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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 7d

📢 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 Dev Day @ New Zealand 2025

Dec. 16th – 17th, 2025

pretix.eu

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 9d

**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 Dev Day @ Australia 2025

Fri, Nov. 21st, 2025

pretix.eu

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Peter Dalgaard @pdalgd.bsky.social · Jun 13

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.)

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useR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · Apr 21

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

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · Apr 22

Applications closing soon!

The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · Apr 2

📢 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

R Dev Day @ RSE Con25

Details and application form for a satellite event to RSECon25, gathering R developers for a day of working collaboratively on contributions to R, hosted at the University of Warwick, Friday 12 Septem...

warwick.ac.uk

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Peter Dalgaard @pdalgd.bsky.social · Apr 11

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.)

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · Apr 2

📢 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

R Dev Day @ RSE Con25

Details and application form for a satellite event to RSECon25, gathering R developers for a day of working collaboratively on contributions to R, hosted at the University of Warwick, Friday 12 Septem...

warwick.ac.uk

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · Mar 19

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 Contributors @r-contributors.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · Mar 19

✨ Join us at the R Dev Day @ useR! 2025 ✨

🏢 Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
📅 Mon 11 August, 09:00 - 17:00 EDT

We'll collaborate on contributions to the code, documentation & translations of base R, or infrastructure that supports such contribution.

Apply for a free place, deadline […]

Original post on hachyderm.io

hachyderm.io

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Peter Dalgaard @pdalgd.bsky.social · Feb 28

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

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useR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · Feb 3

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

Call for Submissions – useR! 2025

user2025.r-project.org

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · Jan 29

The R project has its own standard Windows toolchain to maintain binary compatibility between R, CRAN packages, and statically linked libraries. Tomas discusses the advantages and disadvantages of this approach before describing his experience testing R on Windows with alternative toolchains.

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · Jan 29

New #RStats blog post by Tomas Kalibera: Alternative toolchains on Windows.

blog.r-project.org/2025/01/28/a...

Alternative toolchains on Windows - The R Blog

blog.r-project.org

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R Contributors @r-contributors.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · Jan 27

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]

Participants at an R Dev Day sat at desks in classroom layout. The closest group has turned to smile at the camera, while others further away are glued to their laptop. A mix of ages, genders and nationalities are represented.

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Achim Zeileis @zeileis.org · Jan 22

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-...

Remembering Friedrich

This article remembers our friend and colleague Fritz Leisch (1968--2024) who sadly died earlier this year. Many of the readers of The R Journal will know Fritz as a member of the R Core Team and for ...

journal.R-project.org

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useR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · Jan 21

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

useR! 2025

user2025.r-project.org

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Achim Zeileis @zeileis.org · Dec 18

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

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Achim Zeileis @zeileis.org · Dec 18

🚨 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

Research Organization Registry (ROR) Search

ror.org

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · Dec 12

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...

Problems with iconv on macOS - The R Blog

blog.r-project.org

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · Dec 3

New #RStats blog post from Tomas Kalibera: Faster downloads.

blog.r-project.org/2024/12/02/f...

Faster downloads - The R Blog

blog.r-project.org

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · Nov 27

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

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Heather Turner :rstats: @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · Nov 26

The #latinr2024 videos are up already!

Watch by the day, session or individual talks:

https://www.youtube.com/@LatinR

Talk title indicates the language: Spanish/Portuguese/English

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · Nov 12

Join us at the online R Dev Day #LatinR 2024!

We'll collaborate on contributions to the code, documentation & translations of base R in two sessions, 18 and 19 November, 17:30 - 20:00 (UTC-3).

Free and open registration: latinr.org/en/cronogram...

#RStats #LatinR2024 #RDevDay

R Dev Day – LatinR 2024

latinr.org

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · Nov 1

Hi Jeremy, Thanks for putting this together. We've just created a bluesky account and would be grateful if you added this account to the list.

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Peter Dalgaard @pdalgd.bsky.social · Oct 31

#rstats
R version 4.4.2 "Pile of Leaves" (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.)

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