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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/02/update-on-r-consortium-projects.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>On January 31, the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-consortium.org/">R Consortium</a> presented a webinar with updates on various projects that have been funded (thanks to the R Consortium member dues) and are underway. Each project was presented by the project leader, a member of the R community. You can <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/4493833045968682243">watch the recording of the webinar here</a>, but here's a brief summary of what was covered, grouped by infrastructure projects (R packages and support systems) and community projects (events and groups).</p>
<h2>Infrastructure projects</h2>
<p><strong><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://r-hub.io/">R-hub</a> [Gabor Csardi]</strong>: As one of the first projects funded by the R Consortium, the R-hub project is nearing completion. This R package-building services makes things easier for package developers (and CRAN maintainers) by building and testing R packages on Windows, Linux and (soon!) Mac.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://a4.typepad.com/6a0105360ba1c6970c01bb09779284970d-pi"><img title="Rhub" alt="Rhub" src="http://a4.typepad.com/6a0105360ba1c6970c01bb09779284970d-400wi"></a></p>
<p><strong><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/RL10N">RL10N</a> [Richie Cotton]</strong>: This project aims to make it easier to provide translations (localizations) of R packages, via the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.revolutionanalytics.com/package/poio/">poio</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.revolutionanalytics.com/package/msgtools/">msgtools</a> packages. </p>
<p><strong><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://wiki.r-consortium.org/view/Distributed_Computing_Working_Group">Distributed Computing Working Group</a> [Michael Lawrence]</strong>: This group is developing a standardized API in R for distributed computing, and are in the process of implementing the draft interface in the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/vertica/ddR">ddR package</a>, with the assistance of an R Consortium-funded intern (Clark Fitzgerald).</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://a4.typepad.com/6a0105360ba1c6970c01b7c8d4743c970b-pi"><img title="DdR" alt="DdR" src="http://a4.typepad.com/6a0105360ba1c6970c01b7c8d4743c970b-400wi"></a></p>
<p><strong><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/edzer/sfr/">Simple Features for R</a> [Edzer Pebesma]</strong>: This project is developing the &quot;sf&quot; package for R, providing a standardized interface to spatial data used with geographic information systems.</p>
<p><strong><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/r-spatial/mapedit">Mapedit</a> [Tim Appelhans]</strong>: The goal of this project is to provide an tool for quick-and-easy editing of spatial data visualizations. An alpha version of the mapedit package is available now.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://a6.typepad.com/6a0105360ba1c6970c01b8d25ec416970c-pi"><img title="Mapedit" alt="Mapedit" src="http://a6.typepad.com/6a0105360ba1c6970c01b8d25ec416970c-400wi"></a></p>
<p><strong><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://rstats-db.github.io/DBI/">Improving DBI</a> [Kirill Müller]</strong>: This group aims to provide a unified database interface for R. The interface is defined by the DBI package, and it's already being used by the RSQLite package.</p>
<p><strong><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/RDocTaskForce/documentation">R Documentation Task Force</a> [Andrew Webb]</strong>: This group is working to design and implement the next-generation documentation system for R.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://a3.typepad.com/6a0105360ba1c6970c01b8d25ec4fb970c-pi"><img title="RDTF" alt="RDTF" src="http://a3.typepad.com/6a0105360ba1c6970c01b8d25ec4fb970c-400wi"></a></p>
<p><strong><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://wiki.r-consortium.org/view/R_Native_API">Native APIs for R</a> [Lukas Stadler]</strong>: This working group is looking to modernize the low-level APIs provided within R's underlying implementation and contribute improvements to the R Core team.</p>
<p><strong><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://wiki.r-consortium.org/view/Code_Coverage_Tool_for_R">Code Coverage</a> [Jim Hester]</strong>: This working group aims to improve the quality of R packages by making it easier to check that all the code is tested, via the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/jimhester/covr">covr package</a>.</p>
<h2>Community projects</h2>
<p><strong><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://satrdays.org/">SatRDays</a> [Gergely Daroczi]</strong>: The SatRDays series of community conferences as now well established, with a successful conference in <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://budapest.satrdays.org/">Budapest</a> and upcoming events in <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://capetown2017.satrdays.org/">Cape Town</a> and Puerto Rico.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://a0.typepad.com/6a0105360ba1c6970c01bb09779810970d-pi"><img title="SatRDays" alt="SatRDays" src="http://a0.typepad.com/6a0105360ba1c6970c01bb09779810970d-400wi"></a></p>
<p><strong><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-consortium.org/projects/r-user-group-support-program">RUGS</a> [Joseph Rickert]</strong>: The R Consortium now has an active project to fund local R user groups, and has provided grants to 25 groups thus far.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://a5.typepad.com/6a0105360ba1c6970c01bb097797ad970d-pi"><img title="R Consortium RUGS" alt="R Consortium RUGS" src="http://a5.typepad.com/6a0105360ba1c6970c01bb097797ad970d-400wi"></a></p>
<p><strong><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://riotworkshop.github.io/">RIOT Workshop</a> [Lukas Stadler]</strong>: The Workshop on R implementation, Optimization and Tooling — focused on core R engine development — was held last year in Stanford, and follow-up is being planned for 2017.</p>
<p><strong><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://rladies.org/">R-Ladies</a> [Gabriela de Queiroz]</strong>: This group has founded over 35 chapters of R-Ladies user groups, serving more than 4000 female R users.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://a3.typepad.com/6a0105360ba1c6970c01b7c8d47c23970b-pi"><img title="R-ladies" alt="R-ladies" src="http://a3.typepad.com/6a0105360ba1c6970c01b7c8d47c23970b-450wi"></a></p>
<p><strong><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://lgatto.github.io/SC-ICS-Proposal/">Carpentries Instructor Training</a> [Laurent Gatto]</strong>: An R Consortium grant provided funding to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/lgatto/SC-ICS-Proposal/blob/master/exercises.md">develop training materials</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2016-10-18-cambridge-instructor-training-19-20-september">train 10 additional instructors</a> for <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.datacarpentry.org/">Data Carpentry</a>, with more to come.</p>
<h2>Wow!</h2>
<p>Personally, I'm so impressed with the contributions that all of these groups have made for all R users with such effective use of their R Consortium grants. (There's more to come, too: the R Consortium is <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-consortium.org/projects/call-for-proposals">accepting applications for the next round of grants</a>, through today.) If you agree with me that these represent worthwhile projects, I hope you encourage your employer to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-consortium.org/about/join">become a member of the R Consortium</a>. The more members (and the membership dues), the more such projects can be funded.</p>
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