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The full R+AI 2026 schedule is up! Nov 10-11. 100% online. Keynotes, talks, lightning talks, a workshop, and a tutorial. A taste: statistical thinking when AI writes the code, agents in R, private AI for sensitive data, and shipping R models to production. rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...

You don't have to be a C programmer to contribute to R. R Core members Simon Urbanek, Kurt Hornik, and Heather Turner explain how to report bugs, propose features, improve docs/translations, join an R Dev Day, or submit a patch. r-consortium.org/posts/how-do... #rstats #opensource #RConsortium

A pharmacometric fit can take minutes to weeks. nlmixr2save 0.2.0, now on CRAN, keeps it readable and skips the rerun when nothing changed. A fit is the saved result of estimating a drug model against observed data. r-consortium.org/posts/nlmixr... #RStats #Pharmacometrics

Early Bird pricing ends Oct 12! Join us Nov 10–11 for R+AI 2026, the R Consortium's virtual conference exploring R and AI. Talks, workshops, and panels on LLMs, machine learning, AI-assisted coding, and more. Register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs... #RStats #AI

Census blocks, precincts, and electoral maps rarely line up. Christopher T. Kenny on R package {geomander}. New R Consortium interview. r-consortium.org/posts/from-c... #rstats #RConsortium #PoliticalScience #Redistricting

TOMORROW! 📣 Sustaining R: Investing in the People, Infrastructure, and Community Behind R Join Simon Urbanek, Kurt Hornik & Heather Turner to discuss R’s future. Oct 6 | 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET / 8 PM London Register: r-consortium.org/webinars/sus... #rstats #opensource

New from the R Consortium’s nlmixr2 Working Group: model diagrams and equations, straight from the code. See how a fitted model can generate its own diagram and equations: r-consortium.org/posts/nlmixr... #RStats #Pharmacometrics

NEXT WEEK! Register now! "Sustaining R: Investing in the People, Infrastructure, and Community Behind R" R Core / R Foundation panel discussion Oct 6 Simon Urbanek, Kurt Hornik, Heather Turner. Hosted by R Consortium. r-consortium.org/webinars/sus... #RStats #opensource

Apply for an R Consortium Technical Grant! The deadline is TOMORROW October 1 at 11:59 PM ET. If you have an idea that could strengthen R’s technical infrastructure or benefit the broader R community, get your proposal in! r-consortium.org/all-projects... #RStats #OpenSource#TechnicalGrants

"Sustaining R: Investing in the People, Infrastructure, and Community Behind R" Register for Oct 6 R Core / R Foundation panel discussion Simon Urbanek, Kurt Hornik & Heather Turner. Hosted by R Consortium. r-consortium.org/webinars/sus... #RStats

What does it take to sustain R? Join R Consortium, R Core & R Foundation Oct 6 to discuss the people, infrastructure & community behind R. 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET / 8 PM London Register: r-consortium.org/webinars/sus... #RStats

New from the R Consortium’s nlmixr2 Working Group: adaptive dosing in rxode2. nlmixr2 is an open-source R ecosystem for pharmacometrics and modeling drug behavior and dosing. See how dosing can adapt during simulation: r-consortium.org/posts/nlmixr... #RStats #RLang

🐦 What is the BirdNET team at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology building with R? Sunny Tseng, PhD takes us inside birdnetTools 2.0, helping researchers turn millions of BirdNET detections into ecological insight. r-consortium.org/posts/from-b... #RStats #BirdNET @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social

💸 @rconsortium.bsky.social grant proposals are open!!! Get paid to bring your R tooling ideas to life! Some points for a successful app: 👇🏼 #rstats r-consortium.org/all-projects...

Have an idea that could strengthen the R ecosystem? The R Consortium is accepting proposals for its second Technical Grants cycle of 2026! 📅 Deadline: Oct. 1, 11:59 p.m. US ET Learn more & submit: r-consortium.org/all-projects... #RStats #OpenSource #RCommunity

A great Labor Day weekend project: submit your R+AI 2026 proposal! Share your work with R and AI, ML, LLMs, agents, coding assistants, data products, or responsible AI. 📅 Deadline: Sept. 7 💻 Online: Nov. 10–11 rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...

