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 #rstats The certificates had been revoked on Friday at rather short notice.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...

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...

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.

bbc.com

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

The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

John Fox (1947-2025) An obituary of R Foundation member John Fox by Peter Dalgaard. www.r-project.org/doc/obit/joh... #rstats

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

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.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@R_Contributors/116322260081951659 ⏰ Applications close this Friday, May 8 (midnight Anywhere on Earth) ✨ Travel funding available ✨

R Contributors@r-contributors.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 4mo ago

📢 R Project Sprint 2026 🏢 University of Birmingham / Remote 📅 Tue 1 - Thu 3 Sept ✨ Travel funding available ✨ Apply by Friday 8 May to join this free event to collaborate on contributions to #RStats. https://contributor.r-project.org/r-project-sprint-2026 #RSprint2026

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...

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

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.

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

R Contributors@r-contributors.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 4mo ago

📢 R Dev Day @ useR! 2026 🏢 Warsaw University of Technology / Remote 📅 Fri 10 July, 9am - 5pm UTC+2 Application deadline: Friday 24 April https://user2026.r-project.org/additional/r-dev-day.html Attend this free event to collaborate on contributions to #RStats. #RDevDay #useR2026

✨ 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!

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.

📢 R Dev Day @ CascadiaR 2026 🏢 Portland State University / Remote 📅 Fri 26 June, 9am - 5pm UTC-7 Registration deadline: Friday 12 June https://pretix.eu/r-contributors/r-dev-day-cascadiar-2026 Attend this free event to collaborate on contributions to #RStats. #RDevDay #CascadiaRConf

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.

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

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!

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

others in Wien

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#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.

📣 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

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).

The R Foundation@r-foundation.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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!

📣 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

rainbowR Conference 2026

Feb. 25 – 26, 2026

pretix.eu

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...

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!

📢 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

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...

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!

#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

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 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...