R Dev Day @ Australia 2025 is an open, collaborative event for people interested in contributing to the code and documentation of base R, or to infrastructure that supports such contribution. Both new and experienced contributors are welcome! It's not necessary to be an R guru - if you've been coding regularly in R for a few years, you'll be able to participate (but we'll be able to use further expertise if you have it!).

You can choose to join in-person at Monash City Campus, Melbourne, or online. Where there are a few people joining virtually in the same town/city, we will reach out to see if you want to meet up locally. Local hubs will be arranged based on registrations received prior to October 31. After that date you will only be able to select one of these local hubs or join online if you can't make it to Melbourne.

Registration will remain open until Sunday November 16, 2025.

Planned schedule

09:00 (If applicable) Arrive at the venue and make your way to the room.
09:15 Hybrid kick-off session, starting to form small groups around the dev day issues.
10:00 Refreshment break
10:30 Work in small groups
12:00 Lunch break
13:00 Continue work
14:30 Refreshment break
15:00 Continue work
17:00 Wrap up within your group

Thanks to our sponsors, Monash University, refreshments and lunch will be provided for participants at Monash City Campus. There will also be the option to stay for a self-funded dinner, further details TBC.

Activities

Tasks are prepared in the run-up to the event, but will likely include:

• Reviewing, analysing and fixing code or documentation bugs reported on R’s Bugzilla.
• Contributing to message translations via Weblate.
• Developing contributor infrastructure, such as the R Dev Container.

You can see example tasks for previous events in the issues of the r-dev-day GitHub repo (some may be rolled over to this event!).

Organizing Team

Heather Turner (University of Warwick)
Di Cook (Monash University)
Nick Tierney (Freelance Statistical Consultant)
Chitra Maharani Saraswati (The Kids Research Institute Australia)
Danyang Dai (University of Queensland)
Fonti Kar (Australian National University)

Please contact h.turner.1@warwick.ac.uk for any queries (or find me on the R Contributors Slack: https://contributor.r-project.org/slack).

Where and when