While we are the third cohort of the Ropsci Champions programOur second cohort has now completed the second phase of the program. In this article we share the project of every champion, their performance and their outreach activities.
Champions’ projects
In their applications, champions choose to develop a new package or to participate in the assessment process as authors or reviewers.
New packages
Andrea Gomez Vargasfrom Argentina, the package developed bowTo give access to the official data of the national population in Argentina of the National Institute of Statistics and Census – InSC, and to make this historical census data available, homogenized and ready for use. Her mentor was Luis Verde From Mexico. You can learn more about the package in The blog post Andrea wrote about her project and her journey on the program.
Francesca Belem Lopes Palmeirafrom Brazil, called a new package called PCIR: ‘Potential for conflict index – PCI’What a descriptive statistical method is used to increase the understanding of the results in research into human dimensions. The package rests users with the tools needed for calculating, comparing and graphs of the potential for conflicts. Her mentor was Bruna Wundervald From Brazil.
Sungfrom Taiwan, who now lives in Canada, developed Bbstaiwan. This is an R package to collect and streamline Taiwan Breed Bird Survey (BBS). Bbstaiwan facilitates access to data from GBIF, where Taiwan BBS data is stored. Users can adjust species analysis, control data stratification, preparation and mapping. Sunny’s mentor was Eunseop Kim from South Korea, now lives in the US.
Erika Siregarfrom Indonesia, worked on developing RPLAYWRIGHT An R package seamlessly bridges with the Nodejs library, playwright, who makes simplified web tests and automation for R users possible. This package is intended to offer R users an extensive toolkit for the programmatic interaction with web browsers, which makes tasks such as browser automation, web scraping and end-to-end tests possible directly from the R environment. Her mentor was Apoor Anand from India.
Improving and assessing existing packages
Egensko Ejundapo from Nigeria, worked on the bulkreadr Package, a package that is designed to optimize the process of importing and processing large data sets, offering compatibility with various file formats of a series of statistical software and spreadsheets. Ezekiel worked on improved functions and launched the Official website of the package. His mentor was Francisco Cardozo From Colombia.
Liz Hare of the US, worked as a reviewer on the Software Peer Review of the emodnet.wfs Package, which offers helpers for access to Emodnet Web function service data via R. her mentor was François Michonneau from France.
Sehrish Kanwalfrom Australia, worked for the Rnasum R packageA RNA-SEQ reporting workflow designed to post output, summarize and visualize. Sehrish worked on the package and a paper over it. The Package website Present more information about the functionalities of the package. Her mentor was Emi Tanaka from Australia.
Jacqui Levyfrom Canada, worked on the ice cream packaging To clean up and calculate ice cycle variables from thousands of open-source hydrological stations that are managed by the water research of Canada. This R package gives scientists the tools to assess variables in the ice cycle and how they can change over time for every river station. Her mentor was Jonathan KeaneFrom the US.
Binod Jung Bogatifrom Nepal, worked on the hole Package, which offers an extensive and up-to-date tool for access to and exploring demographic, socio-economic and geographical data collected during the most recent census that is carried out in Nepal. The package aims to facilitate data analysis and visualization for researchers, policy makers and anyone interested in understanding and using census data effectively for different applications and insights. His mentor was HOOT HOLGERSEN from Canada.
Outreach activities
Our champions have carried out a wide range of outreach activities, including conversations, congress, workshops, blog articles, community calls and meetups. The aim of these activities was to share what they were doing and what they learned during the program with their communities outside Ropenci.
Outreach activities started in August 2024, concerned local communities (universities, carpets, chapters of R-Ladies, conferences and organizations) and were supplied in the native/preferred languages ​​of the champions (English, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese).
Liz Hare, member of this cohort, collaborated with Cagri, a champion from the first cohort to do outreach activities and also introduce their cohort mates to other communities and organizations that give them Space to share what they did during the Champions program.
Victor OrduFirst cohort champion, participated in the Unilorin Meetup organized by Ezekiel and spoke over Hands-on data cleaning in R with regular expressions.
Champions collaborated with their local communities to organize different types of events and spaces:
The community spaces of ROPENCI also benefited from the participation of the champions:
Champions also wrote blog posts for the ROPENCI website about technological aspects such as “Sources for using R with screen readers” by Liz Hare and also aspects such as the experience to be part of the program, such as “Bridges and communities. My journey as a Ropsci champion” By Andrea Vargas Gomez.
Academic publications are also part of the results of the champion work. Sehrish Kanwal, for example, has published a paper about the Rnasum R package.
Latinr, User!, Posit, Big Team Science and various other conferences were attended by our champions. Andrea, for example, presented the package that she developed during the program at the Latin -American conference on the use of R in R&D and the government prejudices in the statistical programming conference. In addition, Sunny, Andrea and Erika received stock exchanges to attend Posit Conn 2024 and Sunny and Andrea were able to participate. Erika and Andrea also presented their respective packages developed during the program at the user! 2025. Liz will develop ROPSCI, PACKAGE AND PEER REVIEW GID Big Team Science Conference 2025.
The performance of champions and next steps
Our champions have been very successful and have won a lot from their projects and their relationships with their mentors and their cohort mates. The impact of their work has enriched their home institutions, their local communities and Ropsci community. Their outreach activities shared information and knowledge in local AJD international contexts and promoted productive spaces such as R user groups.
Many of our champions will continue with their outreach activities and maintenance of their R package. Stay informed of their activities through our section Events and conversations on our website, our newsletter and social media!
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