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Henrik Bengtsson

@henrikbengtsson.bsky.social
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CS/Math Stat/UCSF Assoc Prof R Foundation/R Consortium futureverse.org, mastodon.social/@henrikbengtsson #RStats

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Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Starts in 30 mins... (lobby access in 15 min) FYI, you can hop on to this presentation that with very short notice. You have to register, but that's automatic and instant. Enter your email, look for the Zoom confirmation email, confirm, click Zoom link to join. #RStats
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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TOMORROW! 📣 Sustaining R: Investing in the People, Infrastructure, and Community Behind R Join Simon Urbanek, Kurt Hornik & Heather Turner to discuss R’s future. Oct 6 | 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET / 8 PM London Register: r-consortium.org/webinars/sus... #rstats #opensource
Sustaining R panel discussion
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Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh, great. TIL #RStats sprintf("%03s", x) differ on macOS and Linux; Linux: > sprintf("x=%02s", c("1", "2", "a")) [1] "x= 1" "x= 2" "x= a" macOS: > sprintf("x=%02s", c("1", "2", "a")) [1] "x=01" "x=02" "x=0a" Personally, I'd argue padding strings with zeros should not be an error. Oh well...
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Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
UPDATE: The CRAN submission system and the win-builder are up and running again. Packages are now flowing onto CRAN again. My R.matlab submission that got stuck in the inspection queue yday was re-checked automatically today and I just got an email say package "is on its way to CRAN" #RStats
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Yani Bellini Saibene @yabellini.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
📣 @carpentries.carpentries.org Board is looking for 4 new community-elected members! I’m currently on the Board and happy to answer questions! More info: carpentries.org/blog/2026/09... ✍️ Self-nominate: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... ⏰ Deadline: 9 Oct 2026, AoE
carpentries.org
Nominate Yourself to Join The Carpentries Board of Directors
Carpentries leaders are needed! Do you have: A desire to join Carpentries leaders from around the world in shaping the future of The Carpentries and assuring our continued success? A desire to expand ...
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Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Heads up. Don't submit to CRAN right now. The CRAN submission system is currently broken, because Windows checks won't complete. If you submit your package will end up in the manual "inspection" queue. You'll see the same on win-builder R devel and R 4.6.1. The R 4.5.3 still works. #RStats
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R Works @rworks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The CRAN Top 40 is a monthly attempt to sort through the new packages submitted to CRAN and find 40 quality packages that demonstrate the #RStats language and appeal to a wide audience of potential users. We hope you find something interesting and maybe even useful. rworks.dev/posts/august...
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August 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages – R Works
The CRAN Top 40 is an attempt to sort through the massive amount of new packages submitted to CRAN every month and find forty, quality packages that demonstrate the broad use of the R language, and ap...
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Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you're using future::availableCores(), please replace it with identical parallelly::availableCores() instead 🙏(to warnings) I'm cleaning up the future API: availableCores(), availableWorkers(), makeClusterPSOCK() & supportsMulticore() moved to parallelly in 2020 #RStats #parallel #futureverse
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Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The rcheology website (hughjonesd.shinyapps.io/rcheology/), for looking up the history of #RStats functions and see how they've evolved over time, got some nice UX improvements recently. It's an invaluable tool if you want to know if your code is backward compatible w/ older R versions It's a gem!
Screenshot of the rcheology web app ([https://hughjonesd.shinyapps.io/rcheology/](https://hughjonesd.shinyapps.io/rcheology/)) where we have looked up information for the base::anyNA(x, recursive = FALSE), which was introduced in R 3.6.3 and compares it to what is in R 4.7.0 · r-devel.
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Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The is cool: "The Emscripten-forge #NumPy package now links #OpenBLAS in #WebAssembly"/#WASM This was made possible thanks to @gws.phd's work on #WebR (webr.sh) where he successfully managed to port the Fortran toolchain, which #RStats relies heavily on, to #WASM notebook.link/blog/the-las...
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The last mile of a long road: faster NumPy in the browser | Notebook.link
NumPy on Emscripten-forge now links OpenBLAS in WebAssembly, with large speedups for matmul and linear algebra in the browser.
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Compute! Paris @computeparis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Meet "future", one of the top 0.6% of R packages and the go-to solution for scaling R with parallel tasks, from laptops to HPC. At Compute! Paris, Henrik Bengtsson (its creator and maintainer since 2015) will show how to simplify its API using R’s metaprogramming and transpilation.
