R Consortium: 2025 in Review—growth, community, and a ton of momentum! Highlights: R/Medicine 2025, useR!, R+AI; Submissions WG + expanded FDA eCTD support for R packages; 13 infra projects funded; YouTube +1,472; LinkedIn +1,769. r-consortium.org/posts/2025-i... #rstats

Fantastic! $650k awarded via the Research Software Maintenance Fund for “Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R”—mentoring new contributors, modernizing R’s dev infrastructure, and strengthening the R Foundation. r-consortium.org/posts/650K-f... #rstats

An #RStats blog entry by Heather Turner explains the new Research Software Maintenance Fund grant. blog.r-project.org/2025/12/17/r...

These are the kinds of stories that I just love from the @rconsortium.bsky.social. Helping people analyze and communicate results from complex datasets? YAY! Help support the stewardship of public lands with data driven decision making? Hell YEAH! #rstats

Nepal gov forestry staff completed a 7-day R training (wrangling, dataviz, stats, basic mapping) led EnviroDataR Group Nepal—with measurable gains from pre/post tests. r-consortium.org/posts/empowe... #rstats #nepal #opensource #forestry

Gergely Daróczi on reviving Budapest Users of R Network (BURN) + using R with Strava data for daily insights—his personal diabetes story. r-consortium.org/posts/revivi... #rstats #opensource #strava #rprogramming

There's still time! CFP deadline is Dec 14! R!sk 2026 welcomes talks about risk in all areas where it’s an impactful element in your work—from healthcare and climate to cybersecurity, supply chain, and beyond. rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website... #rstats #opensource

Lead by Heather Turner and based at the University of Birmingham, team and partners include Gabriel Becker, Kylie Bemis, Mikael Jagan, @jeroenooms.bsky.social, the R Core Team, @rconsortium.bsky.social, @r-foundation.bsky.social, @posit.co, Google, A2-Ai.

China PharmaRUG’s 2025 highlights: R for modern, regulated clinical reporting—hybrid events, APAC talks, plus momentum on validation + AI governance. Read: r-consortium.org/posts/bridgi... #rstats #pharma

So excited about this win for the R Foundation and R Core team. The @rconsortium.bsky.social gets to play a small role in supporting these efforts. 2026 is already shaping up to be another amazing year for #rstats. Congratulations!

R Consortium applauds the R Foundation & R Core on receiving a major new investment in R’s future. More than $650K (£499,981.21) over 24 months for “Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R,” modernizing infra, governance & mentoring new contributors! www.software.ac.uk/rsmf-round-1...

R-Ladies Zurich is growing an inclusive R community in the middle of a shifting tech and startup landscape. Luisa Barbanti, organizer of R-Ladies Zurich, shares how they’re nurturing new leaders, keeping events relevant for new and long-time R users. r-consortium.org/posts/growin... #rstats

This is at the core of our mission: providing a neutral space for industry, academia, and government to collaborate in addressing issues that impact the whole community and provide improvements and/or enhanced experiences for the community. #rstats

A milestone for #rstats: FDA expands accepted eCTD file formats for R packages, based on joint work between industry, FDA, and the R Consortium Submissions WG. Details: r-consortium.org/posts/expand... #fda #regulatory #clinicaltrials

4/4 🙏 Agradecimiento especial a @rconsortium.bsky.social, @ropensci.org y RSE Chile por su apoyo Y un enorme reconocimiento al comité organizador, al comité científico, a tutores y a toda la comunidad que hizo posible esta edición. Gracias por ser parte de #LatinR2025. ¡Nos reencontramos en 2026!

The R Consortium is excited to announce James “JD” Long as keynote speaker for R!sk 2026, our new online event on using R for risk. Join us Feb 18–19, 2026! It's not just for insurance—if you use R in climate, healthcare, lots more... Details: r-consortium.org/posts/r-cons... #rstats #risk

Karachi R User Group is building an R ecosystem from scratch—driven by energy, commitment, and volunteer effort, with support from the R Consortium RUGS program. Read the full story: r-consortium.org/posts/a-firs... #rstats

Stressing, for those in our far flung corner of the world, that this is an online event where you prerecord your talk.

