Publications by R Consortium
Community of Bioinformatics Software Developers (CDSB): The story of a diversity and outreach hotspot in Mexico that hopes to empower local R developers
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 been attending R conferences since 2008, and while I’ve seen the R community grow rapidly, I genera...
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R Consortium Member Esri Empowers Informed Decision-Making Around COVID-19
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 coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Esri COVID-19 Overview From Esri: “As the situation surrounding coronavirus disease 2019...
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Hosting a Virtual useR Meetup
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 anyone that was interested in joining. While I wasn’t sure what to expect at first, I was so happy with the turnout and reminded again of just how great the R commun...
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Helping R Community Events Go Virtual
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 $1 million dollars to developers (and it’s a good time to prep for the next Fall Grant Cycle), we give funding to events and meetups through out R User Group (RUGs) pro...
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Stanford Data Science Institute Joins R Consortium in Sponsoring COVID-19 Data Forum – Join Us!
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 to build the COVID-19 Data Forum series. The first meeting is May 14, 12:00 pm PT, California time. The COVID-19 Data Forum series is an ongoing set of on...
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COVID-19 Data Forum – Co-Sponsored with Stanford Data Science Institute – Heavily Attended
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 remote specialists, present information, and conduct a Q&A session so that participants could ask questions and give opinions. Close to 200 people attended, watching a range of exp...
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From R Epidemics Consortium – RECON COVID-19 challenge – Two Paid Consultant Positions Available
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 develop the RECON COVID-19 challenge, a project aiming to centralise, organise and manage needs for analytics resources in R to support the response to...
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From R Hub – Counting and Visualizing CRAN Downloads with packageRank (with Caveats!)
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 so via two functions. The first, cranDownloads(), extends cranlogs::cran_downloads() by adding a plot() method and a more user-friendly interface. The second,�...
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R Communities in South Africa
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 for Building the R Community in Southern Africa. In February, they successfully raised £2,700 with 44 supporters in 28 days. Fantastic! We wan...
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Latin American Communities and Organizations: useR!2020 Video
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, we filmed a video for useR!2020 showcasing the communities and organizations we are involved in that are for Latin Americans or have Lat...
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