R version 4.6.1 "Happy Hop" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now (update of manuals pending). #rstats

The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

John Fox (1947-2025) An obituary of R Foundation member John Fox by Peter Dalgaard. www.r-project.org/doc/obit/joh... #rstats

The first in a series of blog posts reporting back on milestones achieved through an investment in the R Project under the Sovereign Tech Fund: blog.r-project.org/2026/06/02/s... #RStats

We are pleased to announce that Mikael Jagan has joined the R Core Team. #RStats He has been an active contributor to the R project for several years, proposing bug fixes and enhancements. Further, he has been co-authoring/maintaining the important Matrix package and more recently lme4 and glmmTMB.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@R_Contributors/116322260081951659 ⏰ Applications close this Friday, May 8 (midnight Anywhere on Earth) ✨ Travel funding available ✨

Today marks 50 years since John Chambers and Rick Becker presented a new project to colleagues at Bell Labs - an interactive environment that became the S language. For more details, see the #RStats blog entry "S at 50": blog.r-project.org/2026/05/05/s...

Simon Urbanek of #rstats is one of the many deserving new ASA Fellows. Congratulations! 🎉

R version 4.6.0 "Because it was There" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now. #rstats The choice of codename is in remembrance of R Core member Tomàš Kalibera (1978-2026). Among many other things, he was a keen mountain climber.

Apply for a place at R Dev Day @ useR! 2026 by this Friday, April 24!

✨ The useR! 2026 Diversity Scholarship is open! We provide financial support to underrepresented groups in the #RStats community. We offer: 🎫 Registration waivers ✈️ Full needs-based grants (travel/lodging) ⏳ Apply by May 10! Find links in the comment below!

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing on 1 April of Tomáš Kalibera, a valuable member of the R Core Team for close to 10 years, after a short but aggressive illness. Tomáš is survived by his wife and 1 year old son. A full obituary will be posted in due time.

📢 R Dev Day @ CascadiaR 2026 🏢 Portland State University / Remote 📅 Fri 26 June, 9am - 5pm UTC-7 Registration deadline: Friday 12 June https://pretix.eu/r-contributors/r-dev-day-cascadiar-2026 Attend this free event to collaborate on contributions to #rstats. #rdevday #cascadiarconf

We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways #RStats.

R version 4.5.3 "Reassured Reassurer" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now. #rstats

Opening for a tenure track position in statistical computing: wirtschaftsuniversitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com/Assistant-Pr... As dept chair, R Core member Kurt Hornik invites applications from people who could make substantial contributions to #RStats, including base R. Deadline Mar 18!

#rstats 4.5.3 "Reassured Reassurer" scheduled for March 11. Full schedule on developer.r-project.org (or the svn if you're impatient.) This should be the wrap-up release for the 4.5 series.

📣 The useR! 2026 committee invites global R users and developers to submit abstracts for talks, panels, posters, and tutorials! Submissions are peer-reviewed based on content and balance. You're welcome to apply! Find more at: user2026.r-project.org/call/ #useR2026 #DataScience #Poland #Warsaw

Thanks to everyone that replied to this, we submitted our response last week: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet.... You can view all responses, including several from other foundations supporting OSS projects (full comments are often in a download).

📣 registration for the rainbowR conference is now live 🎉 The conference is for anyone interested in R and/or analysing data to understand LGBTQ+ issues. The majority of speakers and workshop leaders are LGBTQ+, but you do not have to be LGBTQ+ to attend. pretix.eu/rainbowr/con... #RStats #LGBTQ

New #RStats blog post from Tomas Kalibera: Debugging Sensitivity to C math library on Linux. Following on from the previous blog entry, this post introduces the mfuzz tool which can be used on Linux to empirically calibrate the tolerance of numerical tests. blog.r-project.org/2026/01/30/d...

We are responding to this call for evidence: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... Do you have concrete examples of the added value of #Rstats in the public or private sectors? Include the most important factors (risk, lock-in, security, innovation...) to assess the added value. Thanks!

📢 R Dev Day @ RencontresR 2026 🏢 Nantes University / Remote 📅 Fri 19 June, 9am - 5pm UTC+2 Registration deadline: Friday 29 May pretix.eu/r-contributo... Attend this free event to collaborate on contributions to #RStats. #RDevDay #RSEng

New #RStats blog entry from Tomas Kalibera: Debugging Sensitivity to C math library and mingw-w64 v12. C math library functions, such as exp or sin, are not guaranteed to be “precise”. The results might be slightly different on different platforms... blog.r-project.org/2026/01/06/d...

The R Foundation is happy to be a partner on the project "Enabling the next generation of R contributors" awarded £500k under the Research Software Maintenance Fund (Software Sustainability Institute, UK). Announcement: www.software.ac.uk/ssi-awards-f... Congratulations to the project team!