Add your voice to the R community! R!sk 2026 Call for Proposals is open through Dec 7, 2025. Share how you use R to calculate, measure, and mitigate risk across finance, insurance, climate, healthcare & more. Submit now: rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website/ #rstats #riskmanagement

Connecting pharma professionals, master’s students, and R users in one local community! Ronak Shah and the Pune R User Group are using campus-based and hybrid meetups supporting India’s fast-growing pharma + R ecosystem. r-consortium.org/posts/connec... #rstats #opensource #pharma

R!sk 2026 CFP is open! 📣 Two weekends left to submit your R talk on risk (finance, insurance, ops, climate, healthcare, more). Deadline Dec 7, 2025 ➜ rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website... #Risk2026 #rstats #datascience #riskmanagement

nlmixr2 is becoming an R Consortium Working Group! Open-source NLME modeling in R that can compete with commercial pharmacometric tools and support regulatory submissions. More: r-consortium.org/posts/nlmixr... #RStats #pharma

New R Consortium interview with Dr Paolo Bosetti on R-Trento (R-TUG): from the adas.utils package to an R community across academia, industry & public sector. r-consortium.org/posts/from-t... #rstats #RConsortium

R is thriving in Cleveland! We spoke with Alec Wong from the Cleveland R Users Group about career planning, hiring in an AI world, and building bridges with local Python and open data communities. Read more: r-consortium.org/posts/expand... #rstats #opensource

📢 R Dev Day @ New Zealand 2025 🏢 Auckland University 🌐 Remote, Americas / Asia-Pacific 📅 Tue 16 - Wed 17 Dec Registration deadline: Sunday 7 Dec pretix.eu/r-contributo... Attend this free event to collaborate on contributions to #RStats. #RDevDay #RSEng

R!sk 2026 is coming. Online event from R Consortium, Feb 18–19, 2026, for anyone using #rstats to model and manage risk. CFP open now: talks, lightning talks, panels, tutorials due Dec 7, 2025. Details + submission: rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website... #risk #datascience

Jarl is an R Consortium–funded project: a blazing-fast linter for R 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). r-consortium.org/posts/jarl-j... #rstats #RConsortium #opensource

This coming week! From the R Consortium HTA WG: “Making Health Economic Models Shiny” – moving models from Excel to R & Shiny with Dr Robert Smith & Dr Wael Mohammed (Dark Peak Analytics). Details: r-consortium.org/webinars/mak... #rstats #shiny

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: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs... #rstats #AI

Webinar: Making Health Economic Models Shiny — Excel → R & Shiny Tue Nov 18 · 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm GMT Practical migration tips for HTA teams Speakers: Dr Robert Smith, Dr Wael Mohammed (Dark Peak Analytics) Register: r-consortium.org/webinars/mak... #rstats #Shiny #HTA #healthcare

**Just 2 in-person tickets left at this event, a wait list is available!** 📢 R Dev Day @ Australia 🏢 Monash University, Melbourne 🌐 Remote, Australia 📅 Fri 21 Nov Registration deadline: Sun 16 Nov https://pretix.eu/r-contributors/r-dev-day-oz-25/ Attend this free event to collaborate on […]

📢 R Dev Day @ New Zealand 2025 🏢 Auckland University 🌐 Remote, Americas / Asia-Pacific 📅 Tue 16 - Wed 17 Dec (NZST) Registration deadline: Sunday 7 Dec https://pretix.eu/r-contributors/r-dev-day-nz-25/ Attend this free event to collaborate on contributions to #rstats. #rdevday #rseng

At R+AI next week: RAG on your database → query R Consortium blogs. Sherry LaMonica & Mark Hornick (Oracle ML) demo an R workflow in RStudio with Oracle Autonomous Database, vector index + LLM switching. Details + register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs... #rstats #RAG #AI #opensource #Oracle

Next week at R+AI 2025: a 2-hour hands-on workshop for R users new to genAI. Learn prompting patterns, context, tool calls, agentic flows, tokens/context, safety, and lightweight testing/QC. Leave with runnable R scripts. Details: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs... #rstats #AI

