Posts Tagged ‘ R community ’

Richard Stallman talk+Q&A at the useR! 2010 conference (audio files attached)

July 26, 2010
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The audio files of the full talk by Richard Stallman are attached to the end of this post. —————– Videos of all the invited talks of the useR! 2010 conference can be viewed on the R User Group blog —————– Last week I had the honor of attending the talk given by Richard Stallman, the last keynote speaker on...

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Want to join the closed BETA of a new Statistical Analysis Q&A site – NOW is the time!

July 16, 2010
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The bottom line of this post is for you to go to: Stack Exchange Q&A site proposal: Statistical Analysis And commit yourself to using the website for asking and answering questions. (And also consider giving the contender, MetaOptimize a visit) * * * * Statistical analysis Q&A website is about to go into BETA A month ago I invited...

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A new Q&A website for Data-Analysis (based on StackOverFlow engine) – is waiting for you

June 17, 2010
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A new Q&A website for Data-Analysis (based on StackOverFlow engine) – is waiting for you

What is the StackOverFlow Q&A website about? StackOverFlow.com (“SO” for short) is a programming Q & A site that’s free. Free to ask questions, free to answer questions, free to read. Free, And fast. For the R community, SO offers a growing database of R related questions and answer (click the link to check them out). You might be asking yourself what’s...

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June 20, online Registration deadline for useR! 2010

June 13, 2010
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useR!2010 is coming. I am going to give two talks there (I will write more of that soon), but in the meantime, please note that the online registration deadline is coming to an end. This was published on the R-help mailing list today: ————- The final registration deadline for the R User Conference is June 20, 2010, one week...

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useR-2010 is looking for a T-shirt design

May 19, 2010
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useR-2010 is looking for a T-shirt design

Katharine Mullen has just published on the R mailing list a call for designeRs who might be willing to design a T-shirt aRt design for the shirt that will be given in useR 2010. I consider such contests as one of those good-for-the-community things, and hope regular useRs, R bloggers, and companies that are based on R – will...

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An article attacking R gets responses from the R blogosphere – some reflections

April 16, 2010
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An article attacking R gets responses from the R blogosphere – some reflections

In this post I reflect on the current state of the R blogosphere, and share my hopes for the future

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The “Future of Open Source” Survey – an R user’s thoughts and conclusions

March 23, 2010
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The “Future of Open Source” Survey – an R user’s thoughts and conclusions

Over a month ago, David Smith published a call for people to participate in the “Future of Open Source” Survey. 550 people (and me) took the survey, and today I got an e-mail with the news that the 2010 survey results are analysed and where published in the “Future.Of.Open.Source blog” In the following (38 slides) presentation: I would like...

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Announcing R-bloggers.com: a new R news site (for bloggers by bloggers)

December 9, 2009
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Announcing R-bloggers.com: a new R news site (for bloggers by bloggers)

I already wrote about R-bloggers on the R mailing list, so it only seems fitting to write about it more here. I will explain what R-bloggers is and then move to explain what I hope it will accomplish. R-Bloggers.com is a central hub of content collected from bloggers who write about R (in English) and if

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