Overview
The R Project is over 20 years old, but its future is not secure ‐ many of the R Core Team are nearing retirement and there are not enough new contributors to sustain the work. We present a number of initiatives, organised under Heather Turner’s ‘Sustainability and EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) in the R Project’ fellowship, to encourage and train a new, more diverse, generation of contributors. These include R contributor office hours, collaboration campfires, bug BBQs, translatathons and an updated R development guide. This presentation is also a call to action to encourage others to get involved in supporting this language, a fundamental piece of software in many disciplines, used by an estimated two million people.
Event details
Event: SatRday London 2023
Date: April 22nd, 2023
Time: 11:50
Location: Bush House, 30 Aldwych, London
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Citation
@online{kaye2023,
author = {Kaye, Ella and Turner, Heather},
title = {Sustainability and {EDI} {(Equality,} {Diversity} and
{Inclusion)} in the {R} Project},
date = {2023-04-22},
url = {https://ellakaye.co.uk/talks/2023-04-22_sustain-r/},
langid = {en}
}