The Executive Committee of the Biostatistics Section of the SSC is organizing a free workshop on "R Package Development” on August 18, 2026, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm ET. The workshop will be delivered by Adrien Osakwe, a PhD student in the Quantitative Life Sciences program at McGill University, who is part of the McGill initiative in Computational Medicine (MiCM). The livestream will be available to the public at no cost on the InStats platform.

Find more information and registration links here: https://instats.org/seminar/r-package-development-free-seminar

The workshop also covers key topics including:

•            GitHub-based workflows for version control

•            Automated testing and package maintenance with GitHub Actions

After attending this workshop, participants will:

•            understand the structure of an R package

•            understand the value and application of unit testing

•            be able to prepare informative documentation

•            be able to run automated package maintenance workflows