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Participants sitting around a desk with their laptops at an R Dev Day, turning to smile at the camera. The group appears to be predominantly women of multiple nationalities and one of the group may be recognised as the well-known R developer, Hadley Wickham.

R Dev Days 2025

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Upcoming deadlines to join an R Dev Day and collaborate on contributions to the code, documentation and translations in base R
Apr 10, 2025
Heather Turner

A Book Dash for the R Development Guide

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A summary of the book dash for the R Development Guide that took place from 2-6 December 2024.
Dec 6, 2024
Saranjeet Kaur Bhogal, Heather Turner

Website Relaunch

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Announcement about the relaunch of the Forwards website.
Jan 22, 2024
Heather Turner, Ella Kaye, Zane Dax

BlackLivesMatter: A joint statement by Forwards and R-Ladies

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#BlackLivesMatter: A joint statement by Forwards and R-Ladies
Jun 6, 2020

Southern Africa Project 2020

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education
software
Review of the R training and community events organized as part of the Forwards Southern Africa Project 2020, in South Africa, Eswatini and Botswana.
May 25, 2020
Heather Turner

Recap of R-Ladies Charlottesville Forwards Workshop

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Lessons from R-Ladies Charlottesville Forwards Workshop
Nov 22, 2019
Angela Li, Samantha Toet

The state of R in Africa

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community
2019 Round-up of initiatives in the R community across Africa.
Nov 15, 2019
Lorna Maria

Workshops for Women and Girls

education
software
community
Round up of Forwards workshops supported by a grant from the R Consortium, to develop R package development skills among women and R coding skills among high school girls.
Sep 22, 2019
Forwards Teaching Team

HavanaR Workshop 2018

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community
education
Announcement of joint >eR-Biostat and Forwards workshop in Havana, on visualisation methods and exploratory analysis of high dimensional and multivariate datasets in R.
Jul 7, 2018
Ziv Shkedy, Julie Josse

R in Latin America

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community
Round-up of initiatives in the R community across Latin America.
Feb 5, 2018
Ariel Levy, Fernando Mayer, Juan Pablo Marín Díaz, Riva Quiroga, Marcela Alfaro, Alejandro Reyes, Heather Turner

R in Africa

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community
Round-up of initiatives in the R community across Africa.
Dec 1, 2017
Andrew Collier, Anelda van der Walt, Ziv Shkedy, Theoni Photopoulou, Margareth Gfrerer, Heather Turner

Girls Coding Workshop, Melbourne

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community
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teaching
Girls Coding Workshop, Melbourne
Nov 20, 2017
Di Cook

useRs Participation in the R Community

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useR!
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Community Involvement of useRs
Jun 19, 2017
Stella Bollmann, Dianne Cook, Rudolf Debelak, Jasmine Dumas, John Fox, Julie Josse, Oliver Keyes, Carolin Strobl, Heather Turner”

useRs Relationship with R

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useR!
survey
programming
Report on programming section of useR! 2016 survey
Mar 11, 2017
Stella Bollmann, Dianne Cook, Rudolf Debelak, Jasmine Dumas, John Fox, Julie Josse, Oliver Keyes, Carolin Strobl, Heather Turner

Emily Robinson, from Social Scientist to Data Scientist

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data science
careers
Maëlle Salmon, a Forwards collaborator, got the chance to interview Emily Robinson, who recently became a data analyst at Etsy. A very inspiring R-Lady!
Feb 7, 2017
Maëlle Salmon

Call to Join Forwards

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Inviting New Members to join Forwards
Jan 13, 2017

Mapping useRs

Report on demographics section of useR! 2016 survey
Jan 13, 2017
Stella Bollmann, Dianne Cook, Rudolf Debelak, Jasmine Dumas, John Fox, Julie Josse, Oliver Keyes, Carolin Strobl, Heather Turner
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