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The R Consortium R Submissions Working Group continues to help move regulatory submissions with R from concept to practical implementation.
In Pilot 4, the group explored WebAssembly and Docker containers for packaging and running an R Shiny app for regulatory review.
FDA feedback showed both approaches are technically feasible, highlighting practical needs around reproducibility, security, reviewer usability, and operational readiness.
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R Consortium working groups are a practical on-ramp into the R community: open collaboration, technical contribution, and domain-specific work - often without needing to be from an R Consortium member company.
The nlmixr2 working group has a new post on an invited seminar with FDA quantitative clinical pharmacology reviewers, covering open source tools, regulatory review, reproducibility, model interchange, and reviewer-friendly workflows.
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Missed R/Medicine 2026? Watch the recording of “You Should Probably Map That: Introduction to Geospatial Analysis in R.”
This 1-hr demo, led by Anjile An, Weill Cornell Medical College, introduces practical geospatial analysis in R and shows how mapping can help reveal patterns, communicate results, and make health data more actionable.
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If you’ve thought about contributing to open source in R but didn’t know where to start, this is your entry point.
“Make your first R open source project contribution with git, forks, and PRs”
with Daniel Chen, Lecturer at Univ of British ColumbiaPractical walkthrough using real workflows from the R ecosystem.
Part of the lead-up to R/Medicine 2026!
👉 Register here: https://r-consortium.org/webinars/make-your-first-r-open-source-project-contribution.html
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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!
https://r-consortium.org/posts/igniting-an-r-movement-in-the-philippines-rnvsus-open-science-vision/
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R and Security!
From the Risk 2026 talk “A Bayesian R Framework for Quantifying Cyber Risk Using the FAIR Model and MITRE ATT&CK”:
A fully open, R-based quantitative cyber-risk model combining FAIR + MITRE ATT&CK. Uses {cmdstanr}, Bayesian inference, and Monte Carlo to estimate ALE, incident frequency, and loss exceedance curves—transparent + reproducible.
Abstract: https://rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website/Abstracts.html#joshua-connors
Register for Risk 2026!
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Latest from the new R Consortium nlmixr2 Working Group:
nlmixr2—an 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).
Read the full details in their newest blog post:
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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.
Reproducible validation, Agentic R workflows, Security, risk visuals (ggplot design), outbreak-time geospatial risk modelling, much more...
Check out the full schedule and register now! https://rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website/program.html
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R Consortium-funded tooling for TDA in R: statistical inference for persistence diagrams
Persistence diagrams are great summaries of “shape in data” (persistent homology) — but many workflows stop at plotting. The {inphr} package goes further: statistical inference for samples of persistence diagrams, aimed at comparing populations of diagrams across data types.
Read: https://r-consortium.org/posts/statistical-inference-for-persistence-diagrams/
#rstats #TDA #TopologicalDataAnalysis #PersistentHomology #Statistics #DataScience #OpenSource
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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: https://r-consortium.org/webinars/scaling-up-data-analysis-in-r-with-arrow.html
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Crops, code, and community 🌾💻🤝
R-Mob at Charles Sturt University (Australia) brings researchers + students together to apply #rstats to real agronomic and environmental problems through monthly hybrid meetups.
A standout section: “Digital Divide in Agriculture.” Many ag students still face a gap in data literacy + programming. This project uses R to pull insights from family farm records and experimental plot data
https://r-consortium.org/posts/crops-code-and-community-build-r-mob-user-group-in-australia
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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
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Gergely Daróczi on reviving Budapest Users of R Network (BURN) + using R with Strava data for daily insights—his personal diabetes story.
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R Consortium applauds the R Foundation & R Core on a major new investment in R’s future!
Nearly $650K (£499,981.21) over 24 months for “Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R,” modernizing infrastructure & governance, mentoring new contributors, and strengthening communication.
Partners include Posit, Google, A2-Ai and the R Consortium
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Webinar: Making Health Economic Models Shiny — Excel → R & Shiny
Tue Nov 18 · 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm GMT
Practical migration tips for HTA teams: pitfalls, workflows, reproducibility.
Speakers: Dr Robert Smith, Dr Wael Mohammed (Dark Peak Analytics)
Register: https://r-consortium.org/webinars/making-health-economic-models-shiny.html
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Get funding for your R project! 🚀 R Consortium tech grants support open-source tools + community initiatives.
⏰ 2 weeks left to apply: https://r-consortium.org/all-projects/callforproposals.html
Past grantee: “Straightforward, smooth, and helpful. Highly recommended.” – Andreas Neudecker
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📢 Aug 28, 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET – R Consortium webinar: Unlocking Collaborative Power with Git, GitHub CI/CD & LLMs in Pharma
Learn how pharma teams use GitHub Actions for automated QC, cut errors, and speed workflows—plus an LLM preview for QC edge cases.
