rOpenSci will be at LatinR 2026! From November 11 to 13, the Latin American Conference on the Use of R in R&D comes to Medellín, Colombia, and our community will be all over the program.
Staff, editors, champions, mentors and community members will give a keynote, two tutorials and several talks, and will mentor at HackeaR, the conference hackathon to contribute to base R and rOpenSci projects.
Here is where to find us. If you’ll be in Medellín, come say hi! 📍 Medellín, Colombia · November 11–13, 2026 · All times local (UTC-5) 🔗 Full program: https://latinr.org/cronograma/programa/detallado.html
Wednesday, November 11
Tutorial: LLMs in R using {ellmer} (English) 8:30–12:00 · Auditorio principal Nic Crane (rOpenSci community member) How to use LLMs programmatically in R with ellmer: connecting to LLM APIs, extracting structured data from unstructured text, and letting LLMs call R functions and access external sources for more reliable results. More info
Tutorial: De idea a paquete: programá tu primer paquete de R (Spanish) 14:00–17:30 · Auditorio 2 Yanina Bellini Saibene (rOpenSci Community Manager) A hands-on workshop to turn an idea into an R package: project organization, coding, documentation, testing and publishing, including the use of AI (GitHub Copilot) as a development assistant. More info
Thursday, November 12
Keynote: Learning with AI: Code, Data, and Life 8:30–9:30 Nic Crane (rOpenSci community member)
Session “Paquetes, frameworks e infraestructura”, 10:00–12:00 · Auditorio 1
Continuing our journey through the R universe Jeroen Ooms (rOpenSci Lead Infrastructure Engineer) A second mission through R-universe: how to navigate the ecosystem, use its APIs and tools, and make your packages more visible and easier to find.
Currículo del Programa de Campeon(a|e)s de rOpenSci para el desarrollo y mantenimiento de paquetes de R Yanina Bellini Saibene (rOpenSci staff), Maëlle Salmon (rOpenSci staff), Paola Corrales (rOpenSci Champion 2022–2023 and Mentor), Alejandra Bellini The open curriculum of the rOpenSci Champions Program, in Spanish and English: its pedagogical approach, materials, and the results of independent evaluations.
Explorando el lupus en México: datos abiertos y análisis reproducibles en R Evelia Lorena Coss Navarrete (rOpenSci Champion 2026–2027) A data package for learning R and bioinformatics, built from transcriptomic data of Mexican women with lupus and healthy controls.
Friday, November 13
HackeaR: contribution hackathon to base R and rOpenSci projects 8:00–10:00 · Auditorio principal Two hours of work in small groups to make real contributions to base R and rOpenSci projects: analyzing R bugs, proposing fixes, working on issues and reviewing translations of rOpenSci materials. Newcomers welcome! Mentors from the rOpenSci community:
- Yanina Bellini Saibene (staff, co-organizer)
- Jeroen Ooms (staff)
- Beatriz Milz (Software Peer Review Editor and Champions Mentor)
- Paola Corrales (Champion and Mentor)
- Elio Campitelli (Champions Mentor)
- Luis D. Verde Arregoitia (Champions Mentor)
- Francisco Cardozo (Champions Mentor)
- Diana Garcia (Champion 2025–2026)
Together with Riva Quiroga, Heather Turner and Ella Kaye. More info · rOpenSci Help Wanted issues · R Devel HackeaR dashboard
El valor de aprender y enseñar R en la era de la IA 10:30–12:10 (session “Inteligencia artificial”) · Auditorio 1 Luis D. Verde Arregoitia (rOpenSci Champions Mentor) and Jesica Formoso How generative AI tools affect R teaching, and a proposal to adapt education by focusing on understanding and modifying AI-generated code and on the value of communities.
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