🚀 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...

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