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2026-04-07 13:48:52 UTC

Open source in R - don’t know where to start? Start TOMORROW!
Join the R Consortium webinar tomorrow, Wed, April 8: “Make your first R open source project contribution with git, forks, and PRs”
👉 Register here: https://r-consortium.org/webinars/make-your-first-r-open-source-project-contribution.html
Build real experience. Collaborate globally. Contribute to R.
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2026-04-03 20:49:05 UTC

🚀 The R Consortium Technical Grant Cycle is now open!
Have an idea to improve R’s technical infrastructure? Apply for funding!
We support projects with broad impact across the global R community—tools, infrastructure, and community initiatives.
📅 Apply by May 1
📅 Decisions by June 1
Get details + apply:
R Consortium grant guidelines
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2026-03-27 23:20:18 UTC

If you’ve thought about contributing to open source in R but didn’t know where to start, this is your entry point.
“Make your first R open source project contribution with git, forks, and PRs”
with Daniel Chen (Posit)
Practical walkthrough using real workflows from the R ecosystem.
Part of the lead-up to R/Medicine 2026.
👉 Register here: https://r-consortium.org/webinars/make-your-first-r-open-source-project-contribution.html
#rstats #opensource #rprogramming #datascience
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2026-03-19 21:41:13 UTC

Open source when there is sustained investment, coordination, and leadership.
Terri Christiani, Executive Director of the R Consortium, outlines why the momentum in the R ecosystem right now is structural, not incremental.
• Coordinated progress across working groups tackling production-level challenges
• Conferences like R/Medicine, R+AI, and Risk translating expertise into real-world impact
• Ongoing industry investment
https://r-consortium.org/posts/community-growth-collaboration-momentum-across-r-ecosystem/
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2026-03-04 23:57:53 UTC

R/Medicine Call for Proposals has been extended by one week!
New deadline: March 13
Submit a Talk, Lightning Talk, Demo, or Workshop and share your work with the R community using R and Shiny for health, laboratory, and clinical data.
First-time speakers are strongly encouraged. R/Medicine is designed to be welcoming for presenters at all levels, from beginner to expert. For feedback: rmedicine.conference@gmail.com
Submit here: https://rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_website/Submit.html
#rstats #opensource #healthcare
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2026-03-02 18:33:33 UTC

Jeremy Horne, organizer of the Birmingham (UK) R User Group, recently spoke with the R Consortium about rebuilding Birmingham’s R community as an inclusive space for learning and collaboration
https://r-consortium.org/posts/jeremy-horne-on-building-inclusive-r-communities-across-the-uk/
#rstats #opensource #community
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2026-02-24 20:32:35 UTC

R/Medicine CFP is open 🩺🧪
Deadline: March 6 (still time!)
Submit: Talks • Lightning Talks • Demos • Workshops — share how you use R + Shiny for health, lab, and clinical data.
First-time speaker? Not sure about your abstract? Email for feedback: rmedicine.conference@gmail.com
https://rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_website/Submit.html
#rstats #healthcare #pharma #clinicaldata #datascience
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2026-02-09 22:23:56 UTC

Malaysia’s R community is growing! 🇲🇾
In this new R Consortium interview, Richie Yu Yong Poh shares how the Malaysia R User Group grew from a small network into a platform that actively connects students, researchers, and industry practitioners—through seminars, hands-on workshops, and a flagship two-day annual conference.
https://r-consortium.org/posts/bringing-students-researchers-and-industry-together-with-r-in-malaysia
#rstats #opensource #datascience #Malaysia #Shiny #tidyverse #community #analytics
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2025-06-23 14:17:14 UTC

TOMORROW! Scaling the r-spatial ecosystem for the modern composable data pipeline - with Dewey Dunnington, Senior Software Engineer at Wherobots
Tues, June 24, 1pm ET
Sign up now! https://r-consortium.org/webinars/scaling-the-r-spatial-ecosystem-for-the-modern-composable-data-pipeline.html
#RStats #rspatial #OpenSource
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2025-06-17 17:09:14 UTC

From Paper to Pixels: Digitizing Water Quality Data Collection with Posit and Esri Integration
Webinar: June 27, 10am PT / 1pm ET
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) administers laws and regulations associated with air quality, water quality and more in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
In this webinar, we will focus on the integration of our Posit and Esri environments to modernize data collection methods for water quality monitoring.
https://r-consortium.org/webinars/from-paper-to-pixels-digitizing-water-quality-data-collection-with-posit-and-esri-integration.html
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2025-04-24 15:25:57 UTC

Huge thanks to Genentech for sponsoring R/Medicine 2025!
Your support is helping build a world-class forum for sharing R based tools and approaches used to analyze and gain insights from health data!
https://rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_website/
#rstats #opensource #RMed25
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2025-04-04 22:09:12 UTC

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2025-04-04 19:57:28 UTC

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@nprofile…h9kv All times are in ET and while the schedule is not published yet, R/Medicine in the past has typically gone from about 11am-5pm ET.

