This post was originally shared on the R Consortium blog.Almost 200 people from 19 countries registered for the first satRday conference which was held last Saturday, September 3rd, in Budapest. The final count showed that nearly 170 R users spent 12 hours at the conference venue attending workshops, regular and lighting talks, social ... [Read more...]
There's only one week left until the very first satRdays event all around the world!This is a very exciting project with great interest from the R and more general data science community -- in the past short 2 months (since we opened registration for the conference):More than 160 persons signed ... [Read more...]
As you probably already know, satRdays are go -- and the location of the first three events in the series is now also decided:
Budapest, Hungary
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Cape Town, South Africa
To help to organize such community-driven, regional R conferences or simply to get more details about ... [Read more...]
As you probably already know, satRdays are go -- and the location of the first three events in the series is now also decided:Budapest, HungarySan Juan, Puerto RicoCape Town, South AfricaTo help to organize such community-driven, regional R conferences...
Steph Locke has already written about this last week, so just a quick follow-up on R-bloggers to share the great news with a wider audience: the R Consortium agreed to the support satRdays!A quick reminder on the project:satRdays are SQLSaturday-i...
Steph Locke has already written about this last week, so just a quick follow-up on R-bloggers to share the great news with a wider audience: the R Consortium agreed to the support satRdays!
A quick reminder on the project:
satRdays are SQLSaturday-inspired, community-driven, one-day, free or very cheap and regional ... [Read more...]
This is the 12th year Google offering grants to students living (almost) anywhere in the world for working on various open-source projects at the summer, and R was again selected as a GSoC mentor organization, just like in eg 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 or 2015.In short, Google offers $5,000 to the accepted students to work ... [Read more...]
This is the 12th year Google offering grants to students living (almost) anywhere in the world for working on various open-source projects at the summer, and R was again selected as a GSoC mentor organization, just like in eg 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011,&nb...
It's been only around 2 months since the idea of community-driven R conferences was born, when Steph Locke first talked publicly about this cool conception, but I am pretty sure we will be able to attend at least one or two satRdays in 2016 -- as the project received many and very ... [Read more...]
It's been only around 2 months since the idea of community-driven R conferences was born, when Steph Locke first talked publicly about this cool conception, but I am pretty sure we will be able to attend at least one or two satRdays in 2016 -- as the project received many and very ...
I am always very happy to attend local R meetups and international R conferences, as these are great opportunities to
meet other R users, developers, rock stars and friends from all around the world/GH/SO/Twitter etc,
listen to inspiring presentations,
have fun at lightning talks and
give birth ... [Read more...]
I am always very happy to attend local R meetups and international R conferences, as these are great opportunities tomeet other R users, developers, rock stars and friends from all around the world/GH/SO/Twitter etc, listen to inspiring presentati...
Sorry about the noisy post title, but it happens to be the name of the book I was working on in the past year, which has been just published at Packt:
Although I do not think that reading this ~400 page book will turn everyone into a true master of R ... [Read more...]
Sorry about the noisy post title, but it happens to be the name of the book I was working on in the past year, which has been just published at Packt:Although I do not think that reading this ~400 page book will turn everyone into a true master of R ...
Last year, I was extremely happy to see the great success of the R community -- dominating the Budapest BI Forum 2014 with 8 talks and 2 workshops on introductory and some hard-core R topics:"My Journey to R" plenary talk and "Fast and flexible data wr...
A new version of pander was just released on CRAN with 200+ commits of new features, major performance updates and some minor fixes [changelog]. One of the minor technical changes, which might be major good news for the knitr users, is that there is no further need to specify asis in ...
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 ...
Hadley Wickham opened my eyes that calling pander to generate nifty markdown tables inside of knitr requires a special chunk option, which bothersome extra step might be saved by updating pander a bit. So it's done.In a nutshell, whenever you...