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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="https://techandmortals.wordpress.com/2018/06/14/r-community-update-announcing-new-delhi-user-meetup-group/"> R – Tech and Mortals</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
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<div>“The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and</div>
<div>taking local action in your own community.”</div>
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<div>Over the past few years, R’s adoption has grown rapidly throughout the world. Much of it can be attributed to the growth of ‘data science’ as a domain. But R’s popularity primarily exists because of its amazing community and their contributions. Be it through open source development, Twitter (<a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/rstats" target="_blank">#rstats</a>), <a rel="nofollow" href="https://community.rstudio.com/" target="_blank">discussion forums</a> or programs such as <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-project.org/gsoc.html" target="_blank">Google Summer of Code (GSoC)</a>, there are numerous channels for beginners and practitioners to interact with each other.</div>
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<div>I’ve had the opportunity to interact with members from R ecosystem through the previously mentioned channels. It has been wonderful to say the least. However, despite increasing popularity and user-base in India, the local community aspect has largely been missing. Even New Delhi, nation’s capital and a startup hub, lacks a strong community. There’d been efforts in the past to organize meetups and conferences but nothing really worked out. To address this, some R practitioners from the region have started a useR meetup group. We plan to host regular meetings, bring together existing R users and help introduce the language to beginners. <strong>You can find the meetup page link <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.meetup.com/Delhi-NCR-useR-Group-R-programming-language/" target="_blank">here</a>.</strong></div>
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<div>Also, we’re grateful to the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-consortium.org/" target="_blank">R consortium</a> for their support to the group through the R User Group and Small Conference Support Program. List of other groups which are part of the program can be found <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.meetup.com/pro/r-user-groups/" target="_blank">here</a>. You can find more information about the program <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-consortium.org/projects/r-user-group-support-program" target="_blank">on their website</a>.</div>
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<div>In addition to members, we’re also looking for speakers. Although we would prefer speakers to be present on venue, webinars can also work out. If you have useful ideas/learnings to share with the group or know someone else who could do the same, please reach out <a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:%20akashtndn.acm@gmail.com" target="_blank">through mail</a> or <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.meetup.com/Delhi-NCR-useR-Group-R-programming-language/discussions/" target="_blank">start a discussion</a> on the meetup page.</div>
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<div>Again, do <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.meetup.com/Delhi-NCR-useR-Group-R-programming-language/" target="_blank">join the group</a> if you want to be a part of this community. Here’s hoping to the community’s success. <img alt="🙂" src="https://i0.wp.com/s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f642.png?w=456&ssl=1" class="wp-smiley" data-recalc-dims="1"></div>
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