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The next Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for 5 October 2012. All details and the agenda are available on the KölnRUG Meetup site. Please sign up if you would like to come along. Notes from the last Cologne R user group meeting are available ... [Read more...]

The next version of the googleVis package has been released on the project site and CRAN. This version provides updates to the package vignette and a new example for the gvisMerge function. The new sections of the vignette have been featured on this ... [Read more...]

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useR! 2012 is just around the corner. The deadline for talk and poster abstract submissions is today! Submit your abstract here. [Read more...]

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The early registration deadline for useR! 2012 is tomorrow! Visit the Online Registration Website. The fees for registration increase March 1st. [Read more...]

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This popular article references a report by financial consulting firms that makes a fairly convincing argument (even though they mostly neglect inferential statistics, and some parts of their argument are misleading, or otherwise not convincing) that 401(k) participants who accept "help" from financial experts take less risk and have better ... [Read more...]

As prolific as the CRAN website is of packages, there are several packages to R that succeeds in standing out for their wide spread use (and quality), Hadley Wickhams ggplot2 and plyr are two such packages. And today (through twitter) Hadley has updates the rest of us with the news: ... [Read more...]

I was delighted to see the following e-mail post from Dirk Eddelbuettel regarding the google-summer-of-code R google group: * * * Earlier today Google finalised student / mentor pairings and allocations for the Google Summer of Code 2010 (GSoC 2010). The R Project is happy to announce that the following students have been accepted: Colin Rundel, “... [Read more...]

The New York Times had an interesting piece yesterday about how SAS is facing several business threats from companies like the recently IBM-acquired SPSS, and from burgeoning interest in open-source software like R.  The NYT ran an entire article about R earlier this year, and this article discusses how SAS ... [Read more...]

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October 2009 Open Data Group has launched a changed detection project on Google Code, http://code.google.com/p/change-detection/. This is an introduction and demonstration of using open source software and the Data Mining Group’s Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) standard to perform data analytics.  Specifically, we show how ... [Read more...]

The New York Times published this interesting article on how the ability to design and perform computer simulations is a highly marketable skill for careers across many disciplines.In methodology development we use simulation nearly every day. We've developed our own specialized genetic data simulation software, genomeSIMLA, that's freely available ... [Read more...]

Just a little note for german speaking R beginners: There is an introductory course in R (german) available online on the website of the department of methodology and evaluation research at the University of Jena. Dr. Ivailo Partchev holds a seven sess... [Read more...]