The R Consortium is now accepting submissions for the second 2026 technical grant cycle. We fund projects that strengthen R’s technical and social infrastructure! Applications close Oct 1, 2026 Submit your proposal: r-consortium.org/posts/r-cons... #rstats #opensource #grants

Happy to welcome two new members to the R Consortium Board, and six returning: Francesca Lazzeri of Microsoft (Premier) and Mutaz M. Jaber of Gilead Sciences (Core). Mike K Smith continues as Board Chair. r-consortium.org/posts/meet-o... @francescalazzeri.bsky.social #rstats #opensource

nlmixr2 7.0's covariance step is all grown up! Switch covariance methods without refitting, and get SEs for every estimated parameter - including residual error. r-consortium.org/posts/nlmixr... #RStats #nlmixr2

📣 The R+AI 2026 Call for Proposals is open! Share how you’re using R with AI, ML, LLMs, agents, coding assistants, data products, or responsible AI. Talks, lightning talks, workshops, and panels welcome. 📅 Submit by Sept. 7 💻 Online Nov. 10–11 rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs... #rstats

“You cannot shape a roadmap you are not part of.” - Benjamin Arancibia, R Consortium Board Member, on why participation matters. The views expressed are Ben's own. If R matters to your organization, join the R Consortium and help shape what comes next! Learn more: r-consortium.org/about/join.h...

R submissions to FDA are feasible, but they must be easy to reproduce and review. Practical guidance from the R Consortium Submissions Working Group: r-consortium.org/posts/making... #RStats #FDA

CFP for R+AI 2026 is open! Deadline: Sept 7. Second annual R Consortium conference on R + AI is being held Nov 10–11, 100% online. Share your ML, LLM, GenAI, and responsible AI workflows. Talks, lightning talks, workshops & panels welcome. rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs... #RStats #AI

"The software is free. The ecosystem is not." Benjamin Arancibia explains why organizations invest in the future of R. Learn why organizations join the R Consortium: r-consortium.org/about/join Views are Benjamin's own. #RStats #OpenSource

Organizations that invest in shared infrastructure help keep R strong for everyone. Mike K. Smith: "Using open source without contributing back is not a sustainable model." Views are Mike's own. Learn why orgs join the R Consortium: r-consortium.org/about/join.h... @mikeksmith.bsky.social

The R Consortium was proud to be a Platinum Sponsor of #useR2026. Mike K Smith reflects on why community investment matters and how organizations and individuals are shaping the future of R. r-consortium.org/posts/what-m... #RStats @user-conf.bsky.social

The R Consortium has announced the first round of 2026 ISC Technical Grants. 7 projects will receive funding to improve the technical infrastructure and long-term sustainability of the R ecosystem. Congratulations to this year's recipients! r-consortium.org/posts/r-cons... #RStats #OpenSource

How do you find an R package when you don't know its name? Kylie Ainslie's The Warehouse lets you search 23,000+ CRAN, Bioconductor & GitHub packages by task — with AI-assisted discovery. r-consortium.org/posts/the-wa... #RStats @kylieainslie.bsky.social #opensource

I’m at #useR2026 in SGH Warsaw representing @rconsortium.bsky.social. Opening keynote from Di Cook.

The nlmixr2 Working Group continues to expand what open-source R tooling can support in pharmacometrics: admixr2 fits PK/PD models to published aggregate data (literature mean±SD, published NLME models, joint study fits) via nlmixr2/rxode2. r-consortium.org/posts/fittin... #RStats #Pharmacometrics

How should researchers combine multiple expert judgments when consensus is hard? In a new R Consortium blog post, David P. Wilkinson and Elliot Gould introduce {aggreCAT}, an open-source R package for mathematically aggregating expert judgments. r-consortium.org/posts/introd... #RStats

New! Nicolas Nguyen discusses planr, the supply chain R package he developed, available on CRAN - planr moves planning work from spreadsheets into reproducible R workflows for projected inventories, constrained demand, more. r-consortium.org/posts/supply... #RStats #SupplyChain #OpenSource

Free full workshop video now available. Garrett Grolemund shows how to use AI + R with health data in Positron, including Quarto reports, dashboards, Shiny apps, and QueryChat. r-consortium.org/webinars/use... #rstats @posit.co

