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SAN FRANCISCO, May 2, 2022 – The R Consortium, a Linux Foundation project supporting the R Foundation and worldwide R community, today announced that Pfizer has joined as a Silver…
Announcing R/Medicine 2022! The conference will be fully virtual from August 23 through 26 and feature two days of workshops (included with the low registration fee!) and two days of keynotes featuring…
R Consortium recently talked to Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez of Seville R User Group (also on Twitter) about the growth of the group over the years and the challenges of online events.…
The R Consortium is pleased to announce the new 2022 R User Groups (RUGs), Conferences and Training program. This is an updated version of the RUGS program of previous years…
The first 2022 call for proposals for R Consortium Infrastructure Steering (ISC) grants is now open and will be accepting proposals through May 1, 2022. This year, the R Consortium has…
“A worldwide epidemiological database for COVID-19 at fine-grained spatial resolution” by COVID-19 Data Hub developer, Emanuele Guidotti was published in Scientific Data on the March 28, 2022, and is available…
R Consortium talked to Bolaram Paul of the Sylhet R User Group about the challenges faced by the group because of the pandemic. As a group focused on physical events,…
The R Consortium is happy to announce that the R Submissions Working Group successfully completed the follow-up to the original pilot 1 eCTD submission! All submission materials can be found…
R Consortium recently caught up with Emmanuel Olamijuwon and Nontsikelelo Shongwe, organizers of the Eswatini R Users Group (Twitter: EswatiniUseR). They discussed how the R user base is growing in…
From the rOpenSci Project The rOpenSci project, a developer collective that develops tools and fosters community to enable open science with R, is hiring a new community manager. rOpenSci is…
Recent update by Marly Cormar on the Risk Assessment Shiny App. Marly is an executive committee member of the R Validation Hub where she advocates for the use of R…
R Consortium recently talked with Aurora González Vidal of UMUR Asociación de Usuarios de R Murcia (Also on Twitter). She covered the historic involvement of Murcia in the evolution of…
Anicet Ebou is a PhD student in Bioinformatics at the Institut National Polytechnique Félix HOUPHOUËT-BOIGNY de Yamoussoukro (INP-HB), Ivory Coast. He works as a bioinformatician to design tools and methods…
R Consortium talked to Denisse Fierro Arcos of the R-Ladies Galapagos Chapter (also on Twitter) about the struggles of managing an R-Ladies group during the pandemic. Denisse talked about the…
Tell us about yourself My name is Dattijo Murtala Makama, I am currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at the National Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (NCAIR). I…
Salt Lake City R User Group noticed that their users were missing something during their online meetings. R Consortium talks to Julia Silge about how they planned on mixing online…
The R consortium recently checked in with Vebashini Naidoo, one of the organizers of the R-Ladies Johannesburg. The group started in July 2018 and has so far had 19 physical meetings…
The R Consortium recently reached out to Umar Isah Adam to find out more about the status of the R User Group Kano. Umar is a freelance data analyst who…
Folajimi Aroloye is a data analytics professional and educator. He is the organizer for the Lagos R User Group. He is involved in capacity building. Folajimi started his data science…
Alimi Eyitayo is a Graduate of Computer Engineering and a social engineering professional with over 12 years of experience in the field of information technology. She is an international speaker…
R consortium had a discussion with Asimbongeni Dhlodhlo, one of the key leaders spearheading the ZimR UseRs group in Zimbabwe. He talks on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected them…
Jonathan Lin of the Calgary R User group (meetup | website) talks to R Consortium about their adaptation into the COVID world and their struggles with the higher production value…
The R consortium spoke with Timothy Ogunleye on adapting to fit the system during the lockdown. We found out how they were able to adjust and move from having so…
R Consortium talked to Raoul Wolf of the Oslo UseR! Group about the wide adoption of R in Norway, both in academia and industry. He explained how the pandemic initially…
The R Consortium is happy to announce that on Nov 22nd, 2021, the R Submissions Working Group successfully submitted an R-based test submission package through the FDA eCTD gateway! The…
