Guest post by Hrishikesh (Rick) D. Vinod, Professor of Economics, Fordham University. Theil (1968) proposed a transformation of regression residuals so that they are best, [Read more...]

The R User Conference, useR! 2014 is scheduled for July 1-3, 2014 at the University of California, Los Angeles. Before the official program, half-day tutorials will be [Read more...]

Guest post by Vivian Zhang, original post. You can sign up for our Sunday Intensive beginner level R classes at NYC Data Science Academy meetup page or [Read more...]

  Mango Solutions are pleased to announce the forthcoming free user group meetings for R users and enthusiasts. All meetings are free to attend and consist of a few R [Read more...]

We are pleased to announce details of the next New Jersey R meeting; this is a free event open to anyone using or interested in using R. Venue:  Hilton Woodbridge, 120 Wood [Read more...]

This is a guest post by Todd Schneider and the original link [Read more...]

Statistics.com, a provider of online education in statistics and analytics, announces a partnership with CrowdANALYTIX, a predictive modeling “managed [Read more...]

Mango Solutions are pleased to announce a free R Graphics Workshop in Copenhagen on Monday 26th August (6-8pm). The workshop is open to all and any interested R users or [Read more...]

In my June 25 post I described R- (i) code to change scale without changing the mean, and (ii) code to make a probability distribution symmetric by modifying order [Read more...]

The new R Journal is out! Click for a complete table of content with links to all papers. [Read more...]

R code for changing scale without changing mean or to make a probability distribution symmetric. These are commonly encountered problems by R programmers. We provide code for both of these tasks in the context of maximum entropy bootstrap (meboot) package in R. [Read more...]

The next LondonR meeting takes place on the 16 July and registrations have already exceeded 200. Presentations at the meeting will be made by Rich Pugh of Mango Solutions, [Read more...]

This is the question that Hadley Wickham recently set out to discovering by asking frequent R and plyr users how they use it in an online survey. Once a decent number of [Read more...]

(By Hadley Wickham) Hi all, I’d like to let you know about four R training courses that RStudio will be offering in December: * Effective data visualization [Read more...]

Mango Solutions are pleased to announce the forthcoming R user Group meetings that they will be hosting or participating in.  To attend, please see the registration [Read more...]

Editor’s note: R-bloggers does not take a political side. Since this is an important topic, this post has the comments turned on. Also, If you wish to write a reply [Read more...]

Mango Solutions host BaselR, a free, open and informal R user group for those using or interested in using R. There will be a few short R related presentations and an [Read more...]

(by Dimitris Rizopoulos) Dear R-users, I’d like to announce the release of version 1.0-0 of package JM (already available from CRAN) for the joint modeling of [Read more...]