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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://f.briatte.org/r/more-components-of-the-r-ecosystem"> R / Notes</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<p>This note lists a few of the organizations that are pushing the R language forward, as of early 2017. R is happy language right now.</p>
<p>Historically, the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-project.org/">R Project for Statistical Computing</a> has been supported by the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-project.org/foundation/">R Foundation</a> since its inception in 2002. It has laid down some of the most important building blocks of the R ecosystem, including, of course, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.r-project.org/">CRAN</a>, as well as the <em><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://journal.r-project.org/">R Journal</a></em> and the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-project.org/mail.html">R mailing-lists</a>.</p>
<p>Fifteen years later, many other organizations have been set up to help developing R and its user base, at various levels and through various means:</p>
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<li>The R Foundation has set up the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://forwards.github.io/">R Foundation Taskforce on Women and Other Under-Represented Groups</a>, which teams up with a new kind of R user group, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://rladies.org/">R-Ladies</a>, a worldwide initiative to encourage gender diversity in the R community.</li>
<li>The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-consortium.org/">R Consortium</a> brings private-sector funds to R developers through grants for development and community projects. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-consortium.org/blog">Its blog</a> documents the progress made on each project, many of which are <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-consortium.org/projects/awarded-projects">pretty awesome</a>.</li>
<li>The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-Bloggers</a> blogs aggregator has been around for a while, and a new initiative launched last year, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://rweekly.org/">R Weekly</a>, provides a more digestible list of R-related material, at a slower pace. The list is written <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/rweekly/rweekly.org/blob/gh-pages/draft.md">collaboratively</a>.</li>
<li>Last but not least, the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.rstudio.com/">RStudio</a> company develops the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/">RStudio IDE</a> and related things like <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.rstudio.com/products/shiny/">Shiny</a>, R server-side products, and many R packages. It also just recently held its very first conference, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.rstudio.com/conference/">rstudio::conf</a>.</li>
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<p>This list does not cover the smaller organizations, such as the recently created <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/r-spatial">r-spatial</a> group, which help developing R packages for a myriad of different applications with often very different audiences.</p>
<p>I would say that R is <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://hackernoon.com/which-programming-languages-have-the-happiest-and-angriest-commenters-ebe91b3852ed#.ix9sjdtdh">pretty happy community</a> right now. Getting help to use R is <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-project.org/help.html">easier than ever</a>, the quality of many new software releases is very high, and the user base is becoming more and more diverse, which is a huge (and indispensable) asset.</p>
<p>The next step might be to boost the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-users.com/">job opportunities</a> available to R users, and to better organise the ways that it is taught in universities, on online learning platforms like <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.coursera.org/">Coursera</a> or <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.datacamp.com/">DataCamp</a>, or through private training firms.</p>
<p>Although there is no single way to keep track of everything going on in the R community, almost everything shows up on Twitter at some point, generally labelled with the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=%23rstats">#rstats</a> hashtag.</p>
<p>Go and explore, and happy new year!</p>
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