EDI in the R Community

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<h1>EDI in the R Community</h1>
 
Heather Turner 

Research Software Engineering Fellow University of Warwick

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# Background

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# Potted History of R

1995: R released under a GNU public license

1997: CRAN and R Core team established

2000: R 1.0.0 released

April 2022: R 11th in TIOBE rankings

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<img src="robert_gentleman_and_ross_ihaka.png" alt="Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka" style="width:550px">
At the Black Crow Cafe, Auckland, NZ 
(source: [R. Ihaka](https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/the-r-project.pdf))]

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1993 - shared vias Statlib, others start to use
CRAN - 12 packages originally
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# Gender Diversity

.pull-left[![Bar chart of random sample of CRAN maintainers by self-identified gender: 10.9% Woman, 88.2% Man, 0.1% Non-binary, 0.7% NA](pinto_et_al_2018_gender_plot2.png)
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Only ~11% women/non-binary package maintainers.

Similar over-representation of men in general user community

* [R Consortium Survey, 2017](https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/downloads/Voice%20of%20R%20Community.pdf) \> 80%
* [RStudio R Community Survey 2020](R Community Survey) ~80%

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# Geographical Diversity

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<img src="pinto_et_al_2018_loc_plot2.png" alt="Bar chart of random sample of CRAN maintainers by self-identified region: 48.9% Europe, 34.2% America, 5.9% Asia, 5.6% South America, 4.1% Oceania, 0.5% Africa, 0.4% Central America, 0.4% NA">
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# EDI Initiatives

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# Women in R

In 2015:
  - Myself and Bettina Grün elected to R Foundation
  - Women in R taskforce set up in December 2015
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R Foundation founded 2003

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# useR! 2016 survey

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<img src="useR2016.png" alt="" style="width:800px">
(source: [ https://forwards.github.io/blog/2017/01/13/mapping-users/](https://forwards.github.io/blog/2017/01/13/mapping-users/))

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Note already had some diversity scholarships and made some recommendations

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# Forwards

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.pull-right-64[Widening participation in R Foundation activities: *useR!*, *R Journal*, CRAN, R project
- Accessibility
- Community
- Conferences
- On-ramps
- Surveys
- Teaching

[@R_Forwards](https://twitter.com/R_Forwards) / [forwards.github.io](https://forwards.github.io/)
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# Forwards Team

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.img-100[![](heather.jpg)]
.img-100[![](gwynn.jpg)]
.img-100[![](jonathan.jpg)]
.img-100[![](kevin.jpg)]
.img-100[![](noa_tamir-300x300.jpg)]
.img-100[![](yanina-300x300.jpg)] 
.img-100[![](Saranjeet-Kaur-Bhogal-150x150.jpg)]
.img-100[![](michael_lawrence.jpg)]
.img-100[![](anna.jpg)]
.img-100[![](andrea.jpg)]
.img-100[![](mine.jpg)]
.img-100[![](emma.jpg)] 
Core Team: Heather Turner, gwynn sturdevant, Jonathan Godfrey, Kevin O'Brien, Noa Tamir, Yanina Bellini Saibene,
Saranjeet Kaur, Michael Lawrence, Anna Vasylytsya, Andrea Sánchez-Tapia, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Emma Rand

Plus >20 sub-team members!
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# R Consortium

- Funded projects
 - Forwards package development workshops
- Working groups 
 - 2018: R-Community IDEA
- RUG and conference support
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<img src="r-consortium.png" alt="" style="width:550px">
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Inclusion, diversity equity and accessibility
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# R-Ladies

Later: Twin Cities, Taipei, London

2016: 
 - San Francisco & London organizer meet at useR!
 - R Consortium grant to create R-Ladies Global

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<img src="R-LadiesGlobal.png" alt="" style="width:400px">
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# R-Ladies Growth

Currently 216 Chapters (source: [R Community Explorer](https://benubah.github.io/r-community-explorer))
![Growth of R-Ladies from October 2012 to October 2021: single numbers up to late 2016 then steady increase up to ](rladies-growth.png)

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# R Ladies Global Team

.center[
.img-100[![Claudia Vitolo](claudia.jpg)]
.img-100[![Athanasia Monika Mowinckel](mo-150x150.jpg)]
.img-100[![Averi Giudicessi](averi.png)]
.img-100[![Batool Almarzouq](batool_almarzouq-300x300.jpg)]
.img-100[![Bea Hernández](bea.jpg)]
.img-100[![Christin Zasada](Christin.jpg)]
.img-100[![Emmanuelle Nunes](emmanuelle.jpeg)]
.img-100[![Florencia D’Andrea](florencia.jpg)]