The R Consortium’s R Tables for Regulatory Submissions (RTRS) Working Group has made considerable progress in identifying and working through the issues involved with developing a modern R based framework…
The R-Consortium talked to Novica Nakov of R Skopje about the challenges of managing an R User Group during the pandemic. Novica told us about the budding R community in…
By Di Cook, Mitch O'Hara-Wild, H. Sherry Zhang, Stephanie Kobakian, Michael Kane, Catherine Hurley, Simon Urbanek The R Journal is a primary outlet for publishing research of interest to the R community.…
The R consortium talked to Mustafa CAVUS of the Eskisehir R Users Group (also on Twitter) about handling group activities during the pandemic. Mustafa shared that online events during the…
One of the difficult parts of running a group in an online space is maintaining social interactions that you would normally foster with in-person meetups. R Consortium talks to Adnan…
To understand what R Ladies in Santiago is like, R Consortium talked to Riva Quiroga about how they are dealing with organizing and meeting during the pandemic. We also discussed…
By Amanda Hart, Co-organizer of South Coast MA UseR Group 2020 was a year of firsts: first global pandemic in my lifetime, first year working remotely, first year not traveling…
It can be difficult running an R user group in a country where R does not have a large following. R Consortium talked with Francis Mensah, who runs the R…
R consortium talks to Nino Macharashvili of DataFest Tbilisi (also on Facebook) on how they are dealing with life in the COVID age. As they were one of the early…
The largest data journalism conference in Latin America reaches its sixth edition in a row bringing discussions on the climate crisis, access to information, and data protection, in addition to…
R Consortium talks to Harvey Lieberman on their growth both pre and post COVID. They have adapted in a way that promotes R in Pharma as well as allowing them…
During the pandemic, we have seen a lot of growth within the R community. Recently, R Consortium talked to Emilio López Cano, president of R Hispano, about the growth of…
The deadline for submitting proposals is October 31, 2021. The September 2021 ISC Call for Proposals is now open. The R Consortium’s Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) solicits progressive, pioneering projects…
Originally posted on Mango Solutions website The Enterprise Applications of the R Language Conference (EARL) is a cross-sector conference focusing on the commercial use of the R programming language. The…
Bilikisu Aderinto, Founder/Organizer of the Abuja R User Group and R-Ladies Abuja, talks about the lack of R User groups in her area, and her desire to start one, leading…
R Consortium talks to LA R Users founder Szilard Pafka about how the community started, how they adapted to the pandemic and how things have evolved in the past fifteen…
Upcoming event: PSI Scientific Meeting: Generating Insights through Modern Applications of Data Visualisation While data visualisation has been used to gain insights into medical data for over 150 years, modern methods including…
By Sergio Garcia Mora R4HR, formerly known as the Club de R para RRHH, is a Latin American based community whose mission is to spread the adoption of R in…
R Consortium talks to Laura Swales of the London R User Group on how they are dealing with COVID and changing some of the basics of their meeting. As they…
By Mehar Pratap Singh, CEO and Founder – ProCogia R consortium fulfills a unique need in the growing data science space. Also, R language resources are critical tools in the data-driven…
R Consortium talks to Yanina Bellini Saibene, Riva Quiroga, and Natalia da Silva on starting up a conference in Latin America, the importance of networking, and some of the difficulties…
R Consortium talks to Daniela Vázquez of R Ladies Montevideo on how they are building community in Latin America and trying to host a conference that people would attend. The…
By Samantha Toet, Derrick Kearney, Sydeaka Watson, Gwynn Sturdevant, Kevin O’Brien, and Joe Rickert We’re trying something new and we want your support. One of the goals of the R-Consortium…
Stephan Kadauke, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology and Lab Medicine. He runs the Cell and Gene Therapy Lab at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and…
During this Working with Databases in R online presentation, Christopher Maronga shares his years of practical experience in accessing and working with Databases in R. R Consortium assisted by providing…
The R Conference has been able to thrive with the changes that have occurred due to COVID. They also are planning for life post-COVID, with the lessons that they have…
