We present selected changes in the development version of R (referred to as R-devel, to become R 4.4) and provide some statistics on bug tracking activities in 2023.
"Editorial" published in The R Journal.
[Forwards](https://forwards.github.io/) is an R Foundation taskforce working to widen the participation of under-represented groups in the R project and in related activities, such as the *useR!* conference. This report rounds up activities of the taskforce during 2023.
"News from Bioconductor" published in The R Journal.
"Editorial" published in The R Journal.
"R Foundation News" published in The R Journal.
R Project Sprint 2023 was a three-day event at the University of Warwick, UK, that brought together novice and experienced contributors to work alongside members of the R Core Team. 55 members of the R community participated, with external contributors selected to balance technical expertise and provide opportunities for members of historically under-represented groups. Participants worked collaboratively on contributions to base R and on infrastructure supporting contribution. Several small tasks were completed within the duration of the sprint, whilst significant steps were made on larger projects. The event provided a unique opportunity for external contributors to learn about the R development process and to develop their contribution skills.
"R Foundation News" published in The R Journal.
"Editorial" published in The R Journal.
"Editorial" published in The R Journal.
"R Foundation News" published in The R Journal.
"Bioconductor Notes" published in The R Journal.
"Changes on CRAN" published in The R Journal.
"Editorial" published in The R Journal.
"News from the Forwards Taskforce" published in The R Journal.
We present important changes in the development version of R (referred to as R-devel, to become R 4.3). Some statistics on bug tracking activities in 2022 are also provided.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2022-4 issue.
We discuss the release of Bioconductor 3.16, along with educational activities and general project news.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2022-3 issue.
"Editorial" published in The R Journal.
The 'News from the Bioconductor Project' article from the 2022-2 issue.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2022-2 issue.
"Editorial" published in The R Journal.
"News from the Forwards Taskforce" published in The R Journal.
We give a selection of the most important changes in R 4.2.0 and of subsequent bug fixes for the Windows port of R. We also provide statistics on source code commits.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2022-2 issue.
Why R? Turkey 2022 was a non-profit conference that aimed to bring Turkish R users together and encourage them to attend the R conferences. The targeted audience of the conference consisted of, data scientists, data analysts, and all R users from academia and industry. The three-day conference, which consisted of several events such as workshops, regular talks, lightning talks, short tutorials, and panels, was free of charge and fully online. This article describes the challenges and benefits, as well as providing an overview of the conference's content and participants’ profile.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2022-1 issue.
"Editorial" published in The R Journal.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2022-1 issue.
The 'News from the Bioconductor Project' article from the 2021-2 issue.
We present important changes in the development version of R (referred to as R-devel, to become R 4.2) and give a summary of the new search engine interfaced by `RSiteSearch()`. Some statistics on bug tracking activities in 2021 are also provided.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2021-2 issue.
The "Editorial" article from the 2021-2 issue.
The "News from the Forwards Taskforce" article from the 2021-2 issue.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2021-2 issue.
The 'News from the Bioconductor Project' article from the 2021-1 issue.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2021-1 issue.
"Editorial" published in The R Journal.
The 'News from the Forwards Taskforce' article from the 2021-1 issue.
We give a selection of the most important changes in R 4.1.0. Some statistics on source code commits and bug tracking activities are also provided.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2021-1 issue.
The third annual R/Medicine conference was planned as a physical event to be held in Philadelphia at the end of August 2020. However, a nationwide lockdown induced by the COVID-19 pandemic required a swift transition to a virtual conference. This article describes the challenges and benefits we encountered with this transition and provides an overview of the conference content.
The Why R? Turkey 2021 as a three-day online conference was organized to bring together researchers and professionals from Turkey on April 16-17-18, 2021. We hereby aimed to promote the R community in Turkey by bringing R users with different backgrounds such as genetics, sociology, finance, economy, bio-statistics. There were 8 thematic sessions and 18 invited speakers. In this article, it is aimed to describe the preparation phase, technical details, and the impact of the conference on audience.
The 'News from the Bioconductor Project' article from the 2020-2 issue.
We give a selection of the most important changes in R 4.0.0 and in the R 3.6 release series. Some statistics on source code commits and bug tracking activities are also provided.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2020-2 issue.
