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The central mission of the R Consortium is to support to the R Foundation and key organizations developing, maintaining, distributing R software through the identification, development and implementation of infrastructure projects.
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
November 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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**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 […]
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September 29, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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📢 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
R Dev Day @ New Zealand 2025
Dec. 16th – 17th, 2025
pretix.eu
October 13, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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
November 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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
November 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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
November 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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...
October 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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...
October 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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
October 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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
October 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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
October 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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
October 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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
October 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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
October 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
📢 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
October 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
🚨 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
The Sovereign Tech Fund invests $450,000 in R Foundation to Enhance R’s Sustainability and Security – R Consortium
R Foundation embarking on a crucial project to modernize R’s core infrastructure, improve its maintainability, and fortify its supply chain.
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October 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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
September 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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
September 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
🚀 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
September 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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
September 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Get funding for your R project! 🚀 R Consortium tech grants support open-source tools + community initiatives.

⏰ 2 weeks left to apply: r-consortium.org/all-projects...

Past grantee: “Straightforward, smooth, and helpful. Highly recommended.” – Andreas Neudecker

#rstats #opensource #rprogramming
September 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Upcoming R Consortium webinar:

👉 How to Use pointblank to Understand, Validate, and Document Your Data

🔗 r-consortium.org/webinars/how...

Learn how pointblank helps you explore datasets, validate tables, and document variables.

#rstats #opensource
September 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Apply now 🚀 R Consortium Technical Grants open until Oct 1, 2025

“ISC feedback helped me structure my proposal—great opportunity for funding & support.” — Emmanuel Blondel (#rstats geospatial pkg author)

🔗 Apply: r-consortium.org/all-projects...
September 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM