--- title: rOpenSci News Digest, January 2026 | daily.dev description: rOpenSci's January 2026 newsletter announces the opening of applications for their Champions Program 2026 (Spanish-language, Latin America focus, deadline... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ropensci-news-digest-january-2026-tmva5lrc6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: rOpenSci News Digest, January 2026 | daily.dev og:description: rOpenSci's January 2026 newsletter announces the opening of applications for their Champions Program 2026 (Spanish-language, Latin America focus, deadline... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ropensci-news-digest-january-2026-tmva5lrc6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/tmva5Lrc6.png og:image:alt: rOpenSci News Digest, January 2026 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. # rOpenSci News Digest, January 2026 **[R-bloggers](https://daily.dev/sources/rbloggers)** · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary rOpenSci's January 2026 newsletter announces the opening of applications for their Champions Program 2026 (Spanish-language, Latin America focus, deadline February 20). The organization released their 2025 wrap-up and Code of Conduct transparency report. Two new R packages joined their suite: read.abares (Australian agricultural data) and dfms (Dynamic Factor Models). The newsletter covers 17 package updates, 18 active software peer review submissions, recent blog posts on package maintenance and R-universe workflows, and community calls for package maintainers. Development tips include coverage badges without third-party services, dynamic Rd file content, and discussions on AI-generated contributions to open source projects. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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