The 'Editorial' article from the 2020-2 issue.
The 'News from the Forwards Taskforce' article from the 2020-2 issue.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2020-2 issue.
The European R Users Meeting 2020 (e-Rum2020) was a conference that was held virtually in June 2020. Originally, e-Rum2020 had been planned as a physical event to be held in Milano. However, the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the declaration of a nationwide lockdown induced the Organizing Committee to fully rethink the event, and to turn it into a live virtual conference. In this article, we describe the challenges that we encountered during the organization of e-Rum2020, and how we reacted to them. In doing so, we aim to provide future conference organizers with useful information on how to organize a successful virtual conference, and even to turn a physical conference into a virtual meeting on a relatively short notice.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2020-1 issue.
The 'Editorial' article from the 2020-1 issue.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2020-1 issue.
The 'Conference Report: Why R? 2019' article from the 2020-1 issue.
The 'News from the Bioconductor Project' article from the 2019-2 issue.
The 'CHANGES IN R 3.6.2' article from the 2019-2 issue.
The 'Conference Report: ConectaR 2019' article from the 2019-2 issue.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2019-2 issue.
The 'Editorial' article from the 2019-2 issue.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2019-2 issue.
The 'R News' article from the 2019-1 issue.
The "Changes on CRAN" article from the 2019-1 issue.
The 'Editorial' article from the 2019-1 issue.
The "R Foundation News" article from the 2019-1 issue.
The 'News from the Bioconductor Project' article from the 2018-2 issue.
The 'Changes in R' article from the 2018-2 issue.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2018-2 issue.
The 'Editorial' article from the 2018-2 issue.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2018-2 issue.
The 'Conference Report: LatinR 2018' article from the 2018-2 issue.
The 'Conference Report: R / Medicine Report ' article from the 2018-2 issue.
The 'Conference Report: R / Pharma 2018' article from the 2018-2 issue.
The 'Conference Report: SER III' article from the 2018-2 issue.
The 'Conference Report: Why R? 2018' article from the 2018-2 issue.
The 'News from the Bioconductor Project' article from the 2018-1 issue.
The 'Changes in R' article from the 2018-1 issue.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2018-1 issue.
The 'Editorial' article from the 2018-1 issue.
The 'Conference Report: eRum 2018' article from the 2018-1 issue.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2018-1 issue.
The 'R Day report' article from the 2018-1 issue.
The 'News from the Bioconductor Project' article from the 2017-2 issue.
The 'Changes in R' article from the 2017-2 issue.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2017-2 issue.
The 'Editorial' article from the 2017-2 issue.
The study presented here is a first attempt to capture the demographics and opinions of the R community, starting with the attendees of the useR! conference 2016. One aim of Forwards, the R Foundation taskforce on women and other under-represented groups, is to identify groups that are under-represented in the R community and to further stimulate ideas and take initiatives for widening their participation. Since R is an open-source software with various platforms for exchange, however, it is difficult to obtain information about its community -- let alone define this community in the first place. As a starting point, a survey was conducted with the attendees of the useR! conference 2016 to document their sociodemographic and computational backgrounds, experiences and opinions. The present paper gives an overview of the results of this first survey. Most of the analysis focuses on women participants, that are generally under-represented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) disciplines, but the results also show a severe under-representation of minorities. A surprising finding concerns a gender difference with regard to the experience with R and the publication of R packages. We investigated possible reasons for this difference by the means of a logistic regression analysis. The self-evident limitations of this first survey are discussed and directions for future research as well as potential means for improvement are outlined.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2017-2 issue.
The 'Conference Report: R in Insurance 2017' article from the 2017-2 issue.
The *revisit* package, developed as a collaborative tool for scientists, also serves as a tool for teaching statistics, in a manner that can be highly motivating for students. Using either the included case studies or datasets/code provided by the instructor, students can explore several alternate paths of analysis, such as the effects of including/excluding certain variables, employing different types of statistical methodology and so on. The package includes features that help students follow modern statistical standards and avoid various statistical errors, such as "p-hacking" and lack of attention to outlier data.
The 'Conference Report: useR!2017' article from the 2017-2 issue.
The 'News from the Bioconductor Project' article from the 2017-1 issue.
