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...]

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...]

Guest post to R-bloggers by Dr Kris Boudt. ——————– R has always been my favorite language to forecast financial risk in my research [Read more...]

(Re-posted from a post made by Hadley Wickham to the [R-pkgs] mailing list) # About the stringr package Strings are not glamorous, high-profile components of R, but they do [Read more...]

This is a guest post by Kyle Stokley. ————— My name is Kyle and I am an IT recruiter for R-Square.  I currently have an opening in Durham NC [Read more...]

A guest post by Christian Reusch giving a book review for the book “Financial Risk Forecasting” by Jon Danielsson. ———– As an [Read more...]

An interested PR piece I got from Janet Dobbins: ————— Luis Torgo is teaching an online course, “Data Mining in R: Learning with Case [Read more...]

(A guest post by Camiel de Koning) ————– When trying to replicate, verify or extend empirical research of others, a researcher generally [Read more...]

John Fox will be teaching a two-day introductory R workshop at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, on May 24 and 25. The workshop will largely be based on materials [Read more...]

(Guest post on R-bloggers by Charlie Sharpsteen) Cameron and I are pleased to announce version 0.6.0 of the tikzDevice package which should be available shortly at your local [Read more...]

Robert Muenchen, the author of R for SAS and SPSS Users (A great book I’m proud to have on my shelf), has published this week an article in which he compares the [Read more...]