The latest local R user group to join the fold is CinDay RUG, serving the Cincinnati/Dayton area in Ohio. The group was founded by Stu Rodgers, who decided to set it up after posting a query on LinkedIn and finding several other R users in the area. Even if ... [Read more...]

The latest local R user group to form is located in Houston, Texas. The first meeting of the Houston R Users Group is tonight at Rice University (in conjunction with the Houston chapter of the ASA). R hackr (typo intended!) Hadley Wickham will be giving a presentation on writing R ... [Read more...]

Canadian R user Leo Guelman contacted me last week to ask if there was an R User Group in Toronto. There wasn't one last week, but there's one now: Leo has taken the initiative to start a new useR group. The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) R User's Group is now ... [Read more...]

There are now four -- count 'em, four -- local R user groups in Australia, with the addition of the latest group in Brisbane, Queensland. GRUB (Group for R Users in Brisbane) is just getting started and doesn't have a meeting scheduled yet, but if you're in the vicinity why ... [Read more...]

Folks in the New Jersey area no longer need to trek over to New York City to meet other R users. Now there's NewJerseyR, a new R user group put together by Mango Solutions. The first meeting will in Iselin on September 16, with speakers from Mango, Pfizer, and Bristol Myers ... [Read more...]

We have two new local R user groups to report this week. In Seoul, South Korea R user Chel Hee Lee is the organizer of the GNU R User's Group and Open Statistics Project in Korea. My translate-fu isn't quite up to figuring out when the next meeting is, but ... [Read more...]

New local R user groups keep on popping up on a regular basis, which is great to see. The latest one is deep in SAS territory: it's the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill R Users Group in They don't have any meetings scheduled just yet (but when they do their gracious meetup hosts ... [Read more...]

There's yet another R user group starting, this time in Singapore. Their first meetup is next week, on Wednesday August 25. If you're in Singapore, come along and meet your fellow R users! meetup.com: R User Group - SG [Read more...]

For anyone who missed the useR! 2010 conference in Gaithersburg last month (or just wants to revisit some of the amazing talks), you can now find slides from many of the contributed presentations available for download. (Look for the [S] link to download slides.) The presentations from the Revolution team members ... [Read more...]

There's another new R user group on the US West Coast, this time in Portland, Oregon. The Portland R User Group will hold their first meeting at the Lucky Labrador Brew Pub on Tuesday, August 17. If you're in the Portland/Vancouver area, come along for beeRs and conversation with other ... [Read more...]