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<p>The R Consortium <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-consortium.org/announcement/2018/02/22/announcing-second-round-isc-funded-projects-2017" target="_blank">passed a significant milestone this month</a>: since its inception, the non-profit body has provided more than US$500,000 in grant funding to project proposed by the R Community. The R Consortium uses the dues from its <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-consortium.org/members" target="_blank">member organizations</a> to fund grant proposals, which are reviewed twice a year by its <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-consortium.org/about/governance" target="_blank">Infrastructure Steering Committee</a>. (If you'd like to propose a project, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-consortium.org/projects/call-for-proposals" target="_blank">proposals for the next round</a> are being accepted through April 1.)</p>
<p>New projects funded in this round include:</p>
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<li>Creating a new data type for R to unify the &quot;units&quot; and &quot;errors&quot; packages</li>
<li>Updating the R module for the Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator (SWIG) to support modern R programming practices like reference classes</li>
<li>Providing an API and test framework to underlie the &quot;future&quot; package</li>
<li>A package to process spatiotemporal data held on servers with a dplyr-like syntax</li>
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<p>With these new grants, the R Consortium has <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-consortium.org/projects/awarded-projects" target="_blank">funded 21 projects in total</a>, from R packages to community events to developer tools. You can read more about the new projects in the announcement linked below.</p>
<p>R Consortium: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-consortium.org/announcement/2018/02/22/announcing-second-round-isc-funded-projects-2017" target="_blank">Announcing the second round of ISC Funded Projects for 2017</a></p>
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