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Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wow, hats off: Updated po/pot files and merged the translations from the R Translation Team, with the patch generated by Gergely Daroczi. Includes a major contribution of over 4000 Arabic translations from Abdulrahman Alswaji. github.com/r-devel/r-sv... translate.rx.studio/projects/r-p... #RStats
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The R Project for Statistical Computing
The R Project for Statistical Computing is being translated into 30 languages using Weblate. Join the translation.
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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Episode 239 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🎨 Creativity matters @nrennie.bsky.social 🏎️ {futurize} Transpilers @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social 🪄 Tricky parts of async magic @albertrapp.bsky.social A solo episode, but "the" MCP gave a boost 🤖 #rstats #databs
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Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We need retries (e.g. ntry()) in different scenario, but at the same time it can be scary. We certainly don't want to keep retrying forever, or retry when we kill the machine => we need a retry policy conditioned on type of error/failure See mastodon.social/@henrikbengt... #RStats
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Henrik Bengtsson (@henrikbengtsson@mastodon.social)
@bioinfhotep@genomic.social @Psy_Fer_@genomic.social @rmflight We need retries (e.g. ntry()) in different scenario, but at the same time it can be scary. We certainly don't want to keep retrying for...
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Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Memory management is tricky. The Futureverse Resource Project (www. futureverse.org/roadmap/resources.html) is a proposal for addressing some of it. On Unix, if the out-of-memory (OOM) killer kicks in, it's game over... See #RStats🧵 mastodon.social/@henrikbengt... for a discussion
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Resource Specification Project – Futureverse
Declare what your code needs, so R can check it before the work starts
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Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Ever run a data analysis for hours only to find it ran out of memory? Then lost hours to troubleshooting & retries? Wastes both your time and compute (GPU & RAM prices are skyrocketing). The Futureverse Resource Specification Project aims to lower such waste. 🧵 #RStats #parallel
A macOS-style alert dialog with an R application icon marked by a red exclamation badge. The heading reads 'Out of memory' and the message below reads 'R cannot allocate a vector of size 7.5 GiB.' A blue OK button sits at the bottom.
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Bioconductor @bioconductor.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
🌟 Bioconductor 2026 CAB & TAB nominations are open! Join our advisory boards to support community growth or guide technical strategy. 📅 Apply by Aug 31 CAB: forms.gle/qXwPqEzPET45... TAB: forms.gle/MLYBYDgdbU1C... #Bioconductor #RStats
Bioconductor nominations graphic with CAB and TAB illustrations and www.bioconductor.org
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Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
🚀 Want to run boot() in #parallel? Use b <- boot(city, ratio, R = 1000) |> futurize() from the futurize package #rstats futurize.futurever.se
The 'futurize' hexlogo - Magic Touch ParallelizationThe CRAN logo with text 'boot' below
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Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
🚀 Want to run plyr::llply() in #parallel? Use y <- llply(x, fcn) |> futurize() from the futurize package #rstats futurize.futurever.se
The 'futurize' hexlogo - Magic Touch ParallelizationThe CRAN logo with text 'plyr' below
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Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
🚀 Want to run foreach() in #parallel? Use y <- foreach(z = x) %do% { fcn(z) } |> futurize() from the futurize package #rstats futurize.futurever.se
The 'futurize' hexlogo - Magic Touch ParallelizationThe CRAN logo with text 'foreach' below
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Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
🚀 Want to run purrr::map() in #parallel? Use y <- map(x, fcn) |> futurize() from the futurize package #rstats futurize.futurever.se
The 'futurize' hexlogo - Magic Touch ParallelizationThe 'purrr' hexlogo - a curled up cat
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Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
🚀 Want to run lapply() in #parallel? Use y <- lapply(x, fcn) |> futurize() from the futurize package #rstats futurize.futurever.se
The 'futurize' hexlogo - Magic Touch Parallelization
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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026
rousseeuwprize.org
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics is a biennial prize to celebrate outstanding contributions to statistics research.
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useR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
R for eaRth: Data Visualisation and Exploration Challenge at UseR! 2026 Aimed at improving the precision of methane emission estimation based on spectral data from the Sentinel-2 satellite. More info at github.com/CredibleAI/R... Ticket sales end on the 12th! user2026.r-project.org #RStats
