THE R CONSORTIUM

The R Consortium, Inc. is a group of businesses organized under an open source governance and foundation model to provide support to the R community, the R Foundation and groups and individuals, using, maintaining and distributing R software. The R language is an open source environment for statistical computing and graphics, and runs on a wide variety of computing platforms. The R language has enjoyed significant growth, and now supports over 2 million users. A broad range of industries have... adopted the R language, including biotech, finance, research and high technology industries. The R language is often integrated into third party analysis, visualization and reporting applications. The central mission of the R Consortium is to work with and provide support to the R Foundation and to the key organizations developing, maintaining, distributing and using R software through the identification, development and implementation of infrastructure projects. From a governance perspective, the business of the consortium is managed by a Board of Directors. The technical aspects of the project, including the development and implementation of infrastructure projects, is overseen by an Infrastructure Steering Committee. While the initial members of the Infrastructure Steering Committee consist of representatives of the founding members of the R Consortium, Inc., project leads of key infrastructure projects will become voting members of the Infrastructure Steering Committee.More