The 'Changes in R' article from the 2017-1 issue.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2017-1 issue.
The 'Editorial' article from the 2017-1 issue.
The 'Conference Report: European R Users Meeting 2016' article from the 2017-1 issue.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2017-1 issue.
The 'News from the Bioconductor Project' article from the 2016-2 issue.
The 'Changes in R' article from the 2016-2 issue.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2016-2 issue.
The 'Editorial' article from the 2016-2 issue.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2016-2 issue.
The 'News from the Bioconductor Project' article from the 2016-1 issue.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2016-1 issue.
The 'Editorial' article from the 2016-1 issue.
The 'Changes in R' article from the 2016-1 issue.
The 'Conference Report: useR! 2016' article from the 2016-1 issue.
The 'News from the Bioconductor Project' article from the 2015-2 issue.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2015-2 issue.
The 'Editorial' article from the 2015-2 issue.
The 'Changes in R' article from the 2015-2 issue.
The 'Conference Report: useR! 2015' article from the 2015-2 issue.
The R Consortium was announced at the useR! 2015 conference in Aalborg, Denmark on 30 June. It is a non-profit organization set up to provide infrastructure for the R community. The purpose of this article is to explain some of the background to the setting up of the Consortium and how it interacts with the R Foundation.
The 'News from the Bioconductor Project' article from the 2015-1 issue.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2015-1 issue.
The 'Editorial' article from the 2015-1 issue.
The 'Changes in R' article from the 2015-1 issue.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2015-1 issue.
The 'News from the Bioconductor Project' article from the 2014-2 issue.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2014-2 issue.
The 'Editorial' article from the 2014-2 issue.
The 'Changes in R' article from the 2014-2 issue.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2014-2 issue.
The 'Conference Report: Polish Academic R User Meeting' article from the 2014-2 issue.
The 'Conference Report: R in Insurance 2014' article from the 2014-2 issue.
The 'News from the Bioconductor Project' article from the 2014-1 issue.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2014-1 issue.
The 'Editorial' article from the 2014-1 issue.
The 'Changes in R' article from the 2014-1 issue.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2014-1 issue.
The 'News from the Bioconductor Project' article from the 2013-2 issue.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2013-2 issue.
The 'Editorial' article from the 2013-2 issue.
The 'Changes in R' article from the 2013-2 issue.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2013-2 issue.
The 'Conference Report: Deuxièmes Rencontres R' article from the 2013-2 issue.
The 'News from the Bioconductor Project' article from the 2013-1 issue.
The 'Conference Review: The 6th Chinese R Conference' article from the 2013-1 issue.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2013-1 issue.
The "Editorial" article from the 2013-1 issue.
The 'Changes in R' article from the 2013-1 issue.
The 'Conference Report: R/Finance 2013' article from the 2013-1 issue.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2013-1 issue.
The 'The R User Conference 2013' article from the 2013-1 issue.
The 'News from the Bioconductor Project' article from the 2012-2 issue.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2012-2 issue.
The 'Editorial' article from the 2012-2 issue.
The 'Changes in R' article from the 2012-2 issue.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2012-2 issue.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2012-1 issue.
The 'Editorial' article from the 2012-1 issue.
The 'Changes in R' article from the 2012-1 issue.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2012-1 issue.
"News from the Bioconductor Project" published in The R Journal.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2011-2 issue.
The 'Editorial' article from the 2011-2 issue.
"Forthcoming Events: useR! 2012" published in The R Journal.
This article describes the activity of R in the 2011 Google Summer of Code (GSoC), which Wikipedia describes as follows.\ The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an annual program, first held from May to August 2005, in which Google awards stipends (of 5000 USD, as of 2010) to hundreds of students who successfully complete a requested free or open source software coding project during the summer.
The 'Changes in R' article from the 2011-2 issue.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2011-2 issue.
The 'Conference Report: useR! 2011' article from the 2011-2 issue.
The 'News from the Bioconductor Project' article from the 2011-1 issue.
Book Info : Forest Analytics with R (Use R) by Andrew R. [Robinson]{.smallcaps} and Jeff D. [Hamann]{.smallcaps}. Berlin: Springer, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4419-7761-8. xv + 339 pp. €57.99 (paperback).
