Background

EPSRC RSE Fellowship (2021-2026)

Sustainability & EDI in the R Project


💻 Contributing to the R project through code, infrastructure & outreach
📦 Contributing to packages on CRAN
🚀 Capacity-building in R and data science at Warwick University
💪 Community-building in the R and RSE communities with a focus on EDI

R Project Sprint 2023

48 in person (not all pictured), 7 online.

Who came?




11 R Core
13 Invited
31 Selected

25/40 non core developers self-identified from underrepresented groups

Activities

  • Translation: translation platform admin, documentation, message translation
  • Documentation: triaging and working on bug reports
  • Bug fixes/new functionality:
    • Accessibility, e.g. logging base graphics
    • Low-level, e.g. rng overhead optimization
    • Packages, e.g. improving messages sent to CRAN maintainers
    • Statistics, e.g. enhancing sample.int for unequal probability sampling
    • Graphics, e.g. adding support for “#RGB” colours in R (in addition to “#RRGGBB”)

Translation

~2000 new/updated messages translations across 14 languages

Bugs