About us
This is a group for people interested in contributing to the code and documentation that gets distributed as base R.
We hold online and in-person events, such as
- Contributor Office Hours: monthly drop-in online sessions to help people get started with contributing to R. Discuss work in progress or work together on open bugs/missing translations.
- Collaboration Campfires: online sessions for newcomers to learn more about contributing to R and to work collaboratively on activities to build knowledge and skills in this area.
- Bug BBQ: a global, online event over 24 hours for both new and experienced contributors to address open bugs on R’s bug tracker.
- One-off events such as sprints and translation hackathons.
These events are organized by the R Contribution Working Group, see our webpage for more resources plus links to our social media accounts and Slack group: https://contributor.r-project.org/.
This Meetup account is supported by the R Consortium, as such our meetups adhere to the [Linux Foundation code of conduct](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/about/code-of-conduct/) unless an alternative code of conduct is specified on the event pages.
(Why Reykjavík? This is so meeting times default to UTC all year round! Meetup will show the event in your local time in the banner at the bottom of the page with the red "Attend" button)
Upcoming events
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R Dev Day @ Cascadia R, Portland, USA
Portland State University, Portland State University,, 1633 SW Park Ave, Portland, Or, USHybrid event at Portland State University, OR, USA, with places allocated by external registration only.
An R Dev Day will be held as a satellite event to Cascadia R Conf 2026. This will be an opportunity for novice and experienced contributors to work collaboratively on potential contributions to code, documentation and translations in base R, or to infrastructure that supports such contribution.
Registration is free and open until Friday, June 12th, 2026, or until places are filled, register via Pretix.
5 attendees
R Dev Day @ use R! 2026, Warsaw, Poland
Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, Warsaw, PLHybrid event at Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, with places allocated by external application only.
An R Dev Day will be held as a satellite event to useR! 2026. This will be an opportunity for novice and experienced contributors to work collaboratively on potential contributions to code, documentation and translations in base R, or to infrastructure that supports such contribution.
The event is free to attend - registration at useR! 2026 is not required. Participants will be selected by application to balance across experience levels.
Read more and apply for a place via the event page. Application deadline Friday, April 24 (midnight UTC+2).
3 attendees
Past events
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