As posted by Dirk Eddelbuettel on R-SIG-Finance: R / Finance 2010: Applied Finance with R April 16 & 17, Chicago, IL, US The second annual R / Finance conference for applied finance using R, the premier free software system for statistical comput...
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Introduction to R webinar today, slides available
Just a quick reminder that I'll be hosting an introductory webinar about R today, The R Project: Data Analysis and Statistical Graphics for the Enterprise. It's at 9AM Pacific, so you might still have time to register for the live session at the link below. Otherwise, if you did catch the live session, you can pick up the slides...
User Group news: DC and Philly
There's a new local R User Group starting up in Philadelphia. Alex McClung and Jeremy Leipzig have set up a website for the Philly UseR Group to get things started, so if you're in the area join up and tell them what you'd like from the group. Also, the DC UseR Group is seeing renewed activity after a hiatus...
UseR 2010 and commercial applications of R
Preparations are well underway for the annual R user conference useR! 2010, to be held at NIST (about 25 miles outside of Washington, DC) July 20-23. This meeting is a true user conference: almost all of the presentations at the conference are contributed by ordinary R users. So, to continue the success of previous years the conference committee needs...
New UseR group in Seattle, WA
There's a new local R user group to add to the list. The latest addition is in Seattle, WA and the first meeting of the Seattle useR Group is tomorrow. The group is organized by Zack Stednick (a data analyst and R user at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle), and this meeting is hosted by my...
Introduce your friends to R
R has gotten quite a lot of exposure recently. It started with the feature article in the New York Times last January, but since then there's been a steady flow of articles about R in analyst reports, on blogs, in YouTube videos, on Twitter, as well as in the general news media. As a result, a lot of new...
Quick thoughts on “R-Powered Web Apps”
Good session at last nights Bay Area UseR Group meeting on R-Powered Web Apps. First of all, there's clearly a lot of interest in using R in Web-based applications: although the program was only announced a week ago, more than 100 people showed up for the talks from Jeff Horner and Jeroen Oons. Second, the Twitter offices are very...
Bay Area User Group: R-Powered Web Apps
For those in the San Francisco area, tomorrow night's Bay Area R User Group meeting -- to be held at Twitter's HQ -- is a must-see. The theme is "R-Powered Web Apps" and features guest speakers Jeroen Ooms and Jeff Horner. (Disclosure: REvolution Computing is sponsoring Jeroen's appearance at this event.) We've featured Jeroen's awesome web-based applications using R...
R/Finance 2010, April 16-17 in Chicago
Today is the last day to submit abstracts for the R/Finance 2010 conference to be held in Chicago on April 16-17. If you're not planning on speaking, but are interested in applications of R in Finance, be sure to add this to your calendar -- last year's conference was an outstanding event. Here's some more information about the conference...
Singapore, February 19-20: Computational Topics in Finance
With all of the winter snows in the US this weekend, a trip to equatorial climes sounds pretty good right about now. That makes this email announcement from Rmetrics leader Diethelm Wuertz all the more tempting: Conference on 'Computational Topics in Finance' February 19/20, 2010, National University of Singapore Dear R/Rmetrics Community, We would like to announce the first...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
