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Bridges and Communities. My Journey as an rOpenSci Champion

Developing the ARcenso package with rOpenSci and presenting it to R communities

Roaringly Acknowledge Organizations with ROR IDs in DESCRIPTION

A few years ago, the R community started using ORCID (“Open Researcher and Contributor ID”) to persistently and uniquely identify individual authors of packages in DESCRIPTION. The idea is the following: you enter authors’ ORCID as a specially named comment in their person() object. For instance I can be represented by:

person("Maëlle", "Salmon", , "[email protected]", role = c("cre", "aut"),
       comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-2815-0399"))

Although anyone could use your ORCID, maliciously or inadvertently1, you definitely benefit from using your ORCID in your work. In the case of R packages, CRAN pages and pkgdown websites feature a pretty icon linking to your ORCID profile that in turn can link to your favorite online presence. Recognition! Personal branding!

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rOpenSci News Digest, April 2025

Career Paths for U.S. Federal Data Scientists, Website in Spanish

eDNAjoint: a Modeling Tool for Environmental DNA Data

A look at the new eDNAjoint package for joint modelling of eDNA and traditional species survey methods.

Supporting rOpenSci Mentors with Practical Tools

rOpenSci has developed a set of resources to support mentors in the Champions Program. In this post, we’ll walk you through what we’ve created and show how these resources can support your mentoring as well —whether you’re part of rOpenSci or mentoring in another context.

Working together to push science forward

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