We are excited to announce that R-Universe has been named the R Consortium’s newest Top-Level Project! We’re glad to be in the company of community and infrastructure projects that have been designated critical to the R Ecosystem, such as R-hub, DBI, R-Ladies, and the R User Group program, and we are grateful for the support of the R Consortium and its Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC)
The R Consortium supports the R community to help develop the infrastructure required to ensure the long-term stability and growth of the R Ecosystem. They have generously supported R-Universe for the past year. Now, in granting R-Universe top-level status, the R Consortium has committed to support us for three more years. This endorsement and investment will help us meet our goal of making R-Universe a sustainable and scalable platform for R package development that individuals and organizations can rely on. Jeroen Ooms, R-Universe’s lead developer, will also join the R-Consortium’s Infrastructure Steering Committee. We are glad to play a part in helping support important R community projects in the future!
R-Universe is rOpenSci’s platform for improving publication and discovery of research software in R. It serves as a global catalog of software, articles, and data found across R repositories. It is a software publication platform providing a fully automated pipeline for testing, building, and publishing R packages. It is also a meta-repository, providing common infrastructure for both individuals and organizations to manage custom R package repositories using their own approach to curation, release management, and quality control.
R-Universe already serves tens of thousands of packages published by over a thousand organizations, and we are excited for what’s ahead. This year, our aim is to improve features which serve groups that are building large-scale, collaborative repositories using R-Universe’s platform and API, like the new R-Multiverse. This includes support for things like development and production branches of universes, custom package checks, and manual approval steps so universe owners can curate and govern package collections as they see fit. We also plan to expand our contributor base through more documentation and partner outreach, and to improve performance and reliability as we continue to grow. We look forward to working with the R Community on making R-Universe a first-class home for R software.