2025-04-04 03:16:05 UTC

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@nprofile…h9kv The Call For Proposals ends on Friday, April 11th at 11:59 PM EDT - Or were you asking about the main schedule?

2025-04-03 22:43:35 UTC

Call for Proposals for R/Medicine 2025 closes April 11, 2025!
First time submitting? Don’t feel intimidated! The content of the presentation should be of interest to the R/Medicine community.
Lightning talks (10 min), Regular talks (20 min), Demos (1 hour) and Workshops (2-3 hours on a topic)
Apply now!
https://rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_website/Abstracts.html
#rstats #opensource #RMed25
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2025-04-02 16:06:25 UTC

Get a "gentle introduction" to R and data science for healthcare professionals and clinical researchers!
Stephan Kadauke, Assistant Director of the Cell and Gene Therapy Laboratory, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, will be giving a workshop on "Introduction to R for Clinical Data"
Don't miss it, register now!
https://rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_website/Register.html
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2025-03-20 23:57:04 UTC

**geometa** provides an essential object-oriented data model in R, enabling users to efficiently manage geographic metadata.
The package facilitates handling of ISO and OGC standard geographic metadata and their dissemination on the web.
In this interview, we speak with **Emmanuel Blondel**, the author of geometa, ows4R, geosapi, geonapi and geoflow—key R packages for geospatial data management.
https://r-consortium.org/posts/exploring-geometa-an-r-package-for-managing-geographic-metadata/
#rstats #rsoftware #rstatistics #rspatial #OGC #FOSS4G
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2025-03-14 16:07:16 UTC

Looking forward to seeing you at useR! 2025 this year!
This year, useR! 2025 will be held at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, on August 8-10, 2025.
Registration is now open!
https://r-consortium.org/posts/looking-forward-to-seeing-you-at-useR2025-this-year/
#rstats #opensource
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2025-02-28 18:33:48 UTC

The R Consortium Submission Working Group is demonstrating R’s capabilities to deliver a high-quality drug submission!
A new Pilot 5 aims to deliver an R-based Submission to the FDA using Dataset-JSON. Find out more, plus plans for 2025/2026, some news on Pilot 4 (containers and webassembly) and more!
https://r-consortium.org/posts/submissions-wg-pilot5-pilot6-and-more/
#rstats #opensource
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2025-02-19 15:20:01 UTC

Join our upcoming community meeting about Shiny app validation in Regulatory Submissions!
Curious about others’ opinions and ideas on risk assessment and validation related to Shiny apps? Ever thought about how others may classify a Shiny app as “validated?” Even beyond regulatory submissions, when do we consider “validation” of Shiny apps worthwhile for their day-to-day use?
February 25th, 2025 @ 9AM PT/12PM ET
https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/95618016272?password=3bf1a383-23d3-48fc-b079-b0700c3ed9b0
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2025-02-18 22:53:41 UTC

useR! 2025 Call for Submissions is currently OPEN!
Deadline is March 3! In other words, you have two weeks, the perfect amount of time to prep and submit your topic.
Contribute to the community! Expert or newbie, please participate.
Tutorials, Talks, Lightning Talk and Posters are all options! For details and a complete list of Topics of Interest and also R-Ladies Abstract Review information, see:
https://user2025.r-project.org/call
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2025-02-13 17:51:07 UTC

Seville R Users Group: R’s Role in Optimization Research and Stroke Prevention
Alberto Torrejon Valenzuela, organizer of the Seville R Users Group, talks about dynamic growth of the R community in Seville, Spain, hosting the Third Spanish R Conference, and his research in optimization and a collaborative project analyzing stroke prevention, showcasing how R drives innovation in scientific research and community development.
https://r-consortium.org/posts/seville-r-users-group-rs-role-in-optimization-research-and-stroke-prevention/
#RStats #OpenSource
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2025-02-06 20:47:00 UTC

Find out how Nebraska R User Group, learning and promoting R in a not very populous US state, has made their initiative state-wide rather than city-specific, and is fostering connections between academics, industry professionals, and nonprofits.
https://r-consortium.org/posts/connecting-nebraska-through-r-jeffrey-stevens-journey-of-community-building/
#rstats #opensource
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