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rOpenSci

rOpenSci
United States of America
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About

Launched: 2011
Record Updated: Nov 11, 2024
Peer review system
Research software community
- rOpenSci is a research software community that includes member support, training program, events, and initiatives to support reproducibility, sustainability, and inclusion in scientific open-source software development.
- rOpenSci conducts peer-review of research software and maintains infrastructure to manage the software peer-review process.
- rOpenSci develops and manages infrastructure for testing, publishing, and discovery of R packages, primarily our R-Universe platform.
- rOpenSci maintains a variety of software tools that are both part of the core R ecosystem and also facilitate research through statistical methods and managing the research data lifecycle.
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Mission

rOpenSci fosters a culture that values open and reproducible research using shared data and reusable software
We do this by:
Creating technical infrastructure in the form of carefully vetted, staff and community-contributed R software tools that lower barriers to working with scientific data sources on the web
Making the right data, tools and best practices more discoverable
Creating social infrastructure through a welcoming and diverse community
Promoting advocacy for a culture of data sharing and reusable software
Building capacity of software users and developers and fostering a sense of pride in their work

Key Achievements

- Passed over 300 research software packages peer-reviewed
- Passed over 1200 organizations hosting research software on our R-Universe platform
- Migrated our core documentation and software peer-review process to Spanish
- Had our first succession of Executive Director, with Noam Ross taking on the role from Karthik Ram

Technical Attributes

Maintenance Status

Actively Maintained

Open Code Repository

Implemented
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Technical Documentation

Implemented
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Technical Attribute Statements

Technology Readiness Level

  • Actual system proven in operational environment

Code Licenses Used

  • MIT License

Content Licensing

  • Creative commons licenses

Standards

Additional Information

Organizational History

rOpenSci is a non-profit initiative founded in 2011 by Karthik Ram, Scott Chamberlain, and Carl Boettiger. Initially primarily focused on extending tools in the R language to facilitate exchange of open data, rOpenSci has expanded to community organization that manages peer-review of scientific R packages, maintains core infrastructure for the R scientific software ecosystem, conducts training and events focused on expanding participation and diversity of contributors, manages a community of scientific software developers providing mutual support in software maintenance, other initiatives in scientific software development, sustainability, and diversity and inclusion.

Organizational Structure

Business or Ownership Model

Fiscal sponsorship (non-profit)

Full-time Staff

1-5

Current Affiliations

NUMFocus is ROpenSci's fiscal sponsor.

Funding

Primary Funding Source

  • Contributions
Other:
Grants
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