rOpenSci | Graceful Internet Packages · Community Call
Thursday, November 6, 2025

Graceful Internet Packages

🕓 Thursday, 06 November 2025 15:00 UTC -

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Join us for our next Community Call, “Graceful Internet Packages,” featuring Matthias, Tan, and Salix. In this session, we’ll explore how to design and maintain R packages that interact with online data sources. Our speakers will share practical lessons, examples, and best practices to help R package developers create reliable packages.

Speakers

Portrait of Salix Dubois
Salix Dubois

With a background in art and biology, Salix is a self-taught programmer fluent in web technologies, R, and C++. An enthusiastic problem solver, they are passionate about open science and making research more accessible. They are the maintainer of the boldR package and work as a software analyst and web developer.

Portrait of Tan Ho
Tan Ho

Tan is a self-taught programmer who loves R, Shiny, NFL, and carving pumpkins. By day, he is an Engineering Manager for Teamworks Intelligence Soccer. Tan developed the DynastyProcess fantasy football Shiny app, maintains nflverse and ffverse pipelines and packages for NFL analytics, and mentors at DSLC Slack Community. You can find more about Tan at tanho.ca.

Portrait of Matthias Grenié
Matthias Grenié

Matthias is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Grenoble (France) at the Alpine Ecology Laboratory where he focuses his research on the distribution of plant functional traits at large scales. For his research he developed several R packages dealing with plant functional traits like fundiversity. You can learn more about his work on his website