14  Marketing your package

We will help you promoting your package but here are some more things to keep in mind.

• If you hear of an use case of your package, please encourage its author to post the link to our discussion forum in the Use Cases category, for a toot (Mastodon post) from rOpenSci and inclusion in the rOpenSci monthly newsletter. We also recommend you to add a link to the use case in a “use cases in the wild” section of your README.

• Post about your package on Mastodon using the “#rstats” hashtag and tag rOpenSci! This might help with contributor/user engagement. Example posts from rOpenSci itself: A package a day, Help wanted post, Use cases, Welcome post.

• When you release a new version of your package or release it to CRAN for the first time,

  • Make a pull request to R Weekly with a line about the release under the “New Releases” section (or “New Packages” for the first GitHub/CRAN release).

  • Post about it on social media.

  • Consider submitting a short post about the release to rOpenSci tech notes. Contact rOpenSci Community Manager, (e.g. via Slack or info@ropensci.org). Refer to the guidelines about contributing a blog post).

  • Submit your package to lists of packages such as CRAN Task Views.

• If you choose to market your package by giving a talk about it at a meetup or conference (excellent idea!) read this article of Jenny Bryan’s and Mara Averick’s.