With the international R user conference, useR! 2011, approaching, many participants may be contemplating how to put their thoughts together for presentation. This paper provides some suggestions for giving presentations and making posters.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2011-1 issue.
The 'Editorial' article from the 2011-1 issue.
Giving a UseR! talk at the the international R user conference is a balancing act in which you have to try to impart some new ideas, provide sufficient background and keep the audience interested, all in a very short period of time.
The 'Conference Review: Kickoff Workshop for Project MOSAIC' article from the 2011-1 issue.
The 'Conference Review: Third Meeting of Polish R Users, The Influenza Challenge ' article from the 2011-1 issue.
The 'Changes in R' article from the 2011-1 issue.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2011-1 issue.
The 'News from the Bioconductor Project' article from the 2010-2 issue.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2010-2 issue.
The 'Editorial' article from the 2010-2 issue.
"Forthcoming Events: useR! 2011" published in The R Journal.
The 'Changes in R' article from the 2010-2 issue.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2010-2 issue.
A summary of the useR! 2010 conference.
We discuss how news in R and add-on packages can be disseminated. R 2.10.0 has added facilities for computing on news in a common plain text format. In R 2.12.0, the Rd format has been further enhanced so that news can be very conveniently recorded in Rd, allowing for both improved rendering and the development of new news services.
The 'News from the Bioconductor Project' article from the 2010-1 issue.
Book info : Alain F. , Elena N. , and Erik H.W.G. . New York, NY: Springer, 2009. ISBN 978-0-387-93836-3. xv + 218 pp. \$59.95 (P).
The 'Conference Review: The 2nd Chinese R Conference' article from the 2010-1 issue.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2010-1 issue.
The 'Editorial' article from the 2010-1 issue.
The 'Introducing NppToR: R Interaction for Notepad++' article from the 2010-1 issue.
The 'Changes in R 2.10.1--2.11.1' article from the 2010-1 issue.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2010-1 issue.
The 'News from the Bioconductor Project' article from the 2009-2 issue.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2009-2 issue.
The 'Conference Review: DSC 2009' article from the 2009-2 issue.
The 'Editorial' article from the 2009-2 issue.
Version 2.10.0 of R includes new code for processing `.Rd` help files. There are some changes to what is allowed, and some new capabilities and opportunities.
The 'R Changes: 2.9.1-2.10.0 Patched' article from the 2009-2 issue.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2009-2 issue.
The 'News from the Bioconductor Project' article from the 2009-1 issue.
The 'Conference Review: The 1st Chinese R Conference' article from the 2009-1 issue.
The 'Changes on CRAN' article from the 2009-1 issue.
"Forthcoming Events: DSC 2009" published in The R Journal.
The 'Editorial' article from the 2009-1 issue.
The 'Changes in R 2.9.0' article from the 2009-1 issue.
The 'R Foundation News' article from the 2009-1 issue.
The 'Forthcoming Events: Conference on Quantitative Social Science Research Using R' article from the 2009-1 issue.
"News from the Bioconductor Project" published in R News.
"Changes in R Version 2.8.0" published in R News.
"Changes on CRAN" published in R News.
"Editorial" published in R News.
"Forthcoming Events: DSC 2009" published in R News.
"Forthcoming Events: useR! 2009" published in R News.
"R Foundation News" published in R News.
"useR! 2008" published in R News.
"News from the Bioconductor Project" published in R News.
"Changes in R Version 2.7.0" published in R News.
"Changes on CRAN" published in R News.
"Editorial" published in R News.
"Forthcoming Events: useR! 2008" published in R News.
"R Foundation News" published in R News.
"R Help Desk" published in R News.
"R News Referees 2007" published in R News.
"Changes in R 2.6.1" published in R News.
"Changes on CRAN" published in R News.
"Editorial" published in R News.
"News from the Bioconductor Project" published in R News.
"Changes in R 2.6.0" published in R News.
"Changes on CRAN" published in R News.
"Editorial" published in R News.
"Forthcoming Events: R Courses in Munich" published in R News.
"Forthcoming Events: useR! 2008" published in R News.
"R Foundation News" published in R News.
"Past Events: useR! 2007" published in R News.