Speakers: Ning Leng (Roche), Eli Miller (Atorus Research), and Ben Straub (GSK)
#rstats #opensource #clinicaltrials #pharma #DevOps #LLM #GitHub #CI_CD
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TODAY! Water quality monitoring using R, Posit and Esri - modernizing data collection methods
From Virginia Dept of Environmental Quality (DEQ)
Webinar - June 27, 1pm ET
#EnvironmentalMonitoring #RStats #WaterData #GIScience #Esri
@posit_pbc
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TOMORROW! June 27, 1pm ET
Integrating R, Posit and Esri to modernize data collection methods for water quality monitoring
From Virginia Dept of Environmental Quality (DEQ) - https://r-consortium.org/webinars/from-paper-to-pixels-digitizing-water-quality-data-collection-with-posit-and-esri-integration.html
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Digitizing Water Quality Data Collection with Posit and Esri Integration
Webinar - This Friday! June 27, 1pm ET
The VA Dept of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will cover their integration of Posit and Esri to modernize data collection methods for water quality monitoring.
Sign up now!
#EnvironmentalMonitoring #RStats #WaterData #GIScience #Esri #posit #Rstudio
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Tidy topological machine learning with TDAvec and tdarec by Jason Cory Brunson, Alexsei Luchinsky, Umar Islambekov
Topological data analysis (TDA) is increasingly integrated into machine learning. Introducing two R packages—TDAvec and tdarec—to bridge TDA with the Tidymodels ecosystem, offering efficient persistent homology vectorization and tidy ML pipelines.
Bug reports, feature requests, and code contributions welcome!
https://r-consortium.org/posts/tidy-topological-machine-learning-with-tdavec-and-tdarec/
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🌟 Join Us in Advancing The Pharma Industry! 🌟
The R Consortium and R Validation Hub are excited to announce the launch of our fundraising campaign for the Regulatory R Repository! This initiative aims to support the pharmaceutical industry's transition to using the R statistical programming language for clinical research and drug submissions.
https://www.pharmar.org/repository/
Let's make a difference together! 💪📊
#Pharma #ClinicalResearch #RLanguage #OpenSource #RegulatoryCompliance #DataScience
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New Generations Working to Strengthen the Community
R en Buenos Aires User Group organizer Andrea Gomez Vargas is connecting with new generations, exploring new tools and opportunities, and so much more!
Exceptional!
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🚀 New blog post alert!
Andreas Neudecker shares his journey developing a Kafka client for #R, funded by the R Consortium: "We realized there was no stable Kafka client available for R… Having a Kafka client for R would have made the process much smoother."
Discover how this project is bridging real-time data gaps in R! Read the blog here 👉https://r-consortium.org/posts/bridging-the-real-time-gap-how-inwt-is-bringing-apache-kafka-to-the-r-ecosystem/
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✨ Neil Shephard, co-organizer of Sheffield R User Group, shares his story with the R Consortium on reviving Sheffield R User Group and developing tools for thyroid cancer prediction. "I’m focused on creating a local group to foster connections."
Discover his journey: https://r-consortium.org/posts/reviving-sheffield-r-user-group-and-building-tools-for-thyroid-cancer-prediction/
#RCommunity #OpenScience #Hacktoberfest #ThyroidCancer #HybridEvents
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📢 Check out the latest blog on the San Carlos R User Group! 🌍 Frans van Dunné shares how they’ve connected LATAM’s data lovers with ConectaR, Data Latam, and more.
“Having individuals from different parts of Latin America join us was truly amazing.”
Dive into the full story here: https://r-consortium.org/posts/conectaR-podcasts-and-datathons-san-carlos-r-user-group-in-costa-rica/
#rstats #ConectaR #DataLatam #datathon #LATAM #data #community
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🦠🚀 Empowering #Dengue research through data! The Dengue Data Hub, an initiative by the R Consortium, is revolutionizing access to dengue-related data. Learn how researchers can easily use this resource with the denguedatahub package, Shiny app, and website.
🔗https://r-consortium.org/posts/empowering-dengue-research-through-the-dengue-data-hub/
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📢 Exciting news! The Tidy Finance Webinar Series "Evaluate Performance using the Capital Asset Pricing Model" is now available to watch on the R Consortium's YouTube channel! 🎥💼
Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DdCSpuhkt4
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🚨 Today's the day! Don't miss our Tidy Finance webinar on the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) by @christophscheuc at 12:00 pm ET. Join us to learn how to calculate Alpha & Beta in R and enhance your finance skills. There's still time to register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5vg15jweT3u-46MGkgk6lw
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⏰ The countdown is on! Our Tidy Finance webinar on the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) by @christophscheuch is just two days away! Ready to master Alpha & Beta with R? Join us on October 9th at 12:00 pm ET.