Promotional graphic for the useR! 2026 Conference in Warsaw. Black background with white bold text in the top left reading "useR! 2026 CONFERENCE WARSAW," followed by bold orange text reading "Submissions open!" The top right features the conference's signature 2×2 grid of colored squares (blue, yellow, orange, purple), each containing a recursive square fractal pattern. Centered yellow bold text reads: "R for eaRth: Data Visualisation and Exploration Challenge" — with the R in "eaRth" capitalized to highlight the R programming language. In the bottom left is a pixelated/8-bit style illustration of Earth, showing green continents and blue oceans.
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Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
#RStats challenge and potential community project: * Create a minimal package 'dumpsterfire' that triggers as many 'R CMD check' issues as possible! Fun, but could also become a excellent resource for illustrating and understanding package check issues Here's a start: github.com/HenrikBengts...
Screenshot of the README on the package GitHub repository. The title of the README is "dumpsterfire - A Minimal R Package With Tons of Issues 🔥".
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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
John Fox (1947-2025) An obituary of R Foundation member John Fox by Peter Dalgaard. www.r-project.org/doc/obit/joh... #rstats
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R: John David Fox (1947-2025)
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useR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Register before the 12th to join us in this gathering! useR! 2026 is in Warsaw but the team is from everywhere, and we want to start by thanking our leadership Przemyslaw Biecek of University of Warsaw, and Dr. Heidi Seibold of Digital Research Academy. They have been super! user2026.r-project.org
Promotional graphic for the useR! 2026 Conference in Warsaw. Black background with white bold text in the top left reading "useR! 2026 CONFERENCE WARSAW." Top right features a 2x2 grid of colored squares (blue, yellow, orange, purple), each containing a recursive square fractal pattern. Centered yellow text reads: "Registration ends on the 12th, thank you to everyone joining us!" Below the text is a heart shape filled with the Polish flag — white on top, red on bottom.
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Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Used #LibreOffice for a decade on #Ubuntu #Linux but never really liked the teeny GUI fonts & icons. #TIL that in addition to: sudo apt install libreoffice-writer installing: sudo apt install libreoffice-gtk3 makes wonders! It also respects your dark-mode settings.
Screenshot of LibreOffice Writer window, which shows a GUI with teeny font-sizes in the menu and small icons.Screenshot of LibreOffice Writer window, which shows a GUI with large font-sizes in the menu and small icons. The font-sizes and light mode in the OS settings are respected.Screenshot of LibreOffice Writer window, which shows a GUI with large font-sizes in the menu and small icons. The font-sizes and dark mode in the OS settings are respected.
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Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Is there a metric that describes how easy-to-hard it is to find, access, and discuss institutional knowledge and documentation on an intranet relative to what's publicly available on the web? #FOSS forever <3
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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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": blog.r-project.org/2026/05/05/s...
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S at 50 - The R Blog
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useR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
🏳️‍🌈 Help us make #useR2026 inclusive for everyone! 🇵🇱 We’re looking for volunteers to join our DEIA Team in Warsaw! 🤝 🎁 All organizing team members get a FREE conference ticket! 📩 Join us: useR2026@r-project.org #rstats #RStatsES #RStatsFR #DEIA #OpenScience
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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
R/Medicine 2026 is next week! Register now! Just one of the great lineup of workshops and demos: "You Should Probably Map That: Introduction to Geospatial Analysis in R" Anjile An, Weill Cornell Medical College rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #clinicaltrials #geospatial
Example of great demo at R/Medicine 2026 - "Mapping in R"
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R User Community @r-user-community.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
🇫🇷 Paris is calling! The Call for Proposals for Compute! Paris is now open. Join the international tech community to discuss high-performance #computing and #datascience. 🗼💻 CFP Deadline: May 24, 2026. Conference Dates: Nov 25 & 26, 2026. Submit your talk: compute.events/paris2026 #rstats #coding
compute.events
Compute! Paris 2026
Understanding your tools and algorithms is what gives you agency in a digital world. Paris, November 25–26, 2026.
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R User Community @r-user-community.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
📢 Final Call!! Early Bird tickets for useR! 2026 in #Warsaw are still on sale until tomorrow! Join the global #RStats community from July 6–9 for inspiring talks and hands‑on workshops. ⏳ Early Bird ends 29th April — don’t miss out! 🔗 user2026.r-project.org/register.html #DataScience #OpenSource
A vertical, vintage-style travel poster for the useR! 2026 Conference.

