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== Community ==
There are three main groups that help support R software development:

* The R Core Team was founded in 1997 to maintain the ''R'' [[source code]].
* The R Foundation for Statistical Computing was founded in April 2003 to provide financial support.
* The R Consortium is a [[Linux Foundation]] project to develop ''R'' infrastructure.

''[[The R Journal]]'' is an [[open access]], [[academic journal]] which features short to medium-length articles on the use and development of R. It includes articles on packages, programming tips, CRAN news, and foundation news.

The R community hosts many conferences and in-person meetups.{{efn|See here for a community maintained GitHub list {{URL|jumpingrivers.github.io/meetingsR/}}}} These groups include:

* UseR!: an annual international R user conference ([https://www.r-project.org/conferences/ website])
* Directions in Statistical Computing (DSC) ([https://www.r-project.org/conferences/ website])
* [[R-Ladies]]: an organization to promote [[gender diversity]] in the R community ([https://rladies.org website])
* SatRdays: R-focused conferences held on Saturdays ([https://satrdays.org/ website])
* R Conference ([https://rstats.ai/ website])
* posit::conf (formerly known as rstudio::conf) ([https://www.posit.co/conference/ website])
On social media sites like Twitter, the hashtag <code>#rstats</code> can be used to keep up with new developments in the R community.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wickham |first=Hadley |url=https://r4ds.had.co.nz/introduction.html |title=1 Introduction {{!}} R for Data Science |last2=Grolemund |first2=Garrett |date=January 2017 |publisher=[[O'Reilly Media]] |year=2017 |isbn=978-1491910399 |edition=1st |language=en}}</ref>