The Why R? Turkey 2021 as a three-day online conference was organized to bring together researchers and professionals from Turkey on April 16-17-18, 2021. We hereby aimed to promote the R community in Turkey by bringing R users with different backgrounds such as genetics, sociology, finance, economy, bio-statistics. There were 8 thematic sessions and 18 invited speakers. In this article, it is aimed to describe the preparation phase, technical details, and the impact of the conference on audience.
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Cavus, et al., "The R Journal: Conference Report of Why R? Turkey 2021", The R Journal, 2021
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@article{RJ-2021-1-whyrturkey2021conferencereport,
author = {Cavus, Mustafa and Aydın, Olgun and Evkaya, Ozan and Ozdemir, Ozancan and Bezer, Deniz and Dar, Ugur},
title = {The R Journal: Conference Report of Why R? Turkey 2021},
journal = {The R Journal},
year = {2021},
note = {https://journal.r-project.org/news/RJ-2021-1-whyrturkey2021conferencereport},
volume = {13},
issue = {1},
issn = {2073-4859},
pages = {648-653}
}