Last chance to register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5vg15jweT3u-46MGkgk6lw
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🗓️ Just one week to go until our Tidy Finance webinar on the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) by @christophscheuch! Don't miss this opportunity to dive deep into Alpha & Beta, with hands-on R examples. Join us on October 9th at 12:00 pm ET!
Register now: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5vg15jweT3u-46MGkgk6lw
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📢 Missed the #RMedicine 2024 session on "RosyREDCap – a REDCap-project-agnostic R package"? 🌟 The recording is now live on YouTube! 🎥 Learn how this R package can enhance your REDCap projects. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqgbUwZzkXc
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🌟 Unlock the secrets of the Capital Asset Pricing Model by @christophscheuch ! Join us on October 9th at 12:00 pm ET to learn the ins and outs of Alpha & Beta, with hands-on R examples.
Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5vg15jweT3u-46MGkgk6lw
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🚀 Unlock chemical volatility with #volcalc, a powerful #RPackage developed by Kristina Riemer and @LeafyEricScott It automates the calculation of chemical compound volatilities, making research faster and more efficient.
"The purpose of volcalc was to transform the process from taking months to gather details for 300 compounds to obtaining information for thousands in a much shorter time." – Kristina Riemer
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🚀 Want to master the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)? Join @christophscheuch and the Tidy Finance team on October 9th at 12:00 pm ET! Learn how to calculate Alpha & Beta in R and take your finance skills to the next level!
📈 Register now: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5vg15jweT3u-46MGkgk6lw
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🚀 The rise of R in China’s pharmaceutical industry is here! PharmaRUG organizer Joe Zhu shares insights on the growing R community, hybrid event success, and their open-source contributions.
"Since our establishment last year, we've organized large-scale hybrid events and significantly impacted the pharma R community." - Joe Zhu#RStats #PharmaRUG #PharmaIndustry #DataScience #China #OpenSource
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Registrations are open for the online Health Technology Assessment (HTA) summer workshop the R for Health Technology Assessment Academic Consortium offers! 🌐📊 https://r-hta.org/
Join us to enhance your HTA skills using R. Learn more and register here: https://r-hta.org/events/workshop/2024/
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Hey everyone! 🌟 "Keeping compatibility with the evolving ecosystem is vital for the long-term success of the project." @kirill Müller's work on enhancing R's database connectivity with the {DBI} package is nothing short of revolutionary. Join us in exploring his journey, the challenges faced, and the groundbreaking solutions. A truly inspiring read for anyone passionate about #DataScience and #RStats. 🎉🔍
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🤓 Data wizards, join us on Feb 27th at 2:00 PM ET for a journey into the magic of OML4R with Mark Hornick and Sherry LaMonica from Oracle! Our webinar will elevate your skills to new heights. Get ready for some data enchantment! ✨
🔗 https://www.r-consortium.org/escape-the-data-dungeon-unlock-scalable-r-analytics-and-ml
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💡 Pfizer's journey to R adoption is a story of innovation and collaboration. Be part of this informative webinar to learn from their experience with Natalia Andriychuk from Pfizer. Great for anyone in data analysis and R programming! 📆 Feb 8, 2024.
#DataRevolution #PfizerRJourney
Register now! https://www.r-consortium.org/from-vision-to-action-the-r-pfizer-r-center-of-excellence-led-journey-to-r-adoption
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🚨 Today is the Deadline! 🚨 Submit your paper for the R/Finance conference NOW!
Last chance to present at this exciting event where #RStats meets finance. Don’t miss this opportunity to showcase your work!
🔗 Submit here before it's too late: https://web.cvent.com/event/406dc106-6cd2-4ab8-af7f-7aa3e2aaa33d/summary
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🚀 Elevate the finance industry with your research! R/Finance conference awaits your papers.
✨ Topics: Fintech innovation, quantitative models, asset management & more using #RStats.
📆 Submit by Jan 26, 2024: https://web.cvent.com/event/406dc106-6cd2-4ab8-af7f-7aa3e2aaa33d/summary
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📊🔍 Do you use Census data in your research? The R Consortium Census Working Group is helping professionals who use the R programming language find out what the Census Bureau provides, how CRAN can help, and how you can learn more. Your input is crucial in shaping community insights and future plans. Please take our quick and easy survey. Let your voice be heard!
#CensusSurvey #CommunityVoice #Rstats #DataScience #OpenSource
Check out the survey here: