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R Consortium blog archive (2015-2024)

Bridging Gaps and Breaking Barriers: A Year of R Innovation with the China PharmaRUG

Guest post: In 2025, the China PharmaRUG connected local and global R-in-pharma communities through hybrid events, an APAC track at R/Pharma, and a strategy-focused session…

Joe Zhu, Roche, Yanli Chang, Johnson & Johnson

Dec 11, 2025

Growing an R Community in a Shifting Tech Landscape: The Story of R-Ladies Zurich

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Luisa Barbanti, organizer of R-Ladies Zurich, shares how her team keeps a technically focused R community thriving in Switzerland as tools, workplaces, and expectations…

Dec 9, 2025

Expanded FDA eCTD File Format Support for R Packages — A Milestone Achieved Through Industry–FDA Collaboration

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A milestone! FDA expands accepted R file formats, resulting directly from joint work between industry and FDA through the R Consortium Submissions Working Group.

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Bridging Gaps and Breaking Barriers: A Year of R Innovation with the China PharmaRUG

Growing an R Community in a Shifting Tech Landscape: The Story of R-Ladies Zurich

Expanded FDA eCTD File Format Support for R Packages — A Milestone Achieved Through Industry–FDA Collaboration

A First for Pakistan: Karachi R User Group Builds R Ecosystem from Scratch

R Consortium announces JD Long as keynote speaker for R!sk 2026

Connecting Pharma, Students, and R: Ronak Shah on Strengthening the Pune R Ecosystem

nlmixr2 is Becoming an R Consortium Working Group

From the adas.utils Package to R-Trento: Paolo Bosetti on Building Tools and Community

Expanding the Reach of R Across Cleveland’s Data and Tech Community

kuzco | Computer Vision made easy

Introducing {geodl}: An R package for geospatial semantic segmentation

Jarl: just another R linter

mini007 - A Lightweight Framework for Multi-Agent Orchestration in R

Brand your docs, apps, and ggplots using LLMs

Gradient Boosting Machines (GBMs) in the Age of LLMs and ChatGPT

Keeping LLMs in Their Lane: Focused AI for Data Science and Research

Me, Myself, and Claude: Scaling an R Consultancy with AI-Assisted Development

Tracking the Evolution of R and Python Tools for GenAI

R+AI: Use RAG from your database to gain insights into the R Consortium

Learning Shiny, Together: A Collaborative Reading Club Around Mastering Shiny in Buenos Aires

The Sovereign Tech Fund invests $450,000 in R Foundation to Enhance R’s Sustainability and Security

Oracle R Distribution 4.4.1 Now Available with Enhanced Performance

🚀 R Consortium Technical Grant Cycle Opens Today — Your Chance to Make a Mark

Spotify Stats and Real Estate Insights: R User Group Finland Builds Practical Projects

How R Powers Cancer Research and Community Teaching in Austria

R Loves Math: cpp11armadillo connects R with Armadillo C++ linear algebra library, prioritizes prioritize safety over speed

Julia Silge on Fostering a Technical, Inclusive R Community in Salt Lake City

R for Health Technology Assessment (HTA): Identifying Needs, Streamlining Processes, Building Bridges

R+AI Call for Proposals

UPDATED: Teaching R to investigative journalists in Brazil

Strength in Numbers

“Visualise, Optimise, Parameterise!” - Writing dataviz code - UPDATED

A Framework for Cohort Building in R - Nuria Mercade-Besora and Edward Burn

In the Nix of Time: Creating a reproducible analytical environment with Nix and {rix}

REDCapSync and RosyREDCap for standardized data pipelines and exploratory data analysis

The power of {targets} package for reproducible data science

First Steps with SQL in R: Making Data Talk

Quarto Dashboards: from zero to publish in one hour

Supporting R learners on the job during interesting times: A panel of R educators

Using R shiny to perform and automate decision-analytic modeling for cost-effectiveness analysis

Visualising data for patients: create accessible charts

Advanced Distance Metrics for High-Dimensional Clustering: introducing ‘distanceHD’ R-package

An Accelerometry Biomarker Framework with Application in Vigilance in UK Biobank Data

Application of attention mechanism to improve performance of llm/mllm used across R/Medicine

Bedside to Bench - Reinventing medicine with AI

Bootstrap inference made easy: p-values and confidence intervals in one line of code

Co-occurrence analysis and knowledge graphs for suicide risk prediction

Dengue Forecasting Addressing the Interrupted Effect from COVID-19 Cases

Ethical Considerations of Contrasts in Statistical Modeling of Medical Equity

Improving Reproducibility of Medical Research with Controlled Vocabularies

Mix, Pour, Share: The rUM Cocktail for Biomedical Project Packaging

Model Evaluation: From Machine Learning to Generative AI

No More Copy-Paste: Automating Patient Inquiry Tracking in Pharma with Shiny

nonprobsvy – An R package for modern methods for non-probability survey

Opening Remarks - Day 2

Optimizing Public Healthcare Cost Recovery with R: A Use Case from Argentina

Preprocessing Electronic Health Records for Analysis-Ready Data in an Asthma Cohort

rainbowR: A community for LGBTQ+ folks who code in R

Refactor or Preserve? Challenging ‘If It Ain’t Broken, Don’t Fix It’ Mindset in Shiny App Lifecycle

Retrospective clinical data harmonisation reporting using R and Quarto

riskcalc.org: A Repository of Risk Calculators for Medical Decision Making

Rix: reproducible data science environments with Nix

R/Medicine 2025 - Closing Remarks - Final Day - Michael Kane

R/Medicine 2025 Opening Remarks - Thursday

R/Medicine Day 1 Closing Remarks

Supercharging Statistical Analysis with ARDs and the {cards} R Package

Swimmer Plots with ggswim

teal Mastery: From Pre-built Modules to Custom Module Creation

Unified Deep Learning Survival Analysis for Competing Risk Modeling with Functional Covariates

Unlocking Statistical Consistency Across Platforms: The CAMIS Project

Validating Shiny Apps in Regulated Environments

What to Do When Shiny Packages Don’t Fully Support Your Idea

{redquack}: An R Package for Memory Efficient REDCap-to-DuckDB Workflows

AOUSDOHtools: R Package for Social Determinants of Health Survey data in All of Us Research Program

Examining Factors Associated with Depressive Severity Among Cancer Survivors

kidney.epi R Package for Facilitating Research in Diabetes, Kidney, Heart, and Other Diseases

MIIPW: An R package for Generalized Estimating Equations with missing data integration

How are Vaccination Rates and Case Rates Changing for Measles in 2025?

Identifying Measles Immunity Gaps in the US: A Comprehensive Analysis by Iko Musa

From the `adas.utils` Package to R-Trento: Paolo Bosetti on Building Tools and Community

Introducing `{geodl}`: An R package for geospatial semantic segmentation

`teal` Mastery: From Pre-built Modules to Custom Module Creation

Exploring `{kuzco}`: Making Computer Vision for R Easily Accessible

Reproducibility Without Containers: Bruno Rodrigues Introduces Nix and the `{rix}` R Package