As first reported by Paolo, the new R journal is out! You can Download the complete issue from here.  Refereed articles may be downloaded individually using the links [Read more...]

(by Trevor Hastie) Glmnet_1.8 uploaded to CRAN – This is a major revision, with two additional models included. 1) Multiresponse regression – [Read more...]

Hadley Wickham, the creator of ggplot2, will present his course “Visualization in R with ggplot2,” online at Statistics.com, July 20 – Aug 17. Upcoming “R” courses, [Read more...]

Dear All, we have released version 0.6 of the igraph package today. This is a major new version, with a lot of new features, and (sadly) it is not completely compatible with [Read more...]

Bill Venables talks R :: Augsburg University, Germany :: 2-3 July 2012 Bill Venables will give a two-day R Workshop in Augsburg on the 2nd and 3rd July 2012, an expanded [Read more...]

  Hadley Wickham teaches “Programming in R – Advanced,” June 15 – July 13 online at Statistics.com. This is the third in a series of courses that cover [Read more...]

(A guest post by Hadley Wickham) Hi all, I’m going to be teaching an R development master classes in NYC June 21-12 and in the Bay Area June 28-29. The basic idea of [Read more...]

Two R User Group meetings are happening soon thanks to the support of Mango-solutions (one of R-bloggers’ long term sponsors).  Details below:   [Read more...]

*** Call for Late-breaking Posters *** Abstracts may be submitted for posters presenting recent developments and late-breaking applications of R, on topics as indicated in [Read more...]

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...]

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...]