If, like me, you were wondering what the R Consortium was going to do for the R language, here’s our first hint: an $85,000 grant to a project called R-Hub, described as a new service to simplify “developing, building, testing and validating R packages.” The consortium’s Infrastructure Steering Committee also plans to award more than $110,000 in additional grants; proposals can be submitted until Jan. 10, 2016.

“R-Hub will modernize and improve the entire process of developing and testing R packages,” Hadley Wickham, chair of the consortium’s Infrastructure Steering Committee, said in a statement. Wickham is one of the R community’s most influential package authors — his devtools and roxygen2 libraries are used by numerous R developers, and he also wrote the O’Reilly book R Packages.

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