R Consortium Executive Director Terry Christiani explains why open source packages, documentation, standards, and public examples strengthen the foundation AI tools depend on. r-consortium.org/posts/open-s... #RStats #OpenSource #AI @terrychristiani.bsky.social

📢 The call for submissions for LatinR 2026 has been extended! There’s still time to share your projects, experiences, and work with the R community in Latin America 💜 🗓️ New deadline: June 1 🔗 latinr.org 💬 Official languages: Spanish, Portuguese, English 📍Medellín, Colombia #rstats

The R Consortium R Submissions WG is helping move R-based regulatory submissions from concept to implementation. Pilot 4 explored WebAssembly and Docker for running an R Shiny app in regulatory review. FDA feedback showed practical next steps. r-consortium.org/posts/beyond... #rstats #shiny

R Consortium working groups are a great on-ramp into the R community. New from nlmixr2: reflections on an invited seminar with FDA quantitative clinical pharmacology reviewers, focused on open source tools, reproducibility, and regulatory readiness. blog.nlmixr2.org/blog/2026-04... #rstats

R/Medicine 2026 starts with 2 days of in-depth demos and workshops TOMORROW! There's still time to register! Full program here: rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #clinicaltrials #healthdata #healthcare

This week! R/Consortium 2026! May 5-8, 100% virtual 2 days of in-depth, hands-on demos and workshops, then 2 days of Keynotes, Talks, Lightning Talks - Ask questions, connect directly with speakers and peers rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #clinicaltrials #opensource #healthcare

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: r-consortium.org/all-projects... List of previous projects: r-consortium.org/all-projects...

"Introduction to R for Clinical Data" Led by Richard Hanna, Data Science Supervisor with the Cell and Gene Therapy Informatics Team at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia At R/Medicine 2026, May 5-8! Register today! rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #clinicaltrials

R/Medicine 2026 is next week! Register now! Just one of the great lineup of workshops and demos: "You Should Probably Map That: Introduction to Geospatial Analysis in R" Anjile An, Weill Cornell Medical College rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #clinicaltrials #geospatial

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! rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #clinicaltrials #healthdata #datascience

R/Medicine Hackathon is tomorrow! Focusing on the {teal} package, a framework for building interactive exploratory data analysis applications in clinical trials. Beginners welcome, registration for R/Medicine required. Sign up, prep, and all the deets here: rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we...

Wonderful opportunity to engage with the community and pick up some new skills with colleagues!

Next week! A Pharmaverse hackathon ahead of R/Medicine 2026 Work on {teal}, a framework for interactive exploratory data analysis apps for clinical trials. Beginners welcome. R/Medicine 2026 registration required. Hackathon: rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we...

The R ecosystem grows through community. In 2026, R Consortium is supporting major R-related events around the world to help expand participation and create more opportunities to learn, connect, and contribute to R. Read more: r-consortium.org/posts/invest... #rstats #opensource

I know I'm biased, but it's so nice to see these two awesome #RStats communities working together. Kudos to @jeroenooms.bsky.social and the @bioconductor.bsky.social team! Also, @rconsortium.bsky.social always supporting the R ecosystem 🙏

I'm very excited about this collaboration between @ropensci.org's R-Universe and @bioconductor.bsky.social to build common infrastructure: modernizing build systems for #RStats while expanding and testing new models for governance and development. ropensci.org/blog/2026/04...

Thanks to @jeroenooms.bsky.social for his leadership, the @bioconductor.bsky.social team for being great collaborators, and @rconsortium.bsky.social for their support!

Open source in R - don’t know where to start? Start TOMORROW! R Consortium webinar (Wed, April 8): “Make your first R open source project contribution with git, forks, and PRs” 👉 Register here: r-consortium.org/webinars/mak... Build real experience. Collaborate globally. Contribute to R.

🚀 The R Consortium Technical Grant Cycle is now open! Have an idea to improve R’s technical infrastructure? Apply for funding! 📅 Apply by May 1 📅 Decisions by June 1 r-consortium.org/all-projects... #rstats #opensource #datascience #rconsortium #rcommunity

‪Contribute to an R open source project! “Make your first R open source project contribution with git, forks, and PRs” with Daniel Chen, Lecturer at Univ of British Columbia Part of the lead-up to R/Medicine 2026! 👉 Register: r-consortium.org/webinars/mak... #rstats #opensource

Open source succeeds when there is sustained investment, coordination, and leadership. Terri Christiani, Executive Director, R Consortium, outlines why the momentum in the R ecosystem right now is so strong. r-consortium.org/posts/commun... #rstats #opensource @terrychristiani.bsky.social