The illustration features a stylized bird in flight at the top left, soaring toward a large, orange circular emblem containing a white letter "R" that mimics a rising sun with radiating rays. Below the sun is a minimalist, mid-century modern cityscape of Warsaw, rendered in black, white, and orange, featuring historic silhouettes and a bridge over a river.

The text is presented in a bold, sans-serif font:

Top: "EARLY BIRD TICKETS!"

Middle: "useR! 2026 CONFERENCE"

Bottom: A decorative banner reads "useR! 2026 CONFERENCE | WARSAW • JULY 2026"
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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 28/04/2026
🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Weds Apr 29th, 3:30pm UTC 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 - ask questions about R 🙋 ➡️ Registration & different timezomes via rainbowr.org/meetups
event flyer, same info as in post text

rainbow-striped background with rainbowR logo and dark text box with rainbow colored text:

rainbowR
EMEA / AMER meet-up
Weds Apr 29th, 3:30pm UTC

- connect with community members
- rainbowR updates
- R chat and informal ‘show and tell’

More info and sign-up details at
rainbowr.org/meetups
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R User Community @r-user-community.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
R User Community is on Luma Looking for your next #RStats event? The R User Community hub on Luma is the go-to spot for global meetups, webinars, and workshops. 📅✨ #rstats Bookmark the calendar: lu.ma/r_user_community
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R User Community · Events Calendar
View and subscribe to events from R User Community on Luma.
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R User Community @r-user-community.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
EdinbR's April 2026 Meetup: Fake data and R projects * Date: Thursday 30 April 2026, 6.00PM - 7.00PM * Title: Fake data and R projects * Speakers: Mike Spencer and Claire Hayman * Venue: Old College, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, GB luma.com/1fwantbx #rstats #edinburgh #datascience #opensource
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"Fake Data and R Projects" - EdinbR's April 2026 meetup · Luma
Details Title: April 2026: Fake data and R projects Speakers: Mike Spencer and Claire Hayman * Date: Thursday 30 April 2026, 6.00PM - 7.00PM * Location:…
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Marcin Kierczak @marcinki.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🌊 Level up your R skills in Visby, Aug 10–20! 🏰 #RaukR Data Science with R Summer School. Instructors including jennybryan.bsky.social & cderv.bsky.social. Join ~300 happy alumni! Registration deadline soon! raukr.nbis.se #RStats #Bioinformatics #RaukR #DataScience #SciLifeLab nbis.se #NBIS
Pixelated Visby, students discussing R, some R workflows visualised.
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useR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
🚀 Early bird tickets for useR! 2026 are live until April 20! Join the global R community in Warsaw, hosted by SGH Warsaw School of Economics, University of Warsaw & Warsaw University of Technology. 📅 July 6–9, 2026 • Talks, workshops, networking. Link in first comment 👇
Retro-style poster announcing early registration for useR! 2026. A red, white, and blue bird flies toward a glowing sun with the R logo. A banner reads “useR! 2026 Conference – Warsaw • July 2026,” with Warsaw’s skyline and a river bridge illustrated below in bold geometric shapes.
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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
🚀 The R Consortium Technical Grant Cycle is now open! Have an idea to improve R’s technical infrastructure? Apply for funding! 📅 Apply by May 1 📅 Decisions by June 1 r-consortium.org/all-projects... #rstats #opensource #datascience #rconsortium #rcommunity
