On October 25, 2017, an announcement was made by Heather Turner on the R User Group (RUG) Organizers Slack: the R Foundation Conference Committee was interested in the emergence of academic-focused R events in regions not currently covered by useR! In less than a week, we had organized our first videoconference to start thinking about how to face the challenge. This quick response was not the result of mere luck, but the consequence of a year in which the R community — through its local RUGs and social media presence— grew stronger in South America. By mid November everything was set up: a name, a place, a date, and a motivated international organizing committee. The first edition took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the second in Santiago de Chile, Chile. This year, the latinamerican R community will meet up in Montevideo, Uruguay.
LatinR Chair
Natalia da Silva
Instituto de Estadística, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración, Universidad de la República
R-Ladies Montevideo, Uruguay
Riva Quiroga
Facultad de Letras, Universidad Católica de Chile
R-Ladies Santiago / Valparaíso, Chile
Yanina Bellini Saibene
Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria
R-Ladies Santa Rosa, Argentina + Global Team
Scientific Committee
Adriana Gili
Univsersidad Nacional de La Pampa
Carmen Le Foulon
Centro de Estudios Públicos (CEP)
Francisco Urdinez
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Germán Rosati
IDAES-UNSAM / CONICET, Argentina
Ignacio Alverez-Castro
IESTA-Universidad de la República
Jairo Cugliari
ERIC-Université Lumière Lyon 2
Juan Cruz Rodriguez
FAMAF - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Juan José Goyeneche
IESTA-Universidad de la República
Laura Ación
LatinR Inaugural Local Chair / UBA-CONICET, Argentina
Leonardo Moreno
IESTA-Universidad de la República
Lucia Rodriguez Planes
Universidad Nacional de Tierra del Fuego - CONICET
Marcela Alfaro
Department of Statistics, University of California, Santa Cruz