Mango Solutions are pleased to announce their sponsorship of two new R user groups – ZurichR and GenevaR. Similar to our well established LondonR (www.londonr.org)  and BaselR (www.baselr.org)  groups, these free, informal meetings will be open to all R users and followers  and will include some interesting presentations as well as the opportunity to meet and network with other R enthusiasts over a drink.  The meetings will be run on a quarterly basis . Details of the inaugural ZurichR and GenevaR meetings are as follows: ZurichR (www.zurichr.org) Date: Wednesday MARCH 9^th Venue: TECHNOPARK® Zurich, Technoparkstrasse 1, 8005 Zurich (Meeting Room: Newton 1011, 1. OG) Time: 6.30pm – 9.30pm (Presentations begin at 7pm) The presentations will be as follows:

• KNIME and R – Thomas Gabriel, KNIME
• The Hull, the Feasible Set and the Risk Surface: Portfolio Design Infrastructure in R/Rmetrics – Diethelm Würtz, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
• R with COM: the dark side of .NET – John James, Mango Solutions

GenevaR (www.geneva-r.org) Date: Wednesday MARCH 23rd Venue: Hotel Cornavin, 23 blvd James Fazy, Gare de Cornavin, Geneva 1201 (Salle 1) Time: 6.30pm – 9.30pm (Presentations begin at 7pm) Presentations to be confirmed shortly.