Image from main submissions form
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Kevin Patrick O'Brien @kobriendublin.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Luma is fairly easy to use. Very impressed External events can be added to the calendar. Very easy to publish calendars - promoting multiple events in one fell swoop. Once a critical mass has been achieved- we can have multiple calendars going #rstats luma.com/r_user_commu...
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R User Community · Events Calendar
View and subscribe to events from R User Community on Luma.
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R Contributors @r-contributors.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026
📢 R Dev Day @ CascadiaR 2026 🏢 Portland State University / Remote 📅 Fri 26 June, 9am - 5pm UTC-7 Registration deadline: Friday 12 June pretix.eu/r-contributors/r-dev-day-… Attend this free event to collaborate on contributions to #RStats. #RDevDay #CascadiaRConf
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R Dev Day @ Cascadia R 2026, Portland / Online
Fri, June 26, 2026
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Josiah @josiah.rs · 27/03/2026
Come to @cascadiarevolting.bsky.social and take my Intro to Rust + Extendr workshop ORRRR contribute to base R your call! I'll only be offended if you don't come! /s #rstats
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Kevin Patrick O'Brien @kobriendublin.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Experimenting with Luma for an R Community Calendar. If anyone is running an event, and wants to take part in this project, please get in touch #rstats luma.com/R_User_Commu...
luma.com
R User Community · Events Calendar
View and subscribe to events from R User Community on Luma.
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useR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
📣 Call for Sponsor #useR2026 in Warsaw! 🇵🇱 Support the premier #Rstats conference (July 6–9) and connect with global data experts. Tiers: 🏆 Platinum (€25k) to 💜 Violet (€1k) + custom options! 🧩 Champion open-source innovation with us. Full details here: 🔗 user2026.r-project.org/about/sponso...
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useR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
🏳️‍🌈 Join the #useR2026 DEIA team! 🇵🇱 We look for volunteers! Support areas include: ⚫ Welcoming atmosphere ⚫ Venue & IT accessibility checks ⚫ Stipend setup ⚫ Code of Conduct response Organizing team members receive a FREE conference ticket! 📩 useR2026@r-project.org 📩 #rstats #RStatsES #RStatsFR
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Joao Pedro Azevedo @jpzvd.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Today I’m pleased to share that the unicefData R package is now available on CRAN, providing direct programmatic access to the UNICEF Data Warehouse. 📦 CRAN cran.r-project.org/package=unicef… #OpenData #OfficialStatistics #RStats #DataForChildren #ReproducibleResearch
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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 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.
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Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
CRANhaven dashboard has been fixed www.cranhaven.org/dashboard-li... #RStats (The lack of updates was due to a new package that showed up on CRAN briefly and then it was *removed* not just archived - that case should now be handled)
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Dashboard: Recently Archived CRAN Packages – CRANhaven
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Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
And here I was thinking we're all living a happy life - turns out we have a bug on our end
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