Announced this morning on the r-announce mailing list is the impending release of R 2.11.0, scheduled for April 22. As usual, the release soon goes into a beta-test phase, with updated sources to be available on the 22nd and binaries to follow a few days thereafter.
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SPSS Co-Founder Tex Hull Joins REvolution Computing
We're proud to announce that Tex Hull, who together with REvolution CEO Norman Nie created the first version of SPSS, has joined the REvolution team. Tex will be working with Norman and our CTO David Champagne to take REvolution R Enterprise to the next level, specifically to improve its scalability to handle very large data sets. You can read...
Seminar: Statistical Methods for DNA Resequencing Analysis in Disease-Gene Studies
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series: Statistical Methods for DNA Resequencing Analysis in Disease-Gene Studies Wenyi Wang, Ph.D., Faculty Candidate Stanford Genome Technology Center, UC Berkeley Statistics 2:00-3:00pm Monday, Februa...
Regression Modeling Strategies Course by Frank Harrell
Frank Harrell is teaching his 3-session short course on regression modeling strategies using R here at Vanderbilt next month. Frank is a professor and chair of the Vanderbilt Biostatistics Department, and the author of several massively popular R libra...
R creators win prestigious Statistical Computing and Graphics Award
The American Statistical Association recently created a new, bi-annual award to to recognize an individual or team for innovation in computing, software, or graphics that has had a great impact on statistical practice or research. The committee has just announced the winner (or in this, joint winners) of the first award: Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka, for their work...
Robert Gentleman joins REvolution’s board of directors
We're so excited here at REvolution Computing to announce that Robert Gentleman has joined our board of directors. Robert is one of the two originators of the R Project: a research project between Robert and Ross Ihaka in 1996 was the genesis of the R language. (Both Robert and Ross were profiled in an article in the New York...
R 2.10.1 released
The latest update to R, R 2.10.1, is now available for download in source form from your local CRAN mirror. Binary versions (for Mac, Windows, and Linux) will become available over the next few days. As a maintenance release, this update focuses on minor changes and bug fixes. The complete list of changes is available in the NEWS file,...
Seminar: Reproducible Research with R, LaTeX, & Sweave
Theresa Scott, instructor of the previously mentioned R workshop and weekly R clinic, is giving a lecture entitled "Reproducible Research with R, LaTeX, & Sweave" in MRB III, room 1220, this Wednesday 11/18 at 1:30. You can see more details about the lecture here. Looks like her slides as well as much more introductory material on R, Latex, and Sweave...
Weekly R Clinic
For readers at Vanderbilt: At yesterday's R course I found out that Theresa Scott in the Biostatistics department holds a weekly R clinic and encourages new R users who want to learn more to bring any questions about R, or even your own code and data. The R clinic is held weekly on Thursday from 2:00-3:00 in MCN....
Free one-day R course at Vanderbilt
The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center is offering a free (repeat, free) one-day introductory course to the R statistical computing language on June 23, taught by Theresa Scott from the department of Biostatistics. You can find contact/registration info at the link below.Vanderbilt Kennedy Center - An Introduction to the Fundamentals & Functionality of the R LanguageIn case you missed it,...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
