About

R Dev Day @ Rencontres R 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!

This is a satellite event to Rencontres R, which takes place Monday 19 to Wednesday 21 in Mons, Belgium. It is not necessary to register for the main conference in order to attend the R Dev Day.

The working languages will be French and English.

Registration for both events will remain open until Friday 18 April 2025.

Planned schedule

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

Thanks to our sponsors, Stat for U, refreshments and lunch will be provided. There will 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)
Hugo Gruson (data.org)
Philippe Grosjean (University of Mons)
Kathy Huet (University of Mons)

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

For more details on the venue and location (in French), see the Informations Pratiques page of the Rencontres R 2025 website.