#rstats It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week. He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly. www.john-fox.ca

R version 4.5.2 "[Not] Part in a Rumble" (source version) has been released. (You can find it in cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/, or wait for CRAN to be updated.)

🚨 New CRAN Task View: Anomaly Detection #rstats #anomalydetection By Priyanga Dilini Talagala, Rob J. Hyndman @robjhyndman.com, Gaetano Romano URL: cran.r-project.org/view=Anomaly...

New on The R Blog from Tomas Kalibera: Reducing the Backlog of Open Bug Reports blog.r-project.org/2025/10/13/r... #RStats

Support Open-Source Data Science-Sponsor UseR! 2026 Join us in Warsaw 6–9 July 2026 at the premier event for R. As a sponsor, you help power an inclusive, high-impact event while reaching thousands of researchers, developers, and educators. user2026.r-project.org/about/sponso... #RStats #useR2026

New #RStats blog by Tomas Kalibera showing the impact of the recent investment by @sovereign.tech in the R project: Reducing the Backlog of Open Bug Reports blog.r-project.org/2025/10/13/r...

📢 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

**Just 2 in-person tickets left, a wait list is available!** 📢 R Dev Day @ Australia 🏢 Monash University, Melbourne 🌐 Remote, Australia 📅 Fri 21 Nov Registration deadline: Sun 16 Nov pretix.eu/r-contributo... Attend this free event to collaborate on contributions to #RStats. #RDevDay #RSEng

R version 4.5.1 "Great Square Root" (source version) has been released. (You can find it in cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/, or wait for CRAN to be updated.)

Early Bird for useR! 2025 is open until April 30th! Join this gathering of leaders in industry, academia, and the government to network while you increase your expertise in #R. useR! will be held from August 8th to August 10th at Duke University. Conference page: user2025.r-project.org #rstats

Applications closing soon!

R version 4.5.0 "How About a Twenty-Six" (source version) has been released. (You can find it in cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/, or wait for CRAN to be updated.)

📢 R Dev Day @ RSECon25 🏢Warwick University, UK 📅 Fri 12 Sep Apply to attend this free event, to collaborate on contributions to #RStats. ✨Travel funding available for participants from UK, Europe & Global South✨ Deadline Wed 23 Apr: warwick.ac.uk/statistics/n... #RSECon25 #RDevDay #RSEng

Apply to participate in R Dev Day @ useR! 2025, deadline Tuesday 15 April: user2025.r-project.org/additional/r... - registration at useR! 2025 is separate and not required. #RStats #RDevDay

R version 4.4.3 "Trophy Case" (source version) has been released. (You can find it in cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/, or wait for CRAN to be updated.) This coincides with as-close-as-we-can-get-to 25 years since the release of R 1.0.0. #rstats

UseR! 2025 Call for Proposals is now open! We invite R users and developers from around our region and the world to submit abstracts for useR! 2025. Deadline: Monday 3rd March 2025 useR! will be held from August 8th to 10th at Duke University in Durham, NC, USA. user2025.r-project.org/call #RStats

New #RStats blog post by Tomas Kalibera: Alternative toolchains on Windows. blog.r-project.org/2025/01/28/a...

Join us at the R Dev Day @ Rencontres R 2025! 🏢 University of Mons, Belgium 📅 Thu 22 May, 09:00 - 17:00 CEST We'll collaborate on contributions to the code, documentation & translations of base R, or infrastructure that supports such contribution. Free and […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Our friend and colleague Fritz Leisch died in April last year. In a new contribution to The R Journal we honor Fritz and commemorate his many contributions to science in general and to the R community in particular. #rstats journal.r-project.org/articles/RJ-...

The useR! 2025 site is live! You can check out the key dates to get a head start on writing your submission or travel planning. Who is looking forward to visiting North Carolina? The area should be beautiful in August for sure! #rstats user2025.r-project.org

The CRAN team is currently working on supporting ROR information in package metadata. The idea is to display it similar to ORCID information @orcid.org And also include it in the Crossref data associated with the DOI @crossref.bsky.social

🚨 Two #rstats related research orgs just joined @researchorgs.bsky.social R Core Team (developing base R) ror.org/02zz1nj61 R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social (broader group supporting R, confs, journal, etc.) ror.org/05qewa988

Iconv is a POSIX function for converting strings from one character encoding to another. MacOS 14.0 ships with a version of iconv that can cause crashes and incorrect conversions. This #RStats blog post by Tomas Kalibera describes the workarounds in R. blog.r-project.org/2024/12/11/p...

New #RStats blog post from Tomas Kalibera: Faster downloads. blog.r-project.org/2024/12/02/f...

We've put together a CRAN Task View for the paleontological community - a curated list of R packages relevant for paleontological research 📦🦕. You can install the CRAN Task View via: ctv::install.views("Paleontology") Docs: cran.r-project.org/web/views/Pa... #Paleontology #Rstats #Palaeoverse