UseR! 2011 slides and videos – on one page
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The present and future of the R blogosphere (~7 minute video from useR2011)
This is (roughly) the lightning talk I gave in useR2011. If you are a reader of R-bloggers.com then this talk is not likely to tell you anything new. However, if you have a friend, college or student who is a new useRs of R, this talk will offer him ... [Read more...]
Calling R lovers and bloggers – to work together on “The R Programming wikibook”
This post is a call for both R community members and R-bloggers, to come and help make The R Programming wikibook be amazing. The R Programming wikibook is not just another one of the many free books about statistics/R, it is a community project which aims to create a ... [Read more...]
Call for proposals for writing a book about R (via Chapman & Hall/CRC)
Rob Calver wrote an interesting invitation on the R mailing list today, inviting potential authors to submit their vision of the next great book about R. The announcement originated from the Chapman & Hall/CRC publishing houses, backed up by an impressive team of R celebrities, chosen as the editors of ... [Read more...]
R-bloggers in 2010: Top 14 R posts, site statistics and invitation for sponsors
A year ago (on December 9th 2009), I wrote about founding R-bloggers.com, an (unofficial) online R journal written by bloggers who agreed to contribute their R articles to the site. In this post I wish to celebrate R-bloggers’ first birthday by sharing with you: Links to the top 14 posts of 2010 ... [Read more...]
A competition to recommend “relevant” R packages – and the future of R
Update: the competition was just launched. * * * What is the competition about? Drew Conway and John Myles Whyte have collected data from (52) R users about the packages they have installed. The data is now available on github for download and the contest will be run on the kaggle platform. For more ... [Read more...]
R syntax highlighting for bloggers on WordPress.com
Announcing the ability to highlight R syntax in WordPress.com blogs, thanks to the recent work of Yihui Xie, Yoav Farhi and Andrew Redd. [Read more...]
Open source and money – why paying R developers might not always help the project
This post can be summed up by one two sentences: “We can’t buy love.” “Starting to pay for love could make it disappear” while at the same time “We need money to live and love”. These two conflicting forces, with relation to open source, are the topic of this ... [Read more...]
Blogging about R – presentation and audio
At the useR!2010 conference I had the honor of giving a (~15 minute) talk titled “Blogging about R”. The following is the abstract I submited, followed by the slides of the talk and the audio file of a recording I made of the talk (I am sad it got a bit ... [Read more...]
Richard Stallman talk+Q&A at the useR! 2010 conference (audio files attached)
The audio files of the full talk by Richard Stallman are attached to the end of this post. —————– Videos of all the invited talks of the useR! 2010 conference can be viewed on the R User Group blog —————– Last week I had the honor of attending the talk given by Richard ... [Read more...]
Want to join the closed BETA of a new Statistical Analysis Q&A site – NOW is the time!
The bottom line of this post is for you to go to: Stack Exchange Q&A site proposal: Statistical Analysis And commit yourself to using the website for asking and answering questions. (And also consider giving the contender, MetaOptimize a visit) * * * * Statistical analysis Q&A website is about to go ... [Read more...]
A new Q&A website for Data-Analysis (based on StackOverFlow engine) – is waiting for you
What is the StackOverFlow Q&A website about?
StackOverFlow.com (“SO” for short) is a programming Q & A site that’s free. Free to ask questions, free to answer questions, free to read. Free, And fast.
For the R community, SO offers a growing database of R related questions and ... [Read more...]
June 20, online Registration deadline for useR! 2010
useR!2010 is coming. I am going to give two talks there (I will write more of that soon), but in the meantime, please note that the online registration deadline is coming to an end. This was published on the R-help mailing list today: ————- The final registration deadline for the ... [Read more...]
useR-2010 is looking for a T-shirt design
Katharine Mullen has just published on the R mailing list a call for designeRs who might be willing to design a T-shirt aRt design for the shirt that will be given in useR 2010. I consider such contests as one of those good-for-the-community things, and hope regular useRs, R bloggers, and ...
An article attacking R gets responses from the R blogosphere – some reflections
In this post I reflect on the current state of the R blogosphere, and share my hopes for the future [Read more...]
The “Future of Open Source” Survey – an R user’s thoughts and conclusions
Over a month ago, David Smith published a call for people to participate in the “Future of Open Source” Survey. 550 people (and me) took the survey, and today I got an e-mail with the news that the 2010 survey results are analysed and where published in the “Future.Of.Open.Source ... [Read more...]
Announcing R-bloggers.com: a new R news site (for bloggers by bloggers)
I already wrote about R-bloggers on the R mailing list, so it only seems fitting to write about it more here. I will explain what R-bloggers is and then move to explain what I hope it will accomplish.
R-Bloggers.com is a central hub of content collected from bloggers who ... [Read more...]
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