Dear Ropenci -Friends, it’s time for our monthly news round! You can read this message On our blog. Now let’s dive in the activity on and around Ropsci!
Ropsci headquarters
Community call: “R-multiverse: a new way to publicing r packages”
On Monday, September 29, 2025 14:00 UTC, we will have one Community Call About the R-multiverse, with the leading role Will Landau!
R-multiverse is a new double repository for R packages, based on infrastructure of R-Universe and Github. We want to invite the developer community to contribute.
With R-cultures, users have a central place for installing packages. Automated quarterly production -snapshots maintain quality.
Package managers retain most of the freedom and flexibility of self -publication. Maintenance managers arrange a direct package via Github or Gitlab.
R-culturals comes from the R-Consortium repositories working group. It has transparent administration and works on a collaboration and open road.
Read more about the events.
Ropsci with user! 2025
Members of our team and our community were present at and enjoyed, user! 2025!
Under, Mentor Luis D. Verde Arrekitia, champion Andrea Gomez Vargas, director Noam Ross, community manager Yani Bellina Sibbene; At the top left, Yani with repeated Pakketrecsover Sheila Saia; At the top right, yani with goals maker will landau; Below, Yani with Redlist -Submeer William Garty.
You can view videos from
Ropsci on posit :: Con (2025)
Likewise, members of our team and community will be present Posit :: Con (2025) September 16-18 in Atlanta (US).
We look forward to seeing you there!
Virtual experience -Not free for all this year, but free for students / academics (and based on needs). See the prize page.
Ropsci in the news
Our community manager Yanina Bellini Sibbene was interviewed again in Naturefor the article “Six questions to ask before they jump into a spreadsheet”
“There is a kind of opinion that a spreadsheet is not a good tool to do science,” says Yanina Bellini Sibbene, “and that is not correct.”
Coworking
Read Everything about Coworking!
And don’t forget that you can always work independently of work, work on packages that tend to be neglected, or work on whatever you should do!
Software 📦
New packages
The following three packages recently became part of our software suite:
attemptDeveloped by Alasdair Warwick together with Robert Luben, Abraham Olvera-Barrios and Chuin Ying Ung: offers a handy R-interface for the National Health Service NHS Technology Reference Distribution (Trud) Api, allowing users to mention available releases for their subscribed items. For more information about the API, see https://isd.digital.nhs.uk/trud/users/guest/filters/0/api. It is available on Kran. It has been assessed By Jon Clayden and Alexandros Kouretsis.
SasquatchDeveloped by Ryan Zomorrodi: Use R and SAS within reproducible multilingual quarto documents. Perform SAS cod blocks interactively, send data back and forth between SAS and R and make SAS output in quarto documents. SAS connections are created by a combination of Saspy and reticular. It has been assessed by Nic Crane.
datasetDeveloped by Daniel Antal: The dataset package helps to create semantic rich, machine-readable and interoperable data sets in R. It expands neat data frames with metadata that preserves meaning, improves interoperability and making data sets easier to publish, change and re-use with ISO and re-use. It is available on Kran. It has been assessed By Marcelo Perlin, Anna Márta Mester and Mauro Lepore.
Discover More packagesRead more about Software Peer Review.
New versions
The next twenty -seven packages have had an update since the last newsletter: Sits ((v1.5.3),),, Arxiv ((0.12),),, beist ((v2.5.2),),, raven ((v2.6.15-pre-cran),),, C3DR ((v0.2.0),),, chrome ((v0.10),),, Believe ((0.3.0),),, dataset ((0.4.0),),, Date Fixr ((v2.0.0),),, dendronetwork ((0.5.5),),, ditto ((v0.1.9),),, Gsodr ((v4.1.4),),, Gtexr ((v0.2.1),),, osmapir ((v0.2.4),),, osm data ((v0.3.0),),, parent ((v0.4.2),),, quack ((v3.2.2),),, Sweep ((3.0.0),),, Rnaturalearth ((v1.1.0),),, list ((v1.1.0),),, Sasquatch ((v0.1.0),),, shave ((v2.2.0),),, spatoc ((v0.2.9),),, taxa ((v0.4.4),),, attempt ((v0.2.0-JOSS),),, WCRCRCH ((v2.0.0), And weather ((v0.7.5).
Software Peer Review
Seventeen recently closed and active entries and 5 entries are on hold. Problems are in different phases:
Read more about Software Peer Review And how you can participate.
On the blog
Call for contributions
Calls on for under holders
If you are interested in maintaining one of the R -packages below, please read our blog post What does it mean to maintain a package?.
Call for contributions
Consult our Help Wanted Page – Before we open a PR, we recommend asking if help is still needed.
Package development angle
Some useful tips for R package developers. 👀
user! 2025 Recordings
The recordings of the conversations for user! 2025 Virtual component has been posted YouTube. Among the various topics:
The keynote conversations have been streamed in one other YouTube channel Where you can view them now.
New R option to control amusement
For those of you who are interested in Checking package of surprisesKlaus Vigo help reported that “R4.6 is sent with a little more surprise check’
New logical
option()quietfail to False, set upTRUEBy R’s command rule option--quiet(and similar), can now be switched during an R session. Entered by the proposal of Dirk Eddelbuettel in PR#18913.
Quarto Vignetten on Windows on Github promotions
As noted by Sam Rogers in the ROPSCI Slack workspace, if you use quarto vignettes, you can come across an error on Github actions where it fails because “the package is not installed”. Thanks to Gábor Csárdi and Christophe Dervieux for entering. The solution is to add local::. under setup-r-dependencies to the field, as explained by James Balamuta in the Relevant Github problem.
Last words
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