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<p>by Joseph Rickert</p>
<p>Here are a few things of some interest in the R world:</p>
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<li>The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.moore.org/">Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation</a> has joined the R Consortium! This is a very positive development for the R Consortium and the R Community in general. The Moore Foundation has been a positive force for supporting technology that can make a real difference in people’s lives since its foundation in 2000 with an endowment of over $6 billion. The grant from the Moore Foundation brings considerable prestige and resources to the R Consortium. And the direct participation of Chris Mentzel, program director of the Moore Foundation’s Data-Driven Discovery Initiative, will lend his expertise to both the R Consortium’s Board of Directors and Infrastructure Steering Committee. (The Data-Driven Discovery Initiative, which supports efforts to develop tools and techniques to harness large, complex data sets, is backed by a $60 million budget.) For more information, see the R Consortium’s <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://news/2017/01/11/gordon-and-betty-moore-foundation-joins-r-consortium-to-encourage-development-maintenance-and-distribution-of-r-software">announcement</a>.</li>
<li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.rstudio.com/conference/">rstudio::conf</a>, the first RStudio-organized conference devoted to “all things R and RStudio”, kicked off today in Orlando following two days of training and workshops. The preliminary numbers for the conference are very encouraging. Over 200 R users attended the workshops, while approximately 400 people are expected to attend the conference itself. The two new workshops developed for rstudio::conf, “Intermediate Shiny” and “Master the Tidyverse” are expected to be offered at various locations later this year. All of the conference presentations should be available online in a few weeks.</li>
<li>The R Consortium’s Information Steering Committee (ISC) first <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-consortium.org/blog/2016/12/06/call-for-proposals">call for proposals</a> for 2017 will close on midnight February 10th. There is still time to get your <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-consortium.org/projects/submit-proposal">proposal</a> reviewed – and possibly funded – by the ISC.</li>
<li>The next satRday event will be held in Cape Town South Africa on February 18th.</li>
<li>New York R will be held on April 21st and 22nd. The website should be up soon.</li>
<li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.rinfinance.com/">R/Finance 2017</a>, the ninth annual R/Finance conference, is scheduled for May 19th and 20th in Chicago. Over the past eight years, R/Finance has attained a superb record for technical excellence and for offering a quality R Community experience. I expect the trend to continue. Registration is not yet open, but the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.rinfinance.com/#cfp">call for papers</a> will be open until February 28th.</li>
<li>Registration for useR! 2017 is open, and the conference is already filling up! This is the premier international conference for the R Community. If you can be in Brussels this summer, don’t miss the opportunity to attend.</li>
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