Sustainability and EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) in the R project

About initiatives to encourage and train a new, more diverse, generation of contributors

Authors

Ella Kaye

Heather Turner

Published

April 22, 2023

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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

BibTeX 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}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Kaye, Ella, and Heather Turner. 2023. “Sustainability and EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) in the R Project.” April 22, 2023. https://ellakaye.co.uk/talks/2023-04-22_sustain-r/.