CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The 2026 version of the conference will be held in-person, from November 11 to 13 in Medellín, Colombia. The call is open for oral presentations, lightning talks, and posters.
Topics of Interest
The suggested topics are the following:
Applications of R in various academic and industrial disciplines. All fields of knowledge and their combinations are of interest.
Development of new R packages
Innovative use of existing R packages
Use of R in teaching
Innovative initiatives for learning R
Experimental design using R
Reproducible research using R
Big data analysis with R
Machine learning with R
Data visualization with R
Network analysis with R
Uses of R in public service
Use of R for open data analysis
Use of R in conjunction with other programming languages and platforms
Artificial Intelligence with R
Proposals can be submitted from mid April via Open Review. Please note that you need to register on the platform to submit your work. The process of creating an account on OpenReview may take up to two-weeks if you are not using an institutional email due to the personal account verification process. We suggest not to leave account creation to the last minute.
Presentation Formats
Oral Communications
Presentations on research results, progress reports, or specific developments that, due to their originality or potential application and impact on the use or development of R in academia or industry, are of interest to the regional R community. Participants in this format will have 10 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes for dialogue with the audience.
Lightning Talks
Lightning talks provide an opportunity to present and discuss advancements, ideas, ongoing research, experiences, and challenges related to the themes of LatinR. Participants in this format will have 5 minutes for their presentation. Lightning talks will be grouped into thematic sessions that will include time at the end for a round of questions.
Posters
Like Lightning Talks, the posters provide an opportunity to present progress and ongoing projects related to LatinR’s topics. During the conference there will be a time block for the presentation of posters and dialogue with the audience.
Proposal Submission Guidelines
All works must be submitted in PDF format, without authors or affiliation, in letter size, written in font size 11 with single spacing. The length must not exceed two pages.
There is a package developed by Elio Campitelli that allows the abstract to be prepared in an RMarkdown file. You can check the details in this post. In previous editions of the conference, it was possible to submit directly from R. Since 2023 it’s no longer possible as we changed platforms. If you prefer to use a word processor, we ask you use this template for submission.
Works must be submitted through the Open Review platform. Registration is required to make the submission. It is important to consider that registration is not automatic; it can take up to two weeks if using a personal account. It is strongly suggested not to leave account creation to the last minute.
In the case of works with shared authorship, it is enough for one person in the group to be registered on Open Review.
Only one proposal can be submitted as the main author. However, it is possible to participate as a co-author in two other.
All works will be carefully reviewed by the members of the Scientific Committee (to be announced soon), considering their originality, contribution, technical quality, and clarity.
Important Dates
Start of work submission: Mid April
Deadline for proposal submission: May 18
Notification of evaluation results: early July
Deadline for confirming participation: early August
Conference dates: 11 - 13 November
Presentations and posters from previous editions
On our YouTube channel, you can watch videos from previous online editions of LatinR. On our GitHub account, you can access summaries and materials from presentations and posters from previous years.