"Changes in R 2.5.0" published in R News.
"Changes on CRAN" published in R News.
"DSC 2007" published in R News.
"Editorial" published in R News.
"Forthcoming Events: useR! 2007" published in R News.
"R Foundation News" published in R News.
"New Journal: Annals of Applied Statistics" published in R News.
"R News Referees 2006" published in R News.
"Editorial" published in R News.
"News from the Bioconductor Project" published in R News.
"Changes in R" published in R News.
"Changes on CRAN" published in R News.
"Editorial" published in R News.
"R Foundation News" published in R News.
"useR! 2006, The Second R User Conference" published in R News.
"Editorial" published in R News.
"Fitting dose-response curves from bioassays and toxicity testing" published in R News.
"News from the Bioconductor Project" published in R News.
"Changes in R" published in R News.
"Changes on CRAN" published in R News.
"Editorial" published in R News.
"Forthcoming Events: DSC 2007" published in R News.
"R Foundation News" published in R News.
"Resistor networks R: Introducing the ResistorArray package" published in R News.
"The good, the bad, and the ugly—Review of Paul Murrell’s new book: “R Graphics”" published in R News.
"Editorial" published in R News.
"Erratum" published in R News.
"Changes in R" published in R News.
"Changes on CRAN" published in R News.
"Editorial" published in R News.
"Forthcoming Events: useR! 2006" published in R News.
"R Help Desk" published in R News.
"Book Review of Julian J. Faraway: Linear Models with R" published in R News.
"Changes in R" published in R News.
"Changes on CRAN" published in R News.
"Editorial" published in R News.
"Events" published in R News.
"R Foundation News" published in R News.
"Programmer’s Niche" published in R News.
"Changes in R" published in R News.
"Changes on CRAN" published in R News.
"Editorial" published in R News.
"Changes in R" published in R News.
"Changes on CRAN" published in R News.
"Editorial" published in R News.
"R Foundation News" published in R News.
"Programmers’ Niche" published in R News.
"R Help Desk" published in R News.
"useR! 2004" published in R News.
"Changes in R 1.8.1" published in R News.
"Changes on CRAN" published in R News.
"Editorial" published in R News.
"Upcoming Events" published in R News.
"R Foundation News" published in R News.
"Programmer’s Niche" published in R News.
"R Help Desk" published in R News.
"Recent Events" published in R News.
"Book Reviews" published in R News.
"Changes in R 1.8.0" published in R News.
"Correction to “Building Microsoft Windows Versions of R and R packages under Intel Linux”" published in R News.
"Changes on CRAN" published in R News.
"Crossword Solution" published in R News.
"Editorial" published in R News.
"R Foundation News" published in R News.
"R Help Desk" published in R News.
"Recent Events" published in R News.
"Book Reviews" published in R News.
"Changes in R 1.7.0" published in R News.
"Changes on CRAN" published in R News.
"Crossword" published in R News.
"Editorial" published in R News.
"R Help Desk" published in R News.
"Recent Events" published in R News.
"Changes in R" published in R News.
"Changes on CRAN" published in R News.
"Editorial" published in R News.
"gRaphical Models in R" published in R News.
"New Publications" published in R News.
"R Help Desk" published in R News.
"Recent and Upcoming Events" published in R News.
"Sweave, Part I: Mixing R and L" published in R News.
"Changes in R" published in R News.
"Changes on CRAN" published in R News.
"Editorial" published in R News.
"Upcoming Events" published in R News.
"Changes in R 1.4.0" published in R News.
"Changes in R 1.4.1" published in R News.
"Changes on CRAN" published in R News.
"Editorial" published in R News.
"Changes in R" published in R News.
"Changes on CRAN" published in R News.
"Editorial" published in R News.
"Changes in R" published in R News.
"Changes on CRAN" published in R News.
"Editorial" published in R News.
"Programmer’s Niche" published in R News.
"Recent Events" published in R News.
"Spatial Statistics in R" published in R News.
"Changes in R" published in R News.
"Changes on CRAN" published in R News.
"Editorial" published in R News.
"Upcoming Events" published in R News.
"R Resources" published in R News.
"What is R?" published in R News.
"Writing Articles for R News" published in R News.
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