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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New post by Šimon Urbánek and the late Tomáš Kalibera on new features for binary R packages #rstats 📦️ blog.r-project.org/2026/09/29/s...

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Sovereign Tech Fund Project: Milestone 2 - The R Blog

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Peter Dalgaard @pdalgd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#rstats 4.6.2 "Diversified Portfolio" scheduled for October 29. Full schedule on developer.r-project.org (or the svn if you're impatient.)

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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 24/09/2026

The Zulip is intended for chat amongst the community of people who want to actively engage in contributing to The R Project, rather than a forum for anonymous browsing. Separately, we plan (next year) to set up an R Project Discourse that would be an open system, more akin to the mailing lists.

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New blog post by Vincent Goulet & Kurt Hornik: Nifty new features for tangling and weaving Sweave documents in base #rstats blog.r-project.org/2026/09/18/n...

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New Tricks for the R Sweave Drivers - The R Blog

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We invite #RStats users to contribute to a fund dedicated to helping the family of Tomáš Kalibera following his untimely death in April. Find out more and donate here: www.r-project.org/foundation/k...

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R: Tomáš Kalibera Family Fund

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Achim Zeileis @zeileis.org · 27/07/2026

CRAN submissions are back online! #rstats The certificates had been revoked on Friday at rather short notice. Submit your 📦️ before CRAN goes on vacation August 5-19. xmpalantir.wu.ac.at/cransubmit/i...

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CRAN package Submission

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Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · 21/06/2026

BBC article about Brian Ripley of the #RStats Core team given this week's excellent news concerning 2026 Rousseeuw Price for Statistics recognition for him and the core team. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Prof Brian Ripley on developing R to manage the world's data

Prof Brian Ripley has spent the past three decades working on a computer software that analyses data.

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Peter Dalgaard @pdalgd.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

R version 4.6.1 "Happy Hop" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now (update of manuals pending). #rstats

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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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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

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: blog.r-project.org/2026/06/02/s... #RStats

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Sovereign Tech Fund Project: Milestone 1 - The R Blog

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

We are pleased to announce that Mikael Jagan has joined the R Core Team. #RStats He has been an active contributor to the R project for several years, proposing bug fixes and enhancements. Further, he has been co-authoring/maintaining the important Matrix package and more recently lme4 and glmmTMB.

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R Contributors @r-contributors.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@R_Contributors/116322… ⏰ Applications close this Friday, May 8 (midnight Anywhere on Earth) ✨ Travel funding available ✨

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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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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Simon Urbanek of #rstats is one of the many deserving new ASA Fellows. Congratulations! 🎉

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Peter Dalgaard @pdalgd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

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.

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Apply for a place at R Dev Day @ useR! 2026 by this Friday, April 24!

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useR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

✨ The useR! 2026 Diversity Scholarship is open! We provide financial support to underrepresented groups in the #RStats community. We offer: 🎫 Registration waivers ✈️ Full needs-based grants (travel/lodging) ⏳ Apply by May 10! Find links in the comment below!

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing on 1 April of Tomáš Kalibera, a valuable member of the R Core Team for close to 10 years, after a short but aggressive illness. Tomáš is survived by his wife and 1 year old son. A full obituary will be posted in due time.

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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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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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Peter Dalgaard @pdalgd.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

R version 4.5.3 "Reassured Reassurer" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now. #rstats

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Opening for a tenure track position in statistical computing: wirtschaftsuniversitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com/Assistant-Pr... 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!

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Job opportunity Assistant Professor, tenure track, qualification agreement at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Jobportal

others in Wien

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Peter Dalgaard @pdalgd.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

#rstats 4.5.3 "Reassured Reassurer" scheduled for March 11. Full schedule on developer.r-project.org (or the svn if you're impatient.) This should be the wrap-up release for the 4.5 series.

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useR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

📣 The useR! 2026 committee invites global R users and developers to submit abstracts for talks, panels, posters, and tutorials! Submissions are peer-reviewed based on content and balance. You're welcome to apply! Find more at: user2026.r-project.org/call/ #useR2026 #DataScience #Poland #Warsaw

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Thanks to everyone that replied to this, we submitted our response last week: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet.... You can view all responses, including several from other foundations supporting OSS projects (full comments are often in a download).

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European Commission - Have your say

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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 02/02/2026

📣 registration for the rainbowR conference is now live 🎉 The conference is for anyone interested in R and/or analysing data to understand LGBTQ+ issues. The majority of speakers and workshop leaders are LGBTQ+, but you do not have to be LGBTQ+ to attend. pretix.eu/rainbowr/con... #RStats #LGBTQ

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rainbowR Conference 2026

Feb. 25 – 26, 2026

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

New #RStats blog post from Tomas Kalibera: Debugging Sensitivity to C math library on Linux. Following on from the previous blog entry, this post introduces the mfuzz tool which can be used on Linux to empirically calibrate the tolerance of numerical tests. blog.r-project.org/2026/01/30/d...

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Debugging Sensitivity to C math library on Linux - The R Blog

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

We are responding to this call for evidence: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... 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!

