DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING – 8th Annual International R User Conference useR! 2012, Nashville, Tennessee USA Registration Deadlines: Early Registration: Passed Regular [Read more...]

Bellow is the announcement made by Peter Dalgaard: The build system rolled up R-2.15.0.tar.gz (codename “Easter Beagle”) at 9:00 this morning. This is the first [Read more...]

Good news for students wishing to attend the annual useR conference (useR!2012). Through generous sponsor support (ASA, and RStudio), a limited number of student [Read more...]

Google has again accepted R as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code. R has successfully participated in GSoC in multiple previous years, and is excited to be [Read more...]

Statistics.com is offering a new online course, “Survey Analysis in R,” debuts March 23 – April 20, with Dr. Thomas Lumley. Dr. Lumley is the creator of the R package [Read more...]

This announcement was made by Hadley Wickham in the [R-pkgs] mailing list. ———————- # ggplot2 ggplot2 is a plotting system for R, [Read more...]

Guest post:  Statistics.com is offering a list of courses about R from some of the leading experts in their fields.  They offer a $200 discount for anyone who orders any 3 [Read more...]

Summer Program In Data Analysis (SPIDA): May 24th – June 1st, 2012 In its thirteenth season this year, ISR’s Summer Program in Data Analysis focuses on linear models, [Read more...]

Ken Rice and Thomas Lumley will give a course on advanced R programming in two locations this summer. 1. In Edinburgh, June 13-15 (the week before the International [Read more...]

The 8th international R users conference useR! 2012 will be in Nashville TN USA June 12-15 with a special all-day pre-conference course from Bill Venables on June 11. We have [Read more...]

Dear R people, It is a (VERY) rare event that I allow a non-R related content on R-bloggers. Today is one such rare a day. I do this in order to raise awareness of two bills [Read more...]

This is the massage sent by John Fox to the R-pkgs mailing list: Dear R users, I’d like to announce a new version, 1.8-1, of the Rcmdr package. The Rcmdr (“R [Read more...]

The international R User Conference useR! 2012 will be held June 12-15 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, with a pre-conference full-day course offered on [Read more...]

Peter Dalgaard announced today the release of the new R version 2.14.1.  Bellow is the announcement.  For R users who are using windows, I suggest to also have a look at [Read more...]

The new R journal for December 2011 is out! You can Download the complete issue from here, while refereed articles may be downloaded individually using the links below: [Read more...]

(This is a guest post based on Calver, Rob e-mail to the R-help mailing list) We are delighted to announce that our new series of books on R is up and running, with two [Read more...]

Support vector machines (SVM’s) are the “big iron” of the data mining world, especially suited for extreme data intensive tasks like image classification, [Read more...]

The source code to rmongodb (home page at http://cnub.org/rmongodb.ashx), a driver to MongoDB for the R language, has been released as open source [Read more...]

Guest post by Bob Agnew ([email protected]) —————- Introduction Marketing optimization consists of assigning offers to prospects in order to [Read more...]