R Dev Days are short events to work collaboratively on contributions to base R, the core functionality of the R programming language. Check out the list of R Dev Days in 2026! contributor.r-project.org/events/r-dev... #rstats #opensource @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy

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! rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #opensource #publichealth #healthdata

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! r-consortium.org/posts/igniti... #rstats #opensource

The R/Medicine Call for Proposals has been extended by one week! New deadline: March 13 First-time speakers are encouraged! Need feedback on your abstract? [email protected] rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #opensource #healthcare

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 r-consortium.org/posts/jeremy... #rstats #opensource #community

R/Medicine CFP is open 🩺🧪 Deadline: March 6 - still time! Submit: Talks, Lightning Talks, Demos, Workshops - Using R + Shiny for health, lab, clinical data First-time speaker? Email for feedback: [email protected] rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #datascience

Big shout out to @terrychristiani.bsky.social and team. Great conf.

what a great event! I'm still unpacking all the information shared 🤯 @rconsortium.bsky.social is putting together some awesome conferences & would highly recommend attending these!

Risk 2026 is this week, there's still plenty of time to register! Full program here: rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website...

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, get involved! r-consortium.org/posts/submis... #clinicaltrials #regulatoryscience

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: rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website/ #rstats #datascience #risk

Malaysia’s R community is growing! 🇲🇾 From a small network into a platform that actively connects students, researchers, and industry practitioners r-consortium.org/posts/bringi... #rstats #opensource #datascience #Malaysia #Shiny #tidyverse #community #analytics

Risk 2026 is coming up in two weeks! 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... Register now! rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website/

Risk 2026: “Bayesian R Framework for Quantifying Cyber Risk (FAIR + MITRE ATT&CK)” Open, reproducible R workflow using {cmdstanr} + Monte Carlo to estimate ALE, incident frequency, and loss exceedance curves. Abstract: rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website... #RStats #CyberSecurity

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! rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website... @mike-thomas.bsky.social #rstats #risk #docker

From the nlmixr2 Working Group—the 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). r-consortium.org/posts/from-n... #rstats #submissions #pharma

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. Reproducibility, AI, Security, risk visuals... rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website... #rstats

R Consortium-funded: {inphr} brings statistical inference to persistence diagrams in R (permutation tests + diagram distances; plus curve-based summaries via {TDAvec} to localize differences). r-consortium.org/posts/statis... #rstats #TopologicalDataAnalysis #PersistentHomology #OpenSource

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: Don't miss it! r-consortium.org/webinars/sca... #rstats #apachearrow

Risk 2026 has talks covering finance, public health, climate, cyber security and more. The R community will be looking in depth at all kinds of risk and how it is measured and communicated. Join us! Connect with the R community! rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website/ #rstats #datascience #risk

R Consortium webinar: Scaling up data analysis in R with Arrow. Learn larger-than-memory workflows, why Parquet matters, and where DuckDB fits—w/ Dr Nic Crane (Arrow R maintainer; Apache Arrow PMC). Register: r-consortium.org/webinars/sca... #rstats #arrow @niccrane.bsky.social

New! Ella Kaye on the R Contributors project—R Dev Days, office hours, and how GitHub helps lower barriers to contributing to base R - plus a “learn with joy” story and history of rainbowR for LGBTQ+ folk who code in R r-consortium.org/posts/contri... @ellakaye.co.uk #rstats #opensource

Super excited for this! We have finance, public health, climate, and cyber security talks about RISK!!! I am thrilled that we are going to talk about all kinds of risk and how it is measured and communicated. I hope you can join us! #rstats

Announcing Risk 2026 (Feb 18–19) - 2-day, 100% online For anyone using R to measure, report, or mitigate risk (finance, insurance, healthcare, climate, cybersecurity, supply chain, etc.). Keynote: JD Long, author of R Cookbook. Tickets $25/$50/$70. rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website #rstats

R-Mob at Charles Sturt Univ (AU) uses #rstats for agronomy + environment. Best part: “Digital Divide in Agriculture”—students learn data/programming by analyzing family farm records + trial plots. r-consortium.org/posts/crops-... #AgTech #DigitalAgriculture #DataScience #OpenSource

Cape Town R User Group: applied infectious disease modeling and DTPBoost to support DTP booster decisions They also discuss DTPBoost, an R-based tool developed with partners including CDC and AFENET to support DTP booster vaccination strategy decisions r-consortium.org/posts/applie... #rstats

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...