.img-100[![Erin LeDell](erin.jpg)]
.img-100[![Jennifer Thompson](jennifer.jpg)]
.img-100[![Katherine Simeon](Katherine-147x150.jpg)]
.img-100[![Maëlle Salmon](maelle-300x298.jpg)]
.img-100[![Mouna Belaid](mouna_belaid-300x300.jpg)]
.img-100[![Nadeja Sero](Nadejda-Sero-150x150.jpg)]
.img-100[![Noa Tamir](noa_tamir-300x300.jpg)]
.img-100[![Page Piccinini](page.jpg)]

.img-100[![Hannah Frick](hannah.jpg)]
.img-100[![Pao Corrales](paocorrales.jpg)]
.img-100[![Patricia A. Loto](Patricia_A_Loto-150x150.jpg)]
.img-100[![Riva Quiroga](rivaquiroga.png)]
.img-100[![Saranjeet Kaur Bhogal](Saranjeet-Kaur-Bhogal-150x150.jpg)]
.img-100[![Shannon Pileggi](shannon.jpg)]
.img-100[![Sheila Saia](sheila.jpg)]
.img-100[![Yanina Bellini Saibene](yanina-300x300.jpg)]

https://rladies.org/about-us/team/
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# R-Ladies vs RUGS

* 858 RUGS on Meetup.com (earliest 2008)
* R-Ladies relatively stronger in Latin America

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![Number of R-Ladies groups per region: US/Canada 59, Europe 57, Latin America 59, Australia 10, Asia 19, Africa 12](rladies-loc2.png)
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![Number of R user groups per region: US/Canada 292, Europe 279, Latin America 111, Australia 36, Asia 97, Africa 43](rugs-loc2.png)
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# satRdays

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2016: R Consortium grant to start
- Locally organized
- Strong commitment to diversity
 - Ticket price < 8hr min wage

\> 20 conferences
- 6 in Africa
- 1 in S. America, Asia, Oceania

[https://satRdays.org/](https://satRdays.org/)
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<img src="satRday-logo.png" alt="" style="width:400px">
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free/low-cost
locally organized

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# useR! 2017

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Forwards recommendations implemented
- Wider diversity scholarships
- Subsidised childcare 
- Improved code of conduct

Rainbow R established
- [@R_LGBTQ](https://twitter.com/r_lgbtq) 
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<img src="useR2017.jpg" alt="" style="width:400px">
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# R Foundation Endorsed Conferences

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Latin America:
- R Day, May 2018, Curitiba, Brazil.
- LatinR, September 2018, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- ConectaR, January, 2019, San José, Costa Rica.

India:
- R@IIRSA. December, 2019, Mumbai.
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<img src="endorsed.png" alt="" style="width:550px">
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# Regional Networks

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![Hex logos of LatinR (a blue hex with "LATINR" and horizontal bars in approximate shape of Latin America in white), ArabR (four arms holding each others wrists forming a square with "Arab R" in the middle), AfricaR (black chloropleth of Africa with "Africa" in white and R logo on top, with orange to purple gradient in background) and AsiaR (black chloropleth of Asia with "Asia" underneath, overlaying the R logo")](regional.png)
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* Provide community
* Support user groups
* Organize regional events

[@LatinR_Conf](https://twitter.com/LatinR_Conf) / [latin-r.com](https://latin-r.com/)  
[ArabR](https://arabr.github.io/ArabR-Website/)  
[@AfricaRUsers](https://twitter.com/AfricaRUsers) / [africa-r.org](https://africa-r.org/)  
[@AsiaR_comm](https://twitter.com/AsiaR_comm) / [AsiaR-community](https://github.com/AsiaR-community)  
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# Regional Leaders

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LatinR chairs: 
.img-100[![Florencia D'Andrea](florencia.jpg)]
.img-100[![Laura Ación](lacion-150x150.jpg)]
.img-100[![Natalia da Silva](natalia.jpg)]
.img-100[![Riva Quiroga](riva.jpg)]
.img-100[![Yanina Bellini Saibene](yanina-300x300.jpg)] 
AfricaR leaders: 
.img-100[![Shelmith Kariuki](shel.jpg)]
.img-100[![Ahmadou Dicko](ahmadou.jpg)]
.img-100[![Nelda Limilimi](Nelda.jpg)]
.img-100[![Anicet Ebou](anicet.jpg)]
.img-100[![Vebashini Naidoo](vebash.jpg)]
.img-100[![Dennis Irorere](dennis.jpg)]
.img-100[![Mohammed Ibrahim Ali](mohammed.jpg)] 
AsiaR founders:
.img-100[![Janani Ravi](janani.jpg)]
.img-100[![Adithi Upadhya](adithi.jpg)] 
ArabR team: .img-100[![Hussain Alsalman](hussain.png)]
.img-100[![Amal Tlili](amal.jpg)] 
.img-100[![Iman Al-Hasani](iman.jpg)] 
.img-100[![Fahad Almsned](fahad.jpg)] 
.img-100[![Haifa Ben Messaoud](haifa.jpg)] 
.img-100[![Kamila Benadrouche](kamila.png)] 
.img-100[![Mohammed El Fodil](fodil.jpg)] 
.img-100[![Mouna Belaid](mouna.jpg)] 
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# Minorities in R

