The rOpenSci Blog

Overview of programmatic ways to analyze and edit Markdown files: Markdown, R Markdown, Quarto, Hugo files, you name it.

• pandoc
• rmarkdown
• tinkr
• quarto
• markdown
• tech notes
• babeldown

Five leading open science organizations — The Carpentries, OLS, rOpenSci, pyOpenSci, and PREreview — are coming together for a strategic convening, supported by The Navigation Fund, to address shared challenges of underfunding, fragmentation, and unsustainable volunteer models.

• community
• collaboration
• funding

We have developed a prototype dashboard which aims to help organizations maintain complex systems of inter-dependent software components. Our initial prototype organizational dashboard provides insights into code contributors, their repositories, and maintenance status and needs. The prototype dashboard shows data for the three related GitHub organizations, reconhub, epiverse, and epiverse-trace, all of which develop and host open-source software for understanding and analysing epidemics. We aim to develop the current prototype as a template for adoption and adaptation by other open-source organizations....

• package development
• tech notes

Our second cohort of Champions completed the program. In this blog post, we share each champion’s projects, their achievements and outreach activities.

• community
• champions program
• packages

R-multiverse comm call, useR! 2025, posit::conf(2025), coworking, new package, package news

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