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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/updates-from-r-consortium.html"> Revolutions</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
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<p>The R Consortium has been quite busy lately, so I thought I'd take a moment to bring you up to speed on some recent news. (Disclosure: Microsoft is a member of the R Consortium, and I am a member of its board of directors.)</p>
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<li>Many <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-consortium.org/blog/2018/04/16/whats-new-with-r-consortium-funded-projects-in-q1-2018" target="_blank">R Consortium funded projects are underway</a>. The &quot;<a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-spatial.org/r/2018/03/01/quantities-first-prototype.html" target="_blank">Quantities for R</a>&quot; project has released its first working prototype, the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-dbi.org/" target="_blank">DBI project</a> for database interfaces to R is near completion, and the second <a rel="nofollow" href="https://capetown2018.satrdays.org/" target="_blank">SatRDays conference</a> was recently held in Cape Town.</li>
<li>A <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-consortium.org/blog/2018/04/12/package-licensing-would-the-r-community-like-some-help-feedback-from-the-trenches" target="_blank">survey of R package developers on licensing</a>, revealed several insights on motivations behind choices on open source licenses.</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-consortium.org/announcement/2018/03/27/r-consortium-welcomes-r-ladies-as-a-top-level-project" target="_blank">R-Ladies has been promoted</a> to a top-level R Consortium project, and project lead Gabriela de Queiroz joins the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-consortium.org/about/governance" target="_blank">Infrastructure Steering Committee</a>.</li>
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<p>You can keep up with news from the R Consortium by following <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/Rconsortium" target="_blank">@RConsortium</a> on Twitter, or at the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-consortium.org/news/blog" target="_blank">R Consortium blog</a>.</p>
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