> MiR Community aims to support historically underrepresented R users around the world.
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![Minorities in R logo, "MiR" in the middle on a green background surrounded by hands of various skin colours typing on keyboards](mir_logo2.png)
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- MiR community Slack
- Blog
- Webinars and tutorials
- Support RStudio instructor certification

[@miR_community](https://twitter.com/miR_community) / [mircommunity.com](https://mircommunity.com/)
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# MiR Team

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.img-100[![](danielle.jpg)]
.img-100[![](dorris.jpg)] 
Co-founders: Danielle Smalls-Perkins, Dorris Scott 
.img-100[![](silvia.jpg)]
.img-100[![](liz.jpg)]
.img-100[![](audris.jpg)]
.img-100[![](andy.jpg)]
.img-100[![](meenakshi.jpg)]
.img-100[![](zaynaib_ola.jpg)]
.img-100[![](zane.png)]
 
Silvia Canelón, Liz Hare, Audris Campbell, Andy Murtha, Meenakshi Kushwaha, Ola Giwa, Zane Dax
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# Developer Community Events

Tidyverse Developer Days (2019,2020)
 - open events
 - first-timers encouraged
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<img src="TDD2019.jpg" alt="" style="width:550px">
(source: [B. Milz](https://beatrizmilz.com/blog/2019-08-12-tidydevday/))
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# R Contribution Working Group

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<img src="rcore.png" alt="" style="width:700px">
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* Motivated by R Core panel at useR! 2020
* Collaboration between R Core, Forwards and community groups
* Aim to foster larger, more diverse community of contributors to the R project.
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# RCWG Initiatives

First year (2020-2021):

- Created the R Contribution Site: [contributor.r-project.org/](https://contributor.r-project.org/)
 - Set up the [R-Devel Slack](https://forwards.github.io/rcontribution/slack)
 - Developed a draft version of the [R Development Guide](https://forwards.github.io/rdevguide)
 - Organized, prepared and delived two contributor-focused tutorials at *useR! 2021*
     - [Contributing to R](https://youtu.be/CZmldTOdlRM?list=PL4IzsxWztPdnCC_kMCYKrd_t6cViMhBrD)
     - [Translating R to your language](https://forwards.github.io/rcontribution/tutorials#translating-r-to-your-language)

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# Collaboration Campfires

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Novice-friendly topics
 - Bug handling
 - Contributing translations
Designed to be inclusive
 - Community champions
 - Targeted promotion
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<img src="collaboration-campfires.jpg" alt="" style="width:550px">
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# Ongoing RCWG Initiatives

* Google Season of Docs: 
_Expanding and reorganizing the R Development Guide_
 - new chapter on contributing translations
 - using a git workflow to test bug patches
* Google Summer of Code: _Track R Translation Status_
 - dashboard to monitor status of translated messages in R
* Bug BBQ
 - online, 24-hour event after useR! 2022 to tackle bugs
 - aiming to be novice-friendly!

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# RCWG participants

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.img-100-float[![](Saranjeet-Kaur-Bhogal-150x150.jpg)] 
Saranjeet Kaur *R Development Guide Collaboration Campfires* 
.img-100-float[![](lluis.jpg)] 
Lluís Revilla Sancho *R Bugzilla analysis* 
.img-100-float[![](michael_chirico.jpg)] 
.img-100-float-next[![](michael_lawrence.jpg)] 
Michael Chirico 
Michael Lawrence *Translations tutorial*
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.img-100-float[![](kara.jpg)] 
Kara Woo *R-Ladies link, RWeekly Slack moderator* 
.img-100-float[![](gwynn.jpg)] 
gwynn sturdevant *MiR link* 
.img-100-float[![](gabe.jpg)] 
.img-100-float-next[![](martin.jpg)] 
Gabriel Becker 
Martin Mächler *Contributing tutorial*
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Plus several others joining meetings, contributing via [github.com/r-devel/rcontribution](https://github.com/forwards/rcontribution)

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# Impact

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# Overview

- User community: 
    - Grass-roots communities have had a big impact on building welcoming community
    - R Foundation/R Consortium played role by stimulating change/providing support
- CRAN: need updated data, but would need large changes to make an impact
- R core/contributors: still early days!
- useR! 
    - gender balance improved in recent years (women and gender minorities 2017-2021: 27%, 30%, 34%, 42%)
    - COVID (moving online) + greater representation in committees had biggest impact on diversity

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# useR! Global 2021