Having programming skills is becoming increasingly important for many geoscientists who wish to make their research as reproducible as it can possibly be. One of the most common languages of choice is the R language for statistical computing.
The R community, as other programming communities, suffers from underrepresentation of women and minority genders (e.g., trans men, non-binary, etc) in every role and area of participation, whether as leaders, package developers, conference speakers, conference participants, educators, or users.
This abstract summarizes some of the recent work that put Latin America (LatAm) in the international R user map. In January 2017, R-Ladies Buenos Aires (BA) was founded. R-Ladies BA encouraged the foundation of other R-Ladies groups in the region (e.g., Santa Rosa, Santiago). In two years, LatAm went from one to 29 R-Ladies active groups.
English can be a barrier. Hence, LatAm R-Ladies led efforts to translate into Spanish: R for Data Science (http://es.
The Weather Radar (WR) of the Experimental Agricultural Station (EAS) INTA Anguil produces daily a volume of 17GB of data, which represents about 6.2 Tb annually. The use of such data when they are generated, as well as its subsequent management, use …