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European Commission - Have your say

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

📢 R Dev Day @ RencontresR 2026 🏢 Nantes University / Remote 📅 Fri 19 June, 9am - 5pm UTC+2 Registration deadline: Friday 29 May pretix.eu/r-contributo... Attend this free event to collaborate on contributions to #RStats. #RDevDay #RSEng

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

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... blog.r-project.org/2026/01/06/d...

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Debugging Sensitivity to C math library and mingw-w64 v12 - The R Blog

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

The R Foundation is happy to be a partner on the project "Enabling the next generation of R contributors" awarded £500k under the Research Software Maintenance Fund (Software Sustainability Institute, UK). Announcement: www.software.ac.uk/ssi-awards-f... Congratulations to the project team!

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SSI awards funding to 13 projects through the RSMF Round 1 | Software Sustainability Institute

We are pleased to announce that the Research Software Maintenance Fund (RSMF) has funded 13 projects to advance the sustainability and impact of research software. Through this initiative, the SSI, wi...

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

#rstats It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week. He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly. www.john-fox.ca

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John Fox: Books and Software

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Peter Dalgaard @pdalgd.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

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.)

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Achim Zeileis @zeileis.org · 22/10/2025

🚨 New CRAN Task View: Anomaly Detection #rstats #anomalydetection By Priyanga Dilini Talagala, Rob J. Hyndman @robjhyndman.com, Gaetano Romano URL: cran.r-project.org/view=Anomaly...

Screenshot of the CRAN Task View "Anomaly Detection" at https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=AnomalyDetection

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

New on The R Blog from Tomas Kalibera: Reducing the Backlog of Open Bug Reports blog.r-project.org/2025/10/13/r... #RStats

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Reducing the Backlog of Open Bug Reports - The R Blog

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useR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Support Open-Source Data Science-Sponsor UseR! 2026 Join us in Warsaw 6–9 July 2026 at the premier event for R. As a sponsor, you help power an inclusive, high-impact event while reaching thousands of researchers, developers, and educators. user2026.r-project.org/about/sponso... #RStats #useR2026

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

New #RStats blog by Tomas Kalibera showing the impact of the recent investment by @sovereign.tech in the R project: Reducing the Backlog of Open Bug Reports blog.r-project.org/2025/10/13/r...

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Reducing the Backlog of Open Bug Reports - The R Blog

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

📢 R Dev Day @ New Zealand 2025 🏢 Auckland University 🌐 Remote, Americas / Asia-Pacific 📅 Tue 16 - Wed 17 Dec Registration deadline: Sunday 7 Dec pretix.eu/r-contributo... Attend this free event to collaborate on contributions to #RStats. #RDevDay #RSEng

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R Dev Day @ New Zealand 2025

Dec. 16th – 17th, 2025

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

**Just 2 in-person tickets left, a wait list is available!** 📢 R Dev Day @ Australia 🏢 Monash University, Melbourne 🌐 Remote, Australia 📅 Fri 21 Nov Registration deadline: Sun 16 Nov pretix.eu/r-contributo... Attend this free event to collaborate on contributions to #RStats. #RDevDay #RSEng

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R Dev Day @ Australia 2025

Fri, Nov. 21st, 2025

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Peter Dalgaard @pdalgd.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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.)

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useR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Early Bird for useR! 2025 is open until April 30th! Join this gathering of leaders in industry, academia, and the government to network while you increase your expertise in #R. useR! will be held from August 8th to August 10th at Duke University. Conference page: user2025.r-project.org #rstats

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Peter Dalgaard @pdalgd.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

R version 4.5.0 "How About a Twenty-Six" (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.)

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

📢 R Dev Day @ RSECon25 🏢Warwick University, UK 📅 Fri 12 Sep Apply to attend this free event, to collaborate on contributions to #RStats. ✨Travel funding available for participants from UK, Europe & Global South✨ Deadline Wed 23 Apr: warwick.ac.uk/statistics/n... #RSECon25 #RDevDay #RSEng

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R Dev Day @ RSE Con25

Details and application form for a satellite event to RSECon25, gathering R developers for a day of working collaboratively on contributions to R, hosted at the University of Warwick, Friday 12 Septem...

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Apply to participate in R Dev Day @ useR! 2025, deadline Tuesday 15 April: user2025.r-project.org/additional/r... - registration at useR! 2025 is separate and not required. #RStats #RDevDay

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Peter Dalgaard @pdalgd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

R version 4.4.3 "Trophy Case" (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.) This coincides with as-close-as-we-can-get-to 25 years since the release of R 1.0.0. #rstats

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useR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

UseR! 2025 Call for Proposals is now open! We invite R users and developers from around our region and the world to submit abstracts for useR! 2025. Deadline: Monday 3rd March 2025 useR! will be held from August 8th to 10th at Duke University in Durham, NC, USA. user2025.r-project.org/call #RStats

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Call for Submissions – useR! 2025

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

New #RStats blog post by Tomas Kalibera: Alternative toolchains on Windows. blog.r-project.org/2025/01/28/a...

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Alternative toolchains on Windows - The R Blog

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