Couple of R programming (mainly infrastructure/workflow) related topics discussed at the Los Angeles R users group in a tutorial/demo-like form (targeted mainly to beginners) by Szilard Pafka and Jeroen Ooms: how easy it is to create a simple package for … Continue reading →

Inspired by the discussions on the same topic, Avram Aelony presented an overview of the issues and the Los Angeles R users group proceeded with further discussions.

by Szilard Pafka Discussions on various software tools (C, C++, Perl, Python, Unix shell, R, Matlab, SAS, SPSS, Excel, databases, Hadoop etc.) used in data analysis. Szilard Pafka (founder and co-organizer of the Los Angeles R users group) presents an … Continue reading →

Los Angeles R users group Dec. 14 2010 meeting (see meetup info here): 1. A SQL primer for R users – Neal Fultz Video and slides will be available soon 2. R Database Access – Shrikrishna Bhogaonker 3. NoSQL data … Continue reading →

Videos from the October meeting “Text Mining with R” of the Los Angeles R users group:Rob Zinkov, “Text Mining with R”:Ryan Rosario, “Accessing R from Python using RPy2″:

During the first part of our meeting, Nicolas Christou gave an introduction of statistical finance in R, and presented a package he co-authored with previous PhD student David Diez (2010). Video of the talk is below: During the second part, … Continue reading →

During the first part of our meeting, Ryan Rosario presented on the topic of large datasets in R. Video, slides and code of the talk “Taking R to the Limit: Large Datasets” by Ryan Rosario at the Los Angeles area … Continue reading →

Video, slides and code of the talk “Taking R to the Limit: Parallelization” by Ryan Rosario at the Los Angeles area R Users Group in July 2010 as follows. Slides: R code: here. Video: If you have a question to … Continue reading →

A nice group of people from academia and industry meeting about once a month at UCLA. Attendance is usually 30-40, but gradually increasing (also about 300 registered members). If you’d like to join, visit the group’s website: http://www.meetup.com/LAarea-R-usergroup/, you’ll find … Continue reading →

Video of the talk “Seamless R and C++ integration” by Dirk Eddelbuettel at the Los Angeles area R Users Group in March 2010 (to see the video in a larger size, click inside the video but outside the play button):

Video of the talk “Web applications with R” by Jeroen Ooms at the Los Angeles area R Users Group in January 2010: