--- title: Carolina Pradier, rOpenSci champion and mentor | daily.dev description: Carolina Pradier, maintainer of the R package eph, shares her experience in the rOpenSci Champions Program in this interview. The eph package processes... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/carolina-pradier-ropensci-champion-and-mentor-wybghvphi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Carolina Pradier, rOpenSci champion and mentor | daily.dev og:description: Carolina Pradier, maintainer of the R package eph, shares her experience in the rOpenSci Champions Program in this interview. The eph package processes... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/carolina-pradier-ropensci-champion-and-mentor-wybghvphi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/wYBGHvPhI.png og:image:alt: Carolina Pradier, rOpenSci champion and mentor og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Carolina Pradier, rOpenSci champion and mentor **[R-bloggers](https://daily.dev/sources/rbloggers)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Carolina Pradier, maintainer of the R package eph, shares her experience in the rOpenSci Champions Program in this interview. The eph package processes Argentina's Permanent Household Survey data from INDEC, letting researchers replicate or run independent analyses beyond official government reports. Over 12 months of mentoring, she improved the package's code quality, documentation, and added new functions, and translated docs into Spanish. Her work inspired PyEPH, a Python library with a similar purpose. She is now handing off maintenance to a new maintainer. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What does the eph R package do? The eph package processes data from Argentina's Permanent Household Survey (INDEC) so researchers can replicate or independently analyze data beyond what's in official government reports. It also enables analysis of categories and indicators not covered in the official reports. It inspired a similar Python library called PyEPH, maintained by the Python data community. _Developers exploring open-source data tooling for social science can follow package ecosystems like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Eleven Latin American Voices for Open Science: The New Cohort of Champions rOpenSci 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/eleven-latin-american-voices-for-open-science-the-new-cohort-of-champions-ropensci-2026-w0ddgyvpe) · R-bloggers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Happy Birthday rOpenSci — My Journey from First-Time Developer to Current Opportunities](https://daily.dev/posts/happy-birthday-ropensci-my-journey-from-first-time-developer-to-current-opportunities-iwkpl3dzw) · R-bloggers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Open call for the rOpenSci Champions Program 2026\!](https://daily.dev/posts/open-call-for-the-ropensci-champions-program-2026--251sm8lge) · R-bloggers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Showing Our Work](https://daily.dev/posts/showing-our-work-ydzlpqjbp) · Andrew Nesbitt · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Humans of EuroPython: Rodrigo Girão Serrão](https://daily.dev/posts/humans-of-europython-rodrigo-gir-o-serr-o-twjl2zdyp) · Planet Python · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#r](https://daily.dev/tags/r) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/carolina-pradier-ropensci-champion-and-mentor-wybghvphi) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Carolina Pradier, rOpenSci champion and mentor","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/carolina-pradier-ropensci-champion-and-mentor-wybghvphi","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/carolina-pradier-ropensci-champion-and-mentor-wybghvphi"},"datePublished":"2026-11-02T11:49:29.900Z","dateModified":"2026-11-02T11:49:51.123Z","description":"Carolina Pradier, maintainer of the R package eph, shares her experience in the rOpenSci Champions Program in this interview. 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