🚨 Big news for the R Community!
The Sovereign Tech Fund has invested $450,000 in the R Foundation to strengthen R’s sustainability, security, and modernization.
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🚀 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:
https://r-consortium.org/all-projects/callforproposals.html
R/Medicine 2026 covers R being used across the full health data workflow - from clinical data entry and REDCap pipelines to reproducible reporting, large-scale analysis, and AI-assisted tools.
Register today! https://rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_website/Program.html
Latest from the new R Consortium nlmixr2 Working Group:
nlmixr2—an R-based, open-source nonlinear mixed-effects modeling package that can compete with commercial pharmacometrics tools and support regulatory submissions—now supports inter-occasion variability (IOV).
Read the full details in their newest blog post:
https://r-consortium.org/posts/from-nlmixr2-working-group-nlmixr2-inter-occasion-variability
This coming week! R/Consortium 2026! May 5-8, 100% virtual
Two days of in-depth, hands-on demos and workshops, then two days of Keynotes, Talks, Lightning Talks and plenty of time built in for your questions - Connect directly with speakers and peers
Don't miss it!
https://rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_website/Program.html
R Consortium technical grants deadline coming up May 1
The R Consortium funds projects that strengthen the R ecosystem’s technical and social infrastructure. Help build the R community!
Full details here: https://r-consortium.org/all-projects/callforproposals.html
List of previous projects: https://r-consortium.org/all-projects/funded-projects.html
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.
#rstats #opensource #datascience #Malaysia #Shiny #tidyverse #community #analytics
Risk 2026 is coming up in two weeks! Full schedule available!
Register now!
R is used to calculate, measure, report, or mitigate risk. Find out the latest techniques, ask your questions directly to speakers, connect with other R users. Reproducibility, AI, Security, risk visuals...
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.
Jarl is an R Consortium–funded project: a blazing-fast linter for R that can scan large codebases, flag issues, and even auto-fix many of them in one go.
Built on `{lintr}` and the Air formatter (Rust), Jarl ships as a single binary—perfect for CI, pre-commit hooks, and editor integration (VS Code, Positron, Zed).
Learn more and try it: https://r-consortium.org/posts/jarl-just-another-r-linter
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, Lecturer at Univ of British Columbia
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
Do you know about R Dev Days?
R Dev Days are short events for novice and experienced contributors to work collaboratively on contributions to base R, the core functionality, packages, and functions included with the default installation of the R programming language.
These events have the support of the R Core Team and some have R Core developers participating directly.
Organizers of the R User Group of Nueva Vizcaya State University (RNVSU) recently spoke with the R Consortium about building a provincial, university-based R community in the Philippines.
Find out all the details!
https://r-consortium.org/posts/igniting-an-r-movement-in-the-philippines-rnvsus-open-science-vision/
We are proud to announce our newest top level project, R-Universe!
R-universe is a platform for improving publication and discovery of research software in R, developed by @rOpenSci@hachyderm.io - Come find out more!
https://r-consortium.org/posts/r-universe-named-r-consortiums-newest-top-level-project/
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
Risk 2026 is coming next week!
Our fully online, low-cost Risk 2026 conference is dedicated to the open-source R community and risk analytics. Incredible array of R experts, ask all your questions!
Full details here: https://rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website
Coming up in two weeks! Risk 2026!
Michael Thomas
Chief Data Scientist, Ketchbrook Analytics, will present on "Fully Reproducible Model Validation Reports Using Docker, R, Quarto, {renv} and {targets}"
Register now! https://rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website/Abstracts.html#michael-thomas
R/Medicine 2026 is approaching, with keynotes on software sustainability, accountable algorithm design, and rigorous evaluation of generative AI.
Join keynote talks from Yanina Bellini Saibene, David Robinson, and Peter Gruber.
Register now: https://rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_website/
Contribute your knowledge and your voice!
The R/Medicine 2026 Call for Proposals closes tomorrow, March 13.
Submit your talk, lightning talk, demo, or workshop!
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
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/
Risk 2026 is this week, there's still plenty of time to register!
Full program here:
The R Consortium Submissions Working Group is making “all-R” regulatory submissions more practical through real pilots and regulator feedback.
If you work in clinical trials / submissions / validation and want to help, get involved: https://r-consortium.org/posts/submissions-wg-2026
#rstats #clinicaltrials #regulatoryscience #pharma #opensource
R and Security!
From the Risk 2026 talk “A Bayesian R Framework for Quantifying Cyber Risk Using the FAIR Model and MITRE ATT&CK”:
A fully open, R-based quantitative cyber-risk model combining FAIR + MITRE ATT&CK. Uses {cmdstanr}, Bayesian inference, and Monte Carlo to estimate ALE, incident frequency, and loss exceedance curves—transparent + reproducible.
Abstract: https://rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website/Abstracts.html#joshua-connors
Register for Risk 2026!
R Consortium-funded tooling for TDA in R: statistical inference for persistence diagrams
Persistence diagrams are great summaries of “shape in data” (persistent homology) — but many workflows stop at plotting. The {inphr} package goes further: statistical inference for samples of persistence diagrams, aimed at comparing populations of diagrams across data types.
Read: https://r-consortium.org/posts/statistical-inference-for-persistence-diagrams/
#rstats #TDA #TopologicalDataAnalysis #PersistentHomology #Statistics #DataScience #OpenSource
TOMORROW! R+AI 2025 goes live!
Highlights:
• Joe Cheng (Posit): Keeping LLMs in Their Lane
• Oracle ML: RAG from your DB (Hornick & LaMonica)
• Troy Hernandez: Stable Diffusion in R
• Many, many more!
Nov 12–13. See the full program and register: https://rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_website/program.html
🔍 The #RConsortium's ISC is back for the second cycle of 2024! Got a project that strengthens the R ecosystem? Apply for funding now! 📝
📅 Applications close on Oct 1, 2024. Don’t miss out! Submit your proposal today. More details: https://www.r-consortium.org/all-projects/call-for-proposals
🚨 R developers, apply now!
The R Consortium ISC has opened its 2025 Cycle 2 grant window!
💡 Got an idea that helps the R community? Package it, submit it, and get funded.
🗓 Deadline: Oct 1, 2025
📍 Apply: https://r-consortium.org/all-projects/callforproposals.html
Make your mark on #rstats 🚀
Virtual R/Medicine data challenge - Deadline May 20, 2025
$200 prize for Students or Professionals each. You can submit as an individual or a team!
Analyze MMR vaccination rates over time and by geographical area, as well as measles case rates and complications.
Examples, guidelines, and more available at:
https://rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_website/Competition.html
R Consortium webinar: Scale up data analysis in R with Arrow—fast, memory-efficient analytics without a DB or cluster.
With Dr Nic Crane (Arrow R maintainer, Apache Arrow PMC).
Register: https://r-consortium.org/webinars/scaling-up-data-analysis-in-r-with-arrow.html
#rstats #apachearrow
Risk 2026 · Full schedule available!
R is used to calculate, measure, report, or mitigate risk. Find out the latest techniques, ask your questions directly to speakers, connect with other R users.
Reproducible validation, Agentic R workflows, Security, risk visuals (ggplot design), outbreak-time geospatial risk modelling, much more...
Check out the full schedule and register now! https://rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website/program.html
📢 WEBINAR NEXT WEEK: Topological Data Analysis in R
Learn how topological data analysis (TDA) techniques are being integrated into everyday R workflows—more accessible for researchers and analysts beyond the specialists.
👉 Details & registration: https://r-consortium.org/webinars/modular-interoperable-extensible-topological-data-analysis-in-r.html
Open source succeeds 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/