The R Consortium, Inc. is a group organized under an open source governance and foundation model to support the worldwide community of users, maintainers and developers of R software. Its members include leading institutions and companies dedicated to the use, development and growth of R.
The R language is an open source environment for statistical computing and graphics. The R community has enjoyed significant growth, with more than 2 million users worldwide. A broad range of organizations have adopted the R language as a data science platform, including biotech, finance, research and high technology industries. The R language is often integrated into third-party analysis, visualization and reporting applications, and runs on a wide variety of computing platforms.
The R Consortium’s mission is to promote the R language and to develop the technical and social infrastructure required to support the R ecosystem and the R Community. Its activities and programs include:
Promoting the growth and development of R as a leading platform for data science and statistical computing. Members of the R Consortium are recognized as supporters of the R Project and the R community, and the R Consortium represents its members to the R community and to the media. Supporting and collaborating with the R Foundation, the governing body of the R Project.
The R Foundation maintains a permanent seat on the board of the R Consortium, as an open communication channel for R Consortium members.
Funding projects to enhance R and support its users.
Projects are proposed by the R community at large, and selected for funding by the Infrastructure Steering Committee. R Consortium members nominate the selection committee and provide funds for project grants with their membership dues. (Here is a list of projects funded by the R Consortium to date.)
Fostering the continued growth of R community and the data science ecosystem.
The R Consortium sponsors R-related conferences (including useR!), meetings (including SatRDays and RLadies), and local user groups worldwide.
Enabling the use of R in commercial environments, and fostering collaboration between companies investing in R.
R Consortium committees are developing programs for R language certification and training, consulting, and employment.
The mission of the R Consortium is formally defined in the R Consortium bylaws (PDF) and the Infrastructure Steering Committee charter.
Main Site (this site): https://www.r-consortium.org/
Join: https://www.r-consortium.org/about/join
Blog: https://www.r-consortium.org/news/blog
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/r-consortium/
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rconsortium.bsky.social
Fosstodon: https://fosstodon.org/@RConsortium
This website is built members of the R Consortium, and a wide range of contributors and helpers include R-Ladies Gaborone and other volunteers. There are many blog posts from R Consortium ISC technology projects, helping to build R infrastructure. And many from R User Groups around the world learning R, promoting R, making connections to local industry, and much more. There are also many R experts and enthusiasts giving webinars and sharing their expertise. And multiple annual events, including R+AI, R/Medicine, Risk and userR!, that are directly hosted or sponsored by the R Consortium.
Thank you to all our contrubitors and volunteers!
If you want to help contribute to the site, please use the following workflow.
Pull down the fork locally, make a branch and edit your branch locally.
To preview the website locally and your new edits:
quarto previewEnsure you are in the root directory of the Quarto project where the _quarto.yml file is located.
Note: This website uses Quarto's freeze feature to optimize rendering performance. The freeze feature caches computational results and only re-renders posts when their content has changed. This prevents unnecessary re-rendering of all 250+ posts when only one post is modified, making it much faster to contribute to the website. However, the first time you render the site locally, you will be rendering a large group of files. This is normal.
The freeze cache is stored in the _freeze/ directory and should be committed to version control to ensure consistency across different environments.
Make your changes locally, save them and commit them. Please make your commit message descriptive of the work you did.
Push up to your own forked repo. Then do a pull request to the R Consortium website repo. We will review your Pull Request!
If you need to install Quarto locally, please see: https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/
Install R using sudo apt-get install r-base and sudo apt-get install r-base-dev
Install R packages on Linux; type R in console and then install.packages('rmarkdown')
GGPLOT2 installation: install.packages("ggplot2")
dygraphs installation : install.packages("dygraphs")
The .gitignore of this project is setup to ignore _site/, .quarto/ and docs
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_site/is also known asdocs/in other quarto projects -
_sitewas specified as netlify publish directory on the website -
docs/
Make sure you have RStudio installed. The RStudio IDE is still called "RStudio." The company has changed its name to Posit. Posit is an R Consortium Platinum member.
Fork this Github public repo to your own GitHub account. Then pull it down to your local machine.
Open the rconsortium_website project in RStudio (File → Open Project). Ensure that you’ve switched to a new branch. git checkout -b name_new_branch
Install renv with install.packages(“renv”) in console
Run renv::restore() in console
Open a file for testing. Make edits to the file and run render in RStudio to view the updates.
Once finished with editing, run git add, git commit, and git push to your fork on GitHub.
Make a Pull Request!
A reviewer will test your Pull Request and get back to you within just a couple of days.
If you’re using VS Code, start R.
Install R languageserver when prompted.
Install packages for R extension on VS Code.
Run install.packages("renv") and renv::restore() in the terminal.
Make edits to a file and run quarto render and quarto preview to see the changes.