R Consortium talked with Jared Lander about the R Community in the New York Metro area. The R Community's ability to draw upon not only their large metro area as…
R Consortium talked to Bioconductor Asia co-organizer Matt Ritchie about the upcoming conference (BioC Asia 2021), how COVID has affected attendance at the conference, and how they deal with multilingualism…
Authored by: the R-Ladies Philly organizing team Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, R-Ladies Philly has shifted from local in-person meetups to virtual events. Hundreds of…
R Consortium’s R User Group and Small Conference Support Program (RUGS) provides grants to help R groups around the world organize, share information and support each other. The wealth of…
R Consortium’s R User Group and Small Conference Support Program (RUGS) provides grants to help R groups around the world organize, share information and support each other. The wealth of…
Kristen Chan, R-Ladies Taipei organizer R Consortium’s R User Group and Small Conference Support Program (RUGS) is made to support R groups around the world by providing grants to help…
R Consortium’s R User Group and Small Conference Support Program (RUGS) provides grants to help R groups around the world organize, share information and support each other. The wealth of…
GSK providing COVID era leadership, helping adoption of R Language as standard tool for pharmaceutical industry SAN FRANCISCO, May 4, 2021 – The R Consortium, a Linux Foundation project supporting…
R Consortium’s R User Group and Small Conference Support Program (RUGS) provides grants to help R groups around the world organize, share information and support each other. The wealth of…
The deadline for submitting proposals is April 19, 2021. The March 2021 ISC Call for Proposals is now open. The R Consortium’s Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) solicits progressive, pioneering projects that…
Join us March 18, 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. PDT. More information! The role of data journalists in the scientific process has traditionally been overlooked. However, the most recent pandemic…
On November 2 - 7, 2020, the 5th edition of the Brazilian Conference on Data Journalism and Digital Methods (CODA.Br) took place with 50 national and international guest speakers and…
On February 7th, 2021, in the very first in the Why R? World Series, Kevin O'Brien of the Why R? Foundation spoke with Nontsikelelo Shongwe, an enthusiastic R user from…
by Emanuele Guidotti & David Ardia, originally published in the Journal of Open Source Software In December 2019 the first cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology were reported in Wuhan…
source: R User Groups on meetup.com - 35 countries • 85 groups • 65,200+ members The R Consortium is excited to announce the 2021 R User Group and Small Conference Support Program (RUGS). We…
Citizen science is a critical engine for creating professional tools that become new standards in epidemic outbreak response. The problem is connecting people on the front lines - “COVID-19 response…
Originally published in the TIBCO Community Blog, by Adam Faskowitz As COVID-19 continues to impact people’s lives, we are interested in predicting case trends of the near future. Trying to…
Originally published in the TIBCO Community Blog, by Adam Faskowitz R0, the basic reproduction number, and Rt, the time-varying reproduction number, are quantities used when trying to understand the reproduction…
Originally published in the TIBCO Community Blog, by Adam Faskowitz TIBCO Spotfire is a unique platform that combines advanced visualization and data science techniques. The culmination of its capabilities can…
The R Consortium’s COVID-19 Working Group is providing a new home for the COVID-19 Data Hub Project. The goal of the COVID-19 Data Hub is to provide the worldwide research…
Thurs, December 10th, 9am PDT/12pm EDT/18:00 CEST – Register now! Hosted by the COVID-19 Data Forum/Stanford Data Science Initiative/R Consortium Join the R Consortium and learn about mobility data in…
This November 2nd-7th, 2020, the 5th edition of the Brazilian Conference on Data Journalism and Digital Methods (Coda.Br) will be taking place with 50 national and international guest speakers and…
The R/Pharma virtual conference this year was held October 13-15th, 2020. R/Pharma focuses on the use of R in the development of pharmaceuticals, covering topics from reproducible research to drug…
The deadline for submitting proposals is midnight, October 1st, 2020. The September 2020 ISC Call for Proposals is now open. The R Consortium’s Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) solicits progressive, pioneering projects…
