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Julian During Jan 23, 2025

What a nice article to remember Friedrich “Fritz” Leisch, one of the unsung heroes of #RStats: https://journal.r-project.org/articles/RJ-2024-001/. Didn't know anything about his work until #user2024. Much more impressed about all of his contributions to the language and the tools surrounding it.

Remembering Friedrich "Fritz" Leisch

This article remembers our friend and colleague Fritz Leisch (1968--2024) who sadly died earlier this year. Many of the readers of The R Journal will know Fritz as a member of the R Core Team and for many of his contributions to the R community. For us, the co-authors of this article, he was an important companion on our journey with the R project and other scientific endeavours over the years. In the following, we provide a brief synopsis of his career, present his key contributions to the R project and to the scientific community more generally, acknowledge his academic service, and highlight his teaching and mentoring achievements.

The R Journal

Lluís Revilla Jan 10, 2025

Finally the efforts of the #useR2024 dev day landed R-devel!! Some improvements on Rd2HTML mainly for #rstats accessibility.

@eliocamp created the patch while I was identifying the issues. There are still some issues that can be improved as explained & discussed on the (now closed) issue https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18825
Diff: https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/commit/447675cf8d24ebf96ef3f021116df05f686e4f3f

18825 – Improve tools::pkg2HTML accessibility

Lluís Revilla Jan 3, 2025

Happy new year! I'm trying to recall some details of the talk by Kurt Hornik on #useR2024. I found the slides, but would like to hear what was said about a specific topic. Although many of the conference content is on the Youtube account https://www.youtube.com/@useRConference_global, I haven't found that talk (event if it was a keynote). Does anyone know if it was recorded and if it will be shared? I wanted to confirm about some CRAN policies/practices before asking directly/publicly on a #rstats mailing list.

Before you continue to YouTube

Kelly Bodwin Aug 10, 2024

My Keynote talk "Keep R Weird" from #user2024 is now on YouTube!

https://youtu.be/KOQBfC1WPwM?si=zUR7uo6OTKrrdkcW

Thank you so much, @useR_conf for having me - it was truly a special conference and a joy to learn new things about #rstats alongside my fellow weiRdos.

#keepRweird

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Kelly Bodwin Aug 4, 2024

☑️ #SDSS2024 in Richmond
☑️ #user2024 in Austria
☑️ Get married
🔲 #jsm2024 in Portland (on my way!)
🔲 #PositConf2024 in Seattle (woo!)

Hype level: High
Exhaustion level: Also high

Let's do this thing.

Lluís Revilla Jul 29, 2024

I wrote a blog post about my experience at #useR2024 : https://llrs.dev/post/2024/07/28/the-missing-r-generation/
I focus on the ambient and my purpose of going there and not the content.

Comment here and explain your experience!

The missing R generation | B101nfo

Sunday I was a bit down before going to Salzburg, as I was considering if spending my monthly salary in a week for useR!2 024 was worth it. While I was looking to some talks and content I was mainly interested in meeting people.

B101nfo

useR! 2026 Conference Jul 27, 2024

This survey is open to anyone that attended either the virtual event (2 July), or the in-person event (8-11 July), or wishes to provide feedback on why they did not attend useR! 2024.

https://rfoundation.limequery.com/153438

#RStats #useR2024 #DataScience #Coding #diversity

useR! 2024 Survey

namarkus Jul 25, 2024

But why @useR_conf? #useR2024 #hexsticker

R-Ladies Global Jul 23, 2024

Thrilled to see so many new and returning #rstats #rladies contributors to R source code! 🤩

Thanks to the R Contribution Working Group for bringing together members of R Core and community members for an R Dev Day at the conclusion of #user2024! 🤗 🙌

Learn more and get involved!
✨ https://contributor.r-project.org/r-dev-day-plus-2024/
✨ https://contributor.r-project.org/working-group
✨https://www.dicook.org/posts/2024-07-14-r-devel/