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Yi-Chin Sunny Tseng shares how the rOpenSci Champions Program helped her grow from a first-time R package developer into an open science contributor, creating tools for biodiversity research and discovering new opportunities along the way.

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Champions Program; R-Universe update; Quinceañera; new packages and package news

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How to Access and Process the 1970 and 1980 Argentine Censuses Using R

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Attentive package authors already noticed something new in their r-universe page over the past few weeks: R-universe has quietly started building and checking packages for Windows ARM64.

• https://ropensci.r-universe.dev/pdftools#checktable
• https://cran.r-universe.dev/dplyr#checktable
• https://bioc-release.r-universe.dev/S4Vectors#checktable

R-universe has supported ARM64 on Linux and macOS for some time already, but not Windows. With this addition, packages are now built and checked on both x86_64 and ARM64 across all major operating systems, making the R ecosystem fully ARM ready.

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