Originally posted on the R Hub blog JS and R, what a clickbait! Come for JS, stay for our posts about Solaris and WinBuilder. 😉 No matter how strongly you believe in JavaScript…
The second COVID-19 Data Forum, co-sponsored by the Stanford Data Science Institute and the R Consortium, was held August 13, 2020. This series of forums brings together experts working to…
This fall, the R Consortium's support for advancing data science in medicine continues with the third of three exceptional events, pulling together experts in their fields, including the Covid-19 Data Forum,…
August 27-29, 5:30am PDT / 8:30am EDT / 2:30pm CEST – Register now! Brought to you by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Yale School of Public Health, and the R…
Thurs, August 13th, 9am PDT/12pm EDT/18:00 CEST - Register now! Hosted by the COVID-19 Data Forum/Stanford Data Science Initiative/R ConsortiumCOVID-19 is the first pandemic to occur in the age of…
This useR!2020 session and video was organized by Laura Acion, Yanina Bellini Saibene, Paola Corrales, and Paloma Rojas Saunero. Leonardo Collado Torres coordinated the blog post submission. On June 19th, 2020,…
R Consortium interview with Dr. Heather Turner, Chair of Forwards, the R Foundation taskforce for underrepresented groups in the R Community In January, R Consortium posted about a crowd-funding campaign…
Originally posted on the R Hub blog This post was contributed by Peter Li. Thank you, Peter! packageRank is an R package that helps put package download counts into context. It does…
Bringing the R community together against COVID-19 Originally posted on the R Epidemics Consortium blog We are proud to announce that the R Consortium has awarded RECON a grant for $23,300 to…
The first COVID-19 Data Forum, co-sponsored by the Stanford Data Science Institute and the R Consortium, was held May 14, 2020. The forum used Zoom as a way to connect…
The Stanford Data Science Institute, which aims to give Stanford faculty and students the tools, skills and understanding they need to do cutting-edge research, is joining with the R Consortium…
The R Consortium helps provide all sorts of resources to projects, companies, and events to help build R infrastructure and expand the R community. We have given out grants over…
By Rachael Dempsey, Senior Enterprise Advocate at RStudio / Greater Boston useR Organizer Last month, the Boston useR Group held our very first virtual meetup and opened this up to…
Esri, international supplier of geographic information system software, web GIS and geodatabase management applications, is providing a comprehensive set of resources for researchers and others mapping the spread of the…
By Leonardo Collado Torres, Ph. D., Research Scientist, Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Brain genomics #rstats coder working w/ @andrewejaffe @LieberInstitute. @lcgunam @jhubiostat @jtleek alumni. @LIBDrstats @CDSBMexico co-founder I have…
The March 2020 ISC Call for Proposals is now open. Once again, we are looking for ambitious projects that will contribute to the infrastructure of the R ecosystem and benefit…
Services include R consulting, development, and training; contributes to multiple R open source projects including golem, framework for building robust Shiny apps SAN FRANCISCO, March 3, 2020 – The R…
By Benaiah Ubah, Claudia Vitolo and Rick Pack Introduction Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an annual 3-month open-source software development (coding) program that provides a platform for mentors and…
By Heather Turner, Chair of Forwards, the R Foundation taskforce for underrepresented groups in the R Community In this post I will give the background to the Forwards Southern Africa…
By Aurora González-Vidal (president) and Antonio Maurandi (vice-president), Users Murcia R (UMUR) UMUR (Users Murcia R) is an association whose first official act was the organization of the X National Spanish meeting…
Thank you to Carlos Ortega, Principal Data Scientist, Teradata, for providing this summary and pictures from the conference The XI Conference of R Users (XI Jornadas de Usuarios de R),…
Congratulations to our very own Hadley Wickham, Infrastructure Steering Committee Chairperson, for winning the “Nobel Prize of Statistics.” The award is given to a person under the age of 41,…
by Benaiah Ubah R is a fast-growing language for statistical computing and graphics backed by a powerfully inclusive community of users and developers. The R community received a significant boost…
Strengthen the R community with Your Project The R Consortium is committed to supporting the R community by funding projects that create important infrastructure and fortify long term stability for…
By Ben Ubah, Claudia Vitolo and Rick Pack We recently announced an R-Ladies focused open-source dynamic dashboard built using R and Javascript. That work has now been extended to encompass…
