mastodon 4.7.3Not for profit organization founded by the R Core Team to provide support for the R project. A reference point for interaction with the R development community. #RStats
Today marks 50 years since John Chambers and Rick Becker presented a new project to colleagues at Bell Labs - an interactive environment that became the S language.
For more details, see the #RStats blog entry "S at 50":
We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @HeathrTurnr@fosstodon.org has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways. #Rstats
Co-initiator of @R_Contributors@hachyderm.io and co-founder of @RLadiesGlobal@hachyderm.io in 2016, Heather has been an R Foundation board member, member of the RF Conference committee, and involved in many useR! conferences @useR_conf@mastodon.social
R version 4.6.1 "Happy Hop" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now (update of manuals pending). #rstats
R version 4.6.0 "Because it was There" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now. #rstats
The choice of codename is in remembrance of R Core member Tomàš Kalibera (1978-2026). Among many other things, he was a keen mountain climber.
John Fox (1947-2025)
An obituary of R Foundation member John Fox by Peter Dalgaard.
https://www.r-project.org/doc/obit/johnfox.html
We are pleased to announce that Mikael Jagan @jaganmn@fosstodon.org has joined the R Core Team.
He has been an active contributor to the R project for several years, reporting bugs and proposing bug fixes and enhancements. Further, he has been co-authoring/maintaining the important Matrix package and more recently lme4 and glmmTMB.
Previously working in Ben Bolker's group at McMaster, he is starting a new job as Research Software Engineer with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
The first in a series of blog posts reporting back on milestones achieved through an investment in the R Project under the Sovereign Tech Fund:
https://blog.r-project.org/2026/06/02/sovereign-tech-fund-project-milestone-1
R version 4.5.3 "Reassured Reassurer" has been release. #rstats
Opening for a tenure track position in statistical computing:
As dept chair, R Core member Kurt Hornik invites applications from people who could make substantial contributions to #RStats, including base R.
Deadline Mar 18!
We are responding to this call for evidence:
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems_en
Do you have concrete examples of the added value of #Rstats in the public or private sectors?
Include the most important factors (risk, lock-in, security, innovation...) to assess the added value.
Thanks!
RE: @R_Foundation@fosstodon.org
Thanks to everyone that replied to this, we submitted our response last week: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems/F33370610_en.
You can view all responses, including several from other foundations supporting OSS projects (full comments are often in a download).
RE: @R_Contributors@hachyderm.io
Apply for a place at R Dev Day @ useR! 2026 by this Friday, April 24!
R version 4.5.2 "[Not] Part in a Rumble" (source version) has been released. You can find it in cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/, or wait for CRAN to be updated.
New #RStats blog entry from Tomas Kalibera: Debugging Sensitivity to C math library and mingw-w64 v12.
C math library functions, such as exp or sin, are not guaranteed to be “precise”. The results might be slightly different on different platforms. This post presents a tool "mdebug" which allows package authors to debug any potential issues with C math functions in their package.
https://blog.r-project.org/2026/01/06/debugging-sensitivity-to-c-math-library-and-mingw-w64-v12/
New #RStats blog entry from Heather Turner: RSMF: Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R.
https://blog.r-project.org/2025/12/17/rsmf-enabling-the-next-generation-of-contributors-to-r/
New on The R Blog from Tomas Kalibera: Reducing the Backlog of Open Bug Reports
https://blog.r-project.org/2025/10/13/reducing-the-backlog-of-open-bug-reports/
📢 R Dev Day @ RencontresR 2026
🏢 Nantes University / Remote
📅 Fri 19 June, 9am - 5pm UTC+2
Registration deadline: Friday 29 May
https://pretix.eu/r-contributors/r-dev-day-rr2026/
Attend this free event to collaborate on contributions to #RStats.
R version 4.5.1 "Great Square Root" (source version) has been released. (You can find it in cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/, or wait for CRAN to be updated.)
