gentle Introduction to Open Science
September 11, 2025
Help Us Design a New Git(Hub) Organizational Dashboard
September 2, 2025
rOpenSci Champions Second Cohort: Projects Wrap-Up
November 26, 2024
Give Thanks with the allcontributors Package
August 20, 2024
My Experience With Long Term Maintenance Of An R Package

Packages

saperlipopette
Create Example Git Messes
babeldown
Helpers for Automatic Translation of Markdown-based Content
babelquarto
Renders a Multilingual Quarto Book
rotemplate
pkgdown template and utilities for rOpenSci docs
quartificate
Transform Google Docs into Quarto Books
aeolus
Unleash Useful Linebreaks in Markdown Documents
gitcellar
Helps Download Archives of GitHub Repositories
roblog
rOpenSci's blog guidance
riem
Accesses Weather Data from the Iowa Environment Mesonet
icepalace
Snapshot Current Versions of CRAN-like Repositories