The R Consortium is posting new blog guidelines to help facilitate posts from members, ISC grants recipients and the community at large. Please review and send in your ideas! R…
The R Consortium actively supports new projects to help R development both technically and organizationally. Improving R infrastructure and building for long term stability are key goals of the R…
by Ben Ubah, Claudia Vitolo and Rick Pack Introduction One of the most important qualities of the R Language is its thriving community. The R community has a reputation for…
Refactoring and updating the SWIG R moduleRichard BeareThis project is complete. See the project page for a summary. stars: Scalable, spatiotemporal tidy arrays for REdzer PebesmaThe stars package currently averaging…
The R Consortium is committed to the R Community. We support R projects, meetups and events, via grants and sponsorships. Over the last four years, the R Consortium has given…
by Ari Lamstein Ari Lamstein is an independent consultant and organizer of the Census Working Group. The US Census Bureau recently launched Census Academy, an online platform focused on training the…
Since my last post on the Core Infrastructure Initiative CII Best Practices Badge for R Packages – responding to concerns, there have been many R language projects started – and…
For enterprise users of R, licensing terms of open source software can occupy a significant share of Legal and Corporate Architecture departments time. In Should R Consortium Recommend CII Best…
We are excited to announce a wide and diverse group of new R Consortium funded projects. If you are interested in finding out more about these projects, connect with the…
The March 2019 ISC Call for Proposals is now open. Once again, we are looking for ambitious projects that will contribute to the infrastructure of the R ecosystem and benefit…
The R Consortium's 2019 R User Group and Small Conference Support program which provides cash grants to R focused user groups, and small R-themed conferences is now accepting applications for…
In the past few years, we have seen an increase in the demand for R – both from employers looking for skilled R-users and professionals looking to further improve their…
R Consortium announced four months ago the formation of the R Community Diversity and Inclusion Working Group (RCDI-WG), a focal point to address diversity and inclusion issues in the R community. It's…
In an effort to provide greater transparency with respect to R Consortium activities, the ISC provides quarterly updates for all R Consortium funded projects. The following is our update for Q3…
by Joseph Rickert The second and final ISC Call for Proposals for 2018 is now open. We are looking for ambitious projects that will contribute to the infrastructure of the…
Our last post Should R Consortium Recommend CII Best Practices Badge for R Packages: Latest Survey Results summarized results from the CII Best Practices survey conducted this summer. A goal…
In an effort to provide greater transparency with respect to R Consortium activities, the ISC provides quarterly updates for all R Consortium funded projects. The following is our update for Q2…
Based on our Fall 2017 survey, where the R Consortium asked about opportunities, concerns, and issues facing the R community, the R Consortium conducted a new survey this past month…
The first annual R/Medicine conference is being held September 7-8 in New Haven, CT, and is a collaboration between R Consortium and the Yale School of Public Health Biostatistics Department.…
With over 12,000 R packages on CRAN alone, the choice of which package to use for a given task is challenging. While summary descriptions, documentation, download counts and word-of-mouth may…
An explicit goal of the R Consortium is to help create a welcoming space for everyone, no matter their race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, socio-economic status, nationality, citizenship,…
The R Consortium supports the R Community through investments in sustainable infrastructure, community programs and collaborative projects. Through the The Funded Project Program, now in it's fourth year, the R…
R-Hub, which was originally conceived as a useful tool for R package developers to build and test R packages on a variety of platforms, was the first project funded by the R…
In an effort to provide greater transparency with respect to R Consortium activities, the ISC is initiating process to provide quarterly updates for all R Consortium funded projects. The following…
Editor's Note: This post comes from Mark Hornick, who leads the Code Coverage WG and serves on the Board of Directors. In the Fall of 2017, the R Consortium surveyed the…
