At the European Geosciences Union Meeting (Spring 2017 in Vienna) there will be an interactive sessionthat aims to bring together scientists that share a common indispensable tool: the statistic software R. http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/session/24971 We have the feeling that R users are like little boats on an ocean at night, unaware of how close other people are that have already worked on the same problem earlier. This is the main motivation for this session in spring 2017. If you feel interested to contribute your work we would be delighted to see you enriching this session. If you don't think you will have time to come to the EGU 2017 we would be pleased if you could share this message among your colleagues to linking these small boats on the ocean at night. Kind regards and a pleasant autumn week, Micha Dietze [[alternative HTML version deleted]]