Original blog post by Heather Turner here: RSMF: Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R
From the blog post:
The Software Sustainability Institute (UK) has awarded a grant of £500k (~650k USD) under the Research Software Maintenance Fund, to the project Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R.
The project is co-led by research software engineers at the University of Birmingham (Heather Turner and Ella Kaye), members of the R Core Team (Simon Urbanek and Peter Dalgaard), and a team of academic/freelance R developers (Gabe Becker, Kylie Bemis, Mikael Jagan, Jeroen Ooms). The project will receive further support from the R Consortium (developer events and travel support), the R Foundation (travel support for core developers), and several companies dedicating staff time: Posit, A2-Ai, and Google.
The overall aim is to address the challenge of sustaining the R Project. This will be achieved through work on four areas described below.
The overall aim is to address the challenge of sustaining the R Project. This will be achieved through work on four areas described below.