In 2016, R-Ladies started their effort for a global expansion, with the help from the R-Consortium. Back then there were only 4 active chapters (San Francisco, Taipei, Twin Cities and…
The R Consortium ISC is pleased to announce that the projects listed below were funded under the 2017 edition of the ISC Funded Projects program. This program, which provides financial…
by Joseph Rickert The first ISC Call for Proposals for 2018 is now open. We are looking for ambitious projects that will contribute to the infrastructure of the R ecosystem…
In just one year, the R Consortium through the R User Group Support program sponsored 76 R user groups and 3 small conferences with cash grants totaling just under $30,000.…
The R Consortium was happy to be a sponsor rOpenSci's ozunconf last October in Melbourne. You can read about the "unconference" on rOpenSci's blog and follow some of the projects begun at the event here.…
Per the R Consortium ByLaws and ISC Charter, the Silver Member class is entitled to elect individuals representative of the Silver Member class for a term starting January 1, 2018…
Editor's Note: This post comes from Nicoleta Caragea, uRos2017 conference organizer. uRos2017 is a conference held in November 2017 for collaboration around the use of R in Romania. Through the RUGS program, R…
by Joseph Rickert The ISC has determined that an error in the ISC proposal submission process has caused us to lose some, but not all proposals. If you submitted a…
by Joseph Rickert and Hadley Wickham The second and final ISC Call for Proposals for 2017 is now open. In this round, with the intention of spreading the available funds…
by Joseph Rickert and Hadley Wickham Help us keep the conversation going: Take the R Consortium's Survey. Let us know: What are you thinking? What do you make of the…
by Mark Hornick, Code Coverage Working Group Leader The “Code Coverage Tool for R” project, proposed by Oracle and approved by the R Consortium Infrastructure Steering Committee, started just over…
by Kirill Müller The “Improving DBI” project, funded by the R consortium and started about a year ago includes the definition and implementation of a testable specification for DBI and…
by Hadley Wickham and Joseph Rickert The Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) was very pleased with both the quantity and quality of proposals received during the recent round of funding which…
Join us for a webinar on Jan 31, 2017 at 9:30 AM PST. Hear about R Consortium activities by watching the first ISC Project Status Webinar held on Tuesday, January 31st at 9:30AM PST (5:30PM…
by Edzer Pebesma Support for handling and analyzing spatial data in R goes back a long way. In 2003, a group of package developers sat together and decided to adopt…
by Hadley Wickham The infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) is pleased to announce that the committee is now ready to accept proposals for the first round of funding in 2017. The ISC…
by Kirill Müller In early 2016 the R Consortium partially accepted my "Improving DBI" proposal. An important part is the design and implementation of a testable DBI specification. Initially I…
by Richard Cotton and Thomas Leeper R is gradually taking over the world (of data analysis). However, proficiency in English remains a prerequisite for effectively working with R. While R…
by Gergely Daroczi, organizer Almost 200 people from 19 countries registered for the first satRday conference which was held last Saturday, September 3rd, in Budapest. The final count showed that…
by Joseph Rickert and Hadley Wickham The Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) has approved funding for three of the thirteen proposed projects received during the most recent round of contributed proposals…
The r-hub builder is the first major project of the R consortium. It is an R package build and continuous integration service, open to all members of the R community.…
2016 is already shaping up to be another banner year for the R Project. The project is as active as ever, with the new R 3.2.4 just released (and R…
R-Hub is the first project backed by the Infrastructure Steering Committee; more grant money now available. READ MORE
by Joseph Rickert This week, the Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) of the R Consortium unanimously elected Hadley Wickham as its chair thereby also giving Hadley a seat on the R…
The R Consortium was formed to serve the interests of the R user community, and to that end the members of the R Consortium would like to share some best…
Since the announcement of the R Consortium on June 30, the members of the Consortium have begun the mission of supporting the R project and the vast community of R…