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R Medicine 2026 - main graphic - Call for Proposal, deadline March 6

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: rmedicine.conference@gmail.com

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

headshots of all the speakers at Risk 2026

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 speaker headshot - Joshua Connors, Cyber Security Risk Management Engineer, Viasat

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

Risk 2026 - Michael Thomas, Chief Data Scientist, Ketchbrook Analytics, will present on "Fully Reproducible Model Validation Reports Using Docker, R, Quarto, {renv} and {targets}"

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

main image for Risk 2026 - Feb 18-19, 2026

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

image for R Consortium webinar: Scaling Up Data Analysis in R with Arrow

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

logo for Risk 2026 - being held Feb 18-19, 2026

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

main image for Scaling Up Data Analysis in R with Arrow R Consortium webinar

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

picture of people from R Project Sprint, University of Warwick, 2023

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

logo of Risk 2026 conference

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

logo for R-Mob, the R user group at Charles Sturt University (CSU), Australia

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

picture of Cape Town R User Group organizers

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

mosaic of images from R Consortium activities in 2025

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

EnviroDataR Group Nepal training session images

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

image of the Budapest Users of R Network (BURN) meeting with lecturer and attendees

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

Risk event logo, being held Feb 18-19, 2026

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.

picture of many attendees from the 3rd PharmaRUG Conference March 2025

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