R-Ladies Buenos Aires + R en Buenos Aires ran a community reading club on Hadley Wickham’s book Mastering Shiny (he’s on the R Consortium board). Peer-led sessions turned solo intent into shared progress. Details: r-consortium.org/posts/learni... #rstats #Shiny #RCommunity @weare.rladies.org

Full schedule is live: R+AI 2025 · Nov 12–13 · online Sample session: “Tools for LLMs and Humans who use R” — Garrick Aden-Buie (Posit) How the {btw} package feeds computational context to LLMs for smoother R+AI workflows. Register! rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs... #rstats #AI @posit.co

Great post! Yes, @jasminedaly.bsky.social, very excited to hear your talk on Nov 12! Want to hear you dig in to your (own) question: "How do you use AI as a force multiplier that makes you a better R developer, not a dependent one?" 🤔 Jasmine's abstract here: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...

Really looking forward to your talk on "kuzco | Computer Vision made easy" on Nov 13, 2025! Super cool topic, super cool project! 😎 For everyone: the full program here, sign up now! rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...

Skip the hype. Deep dive on R + AI 🧠 R+AI 2025 · Nov 12–13 · online · low cost 💻 Keynote: Joe Cheng (CTO, Posit) — “Keeping LLMs in Their Lane” 🎯 Register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs... #rstats #AI #LLMs #Quarto #RConsortium

TOMORROW! 📢 R Consortium webinar: J&J’s Hybrid SAS/R FDA Submission: What Worked and Why Most pharma teams live in a mixed world of SAS and R. Go inside a successful hybrid SAS/R FDA submission and see exactly how the team made it work! r-consortium.org/webinars/jnj... #rstats #pharma #sas

Johnson & Johnson shares how they used #R for a successful FDA submission—3 J&J researchers on open-source packages for stats and TFLs Free reg: r-consortium.org/webinars/jnj... Part of the R Submissions WG advancing R-based regulatory submissions #rstats #ClinicalTrials #Pharma #OpenSource

TOMORROW! R/Medicine webinar: How to use pointblank to understand, validate, and document your data Speaker Richard Iannone, Software Engineer, Posit, PBC r-consortium.org/webinars/how... #rstats #opensource @posit.co

Coming up next month, register now! R+AI 2025 - Nov 12-13 Keynote: Joe Cheng, CTO @ Posit Talk: “Keeping LLMs in Their Lane: Focused AI for Data Science and Research” Register now! rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs... #rstats #AI #DataScience @posit.co @jcheng5.bsky.social

R+AI 2025 • Nov 12–13 • Online • Low-cost Skip the hype. See how R + AI works in production! Keynote: Joe Cheng (Posit) on focused, reliable LLMs for data science Actionable R+AI sessions. Students from $25. Register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs... #rstats @posit.co @jcheng5.bsky.social

📢 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 users beyond the specialists. 👉 Details & registration: r-consortium.org/webinars/mod... #rstats #opensource

🚨 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. Details: r-consortium.org/posts/sovere... #rstats #opensource #datascience

THERE'S STILL TIME! R Consortium Technical Grants - Applications close Oct 1, 2025 Apply Now! Let's build the R community together! Details on applying: r-consortium.org/all-projects... #RStats #OpenSource

WEBINAR NEXT WEEK! Topological Data Analysis in R Register now! Integrating popular techniques from topological data analysis (TDA) into common statistical workflows in R. For non-specialist researchers and analysts! Full details here: r-consortium.org/webinars/mod... #rstats #opensource

🚀 NEXT WEEK! Apply for an R Consortium Technical Grant by Oct 1, 2025. Grants fund projects that strengthen the #rstats ecosystem. Example: volcalc — streamlining chemical volatility research - r-consortium.org/posts/unlock... Details + apply: r-consortium.org/all-projects... #opensource

New R Consortium webinar, sign up now! Modular, Interoperable, Extensible Topological Data Analysis in R. Covers integrating popular techniques from topological data analysis (TDA) into common statistical workflows in R. Full details here: r-consortium.org/webinars/mod... #rstats #opensource