Publications by R Consortium
Announcing R/Medicine 2022!
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 JJ Allaire and Frank Harrell. R / Medicine is the premier conference for the use of R in clinical practice and reflects the increasing importan...
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New Member Pfizer Joins R Consortium
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 Member. “We have been using R for our work at Pfizer for over 10 years, but over the last few years we have seen an increased interest in using R and Shiny for inte...
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Bakersfield Data Analytics and R Users Group: Collaboration and the Need to Reach Out to Students
R Consortium talked to Zhenning (Jimmy) Xu of the Bakersfield Data Analytics and R Users Group about the challenges of engaging members of a small and budding R community. Zhenning emphasized the significance of collaborations and co-hosting events for smaller R communities. He also shared his vision of attracting more students to the R community...
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R-Ladies Cotonou Talks About Running an R users Group in Benin, West Africa
A lot of what we use in the day to day life in the developed world may not always be available to those in the developing world. R Consortium talks to Nadejda Sero about running an R-Ladies group in Benin, West Africa, that is both dominated by men as well as lacks basic infrastructure such as reliable internet to hold online meetings. What is t...
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A-State R User Group Hope to Make a Comeback with Physical Events This Summer
R consortium talked to Emily Bellis and Asela Wijeratne, organizers of the A-State R User Group, about their campus R user group. They discussed the struggle of managing a new user group during the pandemic. They also stressed the need for a centralized R Certification program for R proficiency. Emily Bellis is an Assistant Professor of bioinfor...
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North East Data Scientists Group Works As a Professional Group
R Consortium talks to Colin Gillespie (from Jumping Rivers) about how a relatively small area deals with increasing membership, what companies are doing to make their data science teams more efficient, and how we might want to look at how governments might view data science. What is the R community like in Newcastle upon Tyne? CG: Newcastle upon...
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New R Community in Botswana Wants to Implement Data Into Local Businesses
Many of the local businesses in Africa have no idea of what data can be used for or how it can be used to help their business. R Consortium talks to Edson Kambeu about the idea of partnering with local businesses to implement R and Data Science in their business. He also talks about the inroads that have to be made in teaching users and the outre...
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Francophone SatRday Conference Coming Soon – Save the Date!
The next Francophone SatRday Conference will be Saturday, August 6, at 9 am UTC, and will cover Using R for Data Science and Epidemiology. Join experts Cheikh Fall, Ehouman Evans, Marie Ruth DAGO (Intro to R), and Aminata Ndiaye (R in Epidemiology) to better understand how to use applications using the R Language for data science, epidemiology, a...
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R Lille Group Organizer, Mickaël Canouil, Talks About Guiding New Users
R Consortium talks to Mickaël Canouil about the idea of reproducible teaching tools, cross-platform support, and the use of package building in his community. Mickaël says one of the most important things we can do to ensure that a language stays relevant is to ensure that we have new people using the language. What is the R community like in ...
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Virtual Events Opened New Horizons for R-Ladies Dallas
R-Consortium talked to Dr. Sydeaka Watson of the Dallas, Texas chapter of R-Ladies Global about turning the challenges of the pandemic into opportunities for the group. She shared the initial struggle of finding an appropriate platform for the online events. R-Ladies Dallas overcame this temporary setback and hosted virtual events with both an in...
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