Publications by R Consortium
Get Funded by the R Consortium – Call for Proposals Open Now!
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 the R Community. The R Consortium’s Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) has developed a grant program that looks to help the broader R community...
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Data-Driven Tracking and Discovery of R Consortium Activities
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 when some enterprises came together to establish the R Consortium in 2015. Since then, the R Consortium has clearly proven its purpose by operating tra...
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R Consortium Infrastructure Steering Committee Chair Wins 2019 COPSS Presidents’ Award
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, in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics. According to Wikipedia, the COPSS Presidents’ Award, along with the Inter...
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XI Conference of R Users (Madrid, Spain, Nov 14-16) Welcomes Over 200 Attendees
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), held November 14 – 16, Madrid, Spain, was organized by the Asociación Comunidad R Hispano. The ambitious program and the invited international speakers made the...
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Uniting Local R Users in Spain – Users Murcia R (UMUR)
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 of R users in Murcia (2018) which established an inflection point in this annual meeting. We brought two amazing speakers: Fra...
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R Consortium Simplifies Membership Structure to Increase Opportunities for Silver Level Members
Two membership levels now available: Platinum and Silver SAN FRANCISCO, January 29, 2020 – The R Consortium, a Linux Foundation project supporting the R Foundation and R community, today announced a shift in its membership structure, allowing increased opportunities for Silver Level members. The new approach simplifies the membership structure ...
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Building the R Community in Southern Africa
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 2020 project, for which we are running a crowd-funding campaign until February 5, 2020. On March 6-7, 2020, Johannesburg will host the fourth satRday to be held...
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R Community Explorer – Google Summer of Code Projects
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 students (mentees) to collaborate on open source projects. This article highlights our accomplishments in the final coding phase of the 2019 GSoC pr...
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R Consortium Welcomes New Member ThinkR, R Language and Data Science Engineering Company
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 Consortium, a Linux Foundation project supporting the R Foundation and R community, today announced that ThinkR has joined the R Consortium as a S...
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March 2020 ISC call for proposals – Now Open!
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 large sections of the R community. Our goal is to stimulate creativity and help you turn good ideas into tangible benefits. It is very likely that everyone who reads thi...
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