RSMF: Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R

The Software Sustainability Institute (UK) has awarded a grant of £500k (~650k USD) under the Research Software Maintenance Fund, to the project Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R. The project is co-led by research software engineers at the University of Birmingham (Heather Turner and Ella Kaye), members of the R Core Team (Simon Urbanek and Peter Dalgaard), and a team of academic/freelance R developers (Gabe Becker, Kylie Bemis, Mikael Jagan, Jeroen Ooms).