Last year, the first French-speaking R conference, “Rencontres R“  was held in Bordeaux.  The meeting was a great success, and a second one will be  held in Lyon on 27 and 28 June 2013. The abstract submission deadline of 7 … Continue reading →

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Statistical Practice in Epidemiology with R is a one week course aimed at promoting the use of R among epidemiologists. This annual course has been running almost every year since 2004. This year, the course will take place from 23 … Continue reading →

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Xavier Fernández i Marín, who maintains the jags package on Gentoo Linux, writes to tell me he is developing the R package ggmcmc. This package is for visualizing Markov Chain Monte Carlo output using ggplot2 graphics and  should complement the … Continue reading →

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Andrew Gelman has announced the release of Stan version 1.0.0 and its R interface RStan.  Stan – named after Stanislaw Ulam, the inventor of the Monte Carlo method – is a new MCMC program that represents a major technological leap … Continue reading →

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Statistical Practice in Epidemiology with R is a one week course aimed at promoting the use of R among epidemiologists.  This annual course has been running almost every year since 2004. Last year it took place in Lyon, France, but … Continue reading →

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If you are looking for a post-doctoral position in statistical computing in 2012 then you may be able to help me with rewriting the coda package for R.  But if you are interested, you don’t have much time to apply.The … Continue reading →

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The patch release, 3.1.0  fixes a problem due to a change in the way the adapt command works (and the adapt() function in rjags).  If the model has an adaptive phase, you should normally include a burn in period (with … Continue reading →

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Somewhat later than I originally planned, JAGS 3.0.0 is released and can be downloaded from Sourceforge.  The corresponding R interface package rjags has been uploaded to CRAN There are no new modules or features in this release. I have been … Continue reading →

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This is a long running course which usually takes place in Tartu, Estonia. This year we are hosting it at IARC in Lyon, France. The course is intended for epidemiologists and statisticians who wish to use R  for statistical modelling … Continue reading →

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Version 2.2.0 of the rjags package for R is now available on CRAN. Previously, the version of rjags for Mac (2.1.0) was incompatible with the latest release of the JAGS library (2.2.0).  Let me know if you have any further … Continue reading →

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