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What Makes R Strong: Reflections from useR! 2026

From R Core governance and digital sovereignty to community resilience in Ukraine, R Consortium Board Chair Mike K Smith shares key emerging trends at useR! 2026 in Warsaw.

Mike K Smith, R Consortium Board Chair

Jul 20, 2026

R Consortium Awards First Round of 2026 Technical Grants

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The R Consortium’s Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) is pleased to announce the first round of 2026 technical grant recipients. These seven projects will receive…

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What Makes R Strong: Reflections from useR! 2026

R Consortium Awards First Round of 2026 Technical Grants

Searching the R Ecosystem by Function, Not Package Name

Fitting PK/PD Models to Published Data with admixr2

Introducing {aggreCAT}: Mathematical aggregation of expert judgments

Supply Chain Planning with R: An Interview with Nicolas Nguyen, Developer of the planr R Package

Survival Analysis with nlmixr2

Open Source Makes AI Better

Beyond Feasibility: Learning from FDA’s Response to WebAssembly and Container-Based Submissions

Investing in the R Community: Our Support for Global R Events in 2026

Collaborating between Bioconductor and R-universe on Development of Common Infrastructure

Q1 2026 Update: Community Growth, Collaboration, and Momentum Across the R Ecosystem

Igniting an R Movement in the Philippines: RNVSU’s Open Science Vision

Jeremy Horne on Building Inclusive R Communities Across the UK

R Submissions Working Group: 2026 Plans and 2025 Success

Bringing Students, Researchers, and Industry Together with R in Malaysia

From nlmixr2 Working Group: nlmixr2 inter occasion variability

Statistical Inference for Persistence Diagrams

Contributing to base R with Coding Equity and Joy - Inside the R Contributors Project

Crops, Code, and Community Build R-Mob User Group in Australia

Applied Epidemiology in R: Cape Town R User Group’s Contribution to Global Immunization

2025 in Review: Growth, Community, & Momentum

Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R

Empowering Government Professionals in Nepal Using R programming for Forestry Data Analysis

Reviving Budapest Users of R Network and Reversing Diabetes: How Gergely Daroczi Brings Data to Life with R

Johnson & Johnson’s Success Story: A Hybrid R/SAS Strategy for FDA Submission

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

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