The Budapest Users of R Network, which is the only one active Hungarian R User Group so far, was founded a bit more than a year ago, and I was really happy to see more than 200 registrations before its first anniversary. The RUG proved to be active and popular in Hungary, which makes me feel extremely proud as a founder — thanks to Szilárd Pafka, organizer of DataScience.LA, who urged me last year at useR! 2013 to start a Hungarian R meetup.

This spring, I was thinking about inviting an international guest speaker to celebrate the increasing success and popularity of the R community, and I made a lucky hit:

Any local useR group in europe where I can come talk about Rcpp11 in april or may ?
— Romain François (@romain_francois) April 8, 2014

After a few mails with Romain, everything was set, and we agreed on to have an Rcpp11 talk in the near future at Budapest, Hungary:

@romain_francois will give a talk on Rcpp11 at the Budapest Users of R Network exactly in 3 months http://t.co/a2YAaDZ6BY #rstats #rcpp #RUG
— r-projekt.hu (@R_projekt) June 3, 2014

I really enjoyed Romain’s talk, which was not only useful for the 50+ attendees, but it was also fun even for the novice R users. Please find a Hungarian summary with bunch of photos at r-projekt.hu (the Hungarian R site), or head directly to the recording of the talk in English:



And now I am extremely happy to announce our next speaker:

The next speaker at the Hungarian #rstats User Group will be @MattDowle, author of the data.table package: http://t.co/zMhfLqL7Ko #RUG
— r-projekt.hu (@R_projekt) October 25, 2014

So I suggest you to RSVP now to reserve your seat, and join us on the 27th of November at Budapest, where Matt Dowle will give a very exciting talk on fast and flexible data manipulation. Besides an authentic introduction to data.table, free pizzas and beers will be also provided as usual 🙂