Deadline to register for R Dev Day @ Cascadia R 2026 is June 12. Join new and experienced contributors working on base R code, documentation, and contribution infrastructure. Free! pretix.eu/r-contributo... #rstats #CascadiaR @r-forwards.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy

Next week! Use AI to Build and Share Insights from Health Data Garrett Grolemund will focus on reproducible, auditable workflows for generating insights from health data June 11, 12–3 PM ET Register: r-consortium.org/webinars/use... #RStats #AI #Quarto #Shiny

New from the R Consortium nlmixr2 Working Group: nlmixr2 is expanding what open source R tooling can support in pharmacometrics, including time-to-event modeling workflows for clinical and drug-development settings. r-consortium.org/posts/surviv... #RStats #Pharmacometrics #PKPD #OpenSource

Upcoming free online R Consortium workshop on AI + R + health data With Garrett Grolemund co-author of R for Data Science, creator of the Lubridate R package, and ASA award-winning educator June 11, 12–3pm ET r-consortium.org/webinars/use... #RStats #HealthData

Agradecemos a nuetros sponsors para esta edición 2026 de #LatinR: @rconsortium.bsky.social y @posit.co 📍 Medellín, Colombia, 11 al 13 de Noviembre de 2026 latinr.org ⚡️ Todavia podes enviar tu charla o poster sobre #RStats openreview.net/group?id=LAT...

We’re excited to announce the sponsors supporting #LatinR 2026! 🎉 A huge thank you to @rconsortium.bsky.social and @posit.co for helping make this community-driven event possible and for their continued support of the #RStats in Latin America 💙 Stay tuned for more updates about #LatinR2026

R Consortium Executive Director Terry Christiani explains why open source packages, documentation, standards, and public examples strengthen the foundation AI tools depend on. r-consortium.org/posts/open-s... #RStats #OpenSource #AI @terrychristiani.bsky.social

📢 The call for submissions for LatinR 2026 has been extended! There’s still time to share your projects, experiences, and work with the R community in Latin America 💜 🗓️ New deadline: June 1 🔗 latinr.org 💬 Official languages: Spanish, Portuguese, English 📍Medellín, Colombia #rstats

The R Consortium R Submissions WG is helping move R-based regulatory submissions from concept to implementation. Pilot 4 explored WebAssembly and Docker for running an R Shiny app in regulatory review. FDA feedback showed practical next steps. r-consortium.org/posts/beyond... #rstats #shiny

R Consortium working groups are a great on-ramp into the R community. New from nlmixr2: reflections on an invited seminar with FDA quantitative clinical pharmacology reviewers, focused on open source tools, reproducibility, and regulatory readiness. blog.nlmixr2.org/blog/2026-04... #rstats

R/Medicine 2026 starts with 2 days of in-depth demos and workshops TOMORROW! There's still time to register! Full program here: rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #clinicaltrials #healthdata #healthcare

This week! R/Consortium 2026! May 5-8, 100% virtual 2 days of in-depth, hands-on demos and workshops, then 2 days of Keynotes, Talks, Lightning Talks - Ask questions, connect directly with speakers and peers rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #clinicaltrials #opensource #healthcare

R Consortium technical grants deadline coming up May 1 The R Consortium funds projects that strengthen the R ecosystem’s technical and social infrastructure. Help build the R community! Full details here: r-consortium.org/all-projects... List of previous projects: r-consortium.org/all-projects...

"Introduction to R for Clinical Data" Led by Richard Hanna, Data Science Supervisor with the Cell and Gene Therapy Informatics Team at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia At R/Medicine 2026, May 5-8! Register today! rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #clinicaltrials

R/Medicine 2026 is next week! Register now! Just one of the great lineup of workshops and demos: "You Should Probably Map That: Introduction to Geospatial Analysis in R" Anjile An, Weill Cornell Medical College rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #clinicaltrials #geospatial

R/Medicine 2026 covers R being used across the full health data workflow - from clinical data entry and REDCap pipelines to reproducible reporting, large-scale analysis, and AI-assisted tools. Register today! rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #clinicaltrials #healthdata #datascience

R/Medicine Hackathon is tomorrow! Focusing on the {teal} package, a framework for building interactive exploratory data analysis applications in clinical trials. Beginners welcome, registration for R/Medicine required. Sign up, prep, and all the deets here: rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we...