Publications by R Consortium
Chile’s R Ladies Group is Open and Inclusive
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 how the chapter is becoming more inclusive and helpful to others in Santiago, as well as all of Chile and Latin America as a whole. RC: What is the R community like in ...
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Birmingham R talks about the difficulties of socializing in an online space
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 Fiaz about how he is attempting to create those interactions in the online meetups. Adnan is Senior Data Scientist at National Grid in Birmingham, England. He is ...
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Eskisehir R Users Group in Turkey Talks About Pushing Boundaries During the Lockdown
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 pandemic have allowed their group to evolve as a global forum for Turkish R users and hybrid events in the future will help them further increase their reach. ...
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R Consortium Funding Delivers New Format for the R Journal
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. It publishes articles related to R packages (detailing the the broader context, implementation details and examples of use), applications, c...
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R Skopje in North Macedonia Talks About the Challenges of Virtual Events for Smaller Communities
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 North Macedonia and how shifting events online has not been useful for this tightly knit community. However, Novica hopes things will return to normal once they resume events in ...
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Need to Code a Difficult Pharma Stats Table? The R Tables for Regulatory Submissions (RTRS) Working Group Wants to Know
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 for creating tables. The goal is to be able to make it easy for statistical programmers working in pharmaceutical companies to find the right...
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Successful R-based Test Package Submitted to FDA
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 submission package has been received by the FDA staff who were able to reproduce the numerical results. All submission materials can be found at: https://github....
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Oslo UseR! Group’s Diverse and Inclusive Environment Has Fostered a Resilient R Community
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 hindered activities of the group, but they bounced back. The group took the opportunity to collaborate with other R communities and invite high profile international speakers for ...
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Osun R User Group in Nigeria talks about Spreading the Gospel of R across Africa
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 many in-person meetups to virtual sessions largely through WhatsApp. Timothy holds a Master of Science (M.Sc.) and Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. – Hons.) in Statistics with 2nd Class Uppe...
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Calgary R User Group on the Importance of Math Education
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 of videos. He also talks about the importance of making statistics and math more approachable to kids to get them more interested in data science in general. RC: What is...
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