About NHS-R Community

R is a powerful, free open source data science and statistics environment, used in industry, academia and major corporations (eg Microsoft, Google, Facebook) but its use in the NHS is almost non-existent.

The absence of R at scale in the NHS, means that the NHS is unable to take advantage of the huge benefits of R including a worldwide R community which freely shares learning and resources. This award will enable us to set up and establish an NHS-R community that supports the learning, application and exploitation of R in the NHS