Re: [R] R User Group listings

2009-08-06 Thread Friedrich Leisch
On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:30:50 -0400, Prof John C Nash (PJCN) wrote: Better ideas should prevail. There is now a wiki page at http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=rugs:r_user_groups. It is not yet fully populated. (David Smith's blog at REvolution Computing mentions more

Re: [R] R User Group listings

2009-08-06 Thread Martin Maechler
FrL == Friedrich Leisch friedrich.lei...@stat.uni-muenchen.de on Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:38:03 +0200 writes: On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:30:50 -0400, Prof John C Nash (PJCN) wrote: Better ideas should prevail. There is now a wiki page at

Re: [R] R User Group listings

2009-08-06 Thread Friedrich Leisch
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:54:26 +0200, Martin Maechler (MM) wrote: FrL == Friedrich Leisch friedrich.lei...@stat.uni-muenchen.de on Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:38:03 +0200 writes: FrL Excellent, thanks a lot. I'll add a link to the menu of FrL the R homepage. Really? Should this be more

Re: [R] R User Group listings

2009-08-06 Thread Jim Porzak
Fritz, Thanks for link in News! Looking forward to link in Misc. (I agree with on par concept) John, To address how do we get started questions - how about a sub-page on R wiki where we can post what we've learned some of issues encountered? Best, Jim Porzak Ancestry.com San Francisco, CA

Re: [R] R User Group listings

2009-08-01 Thread Friedrich Leisch
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:45:38 -0400, Prof John C Nash (PJCN) wrote: Further to my posting about R UG mailing lists etc., and David Smith's post about the list he is maintaining (I was aware of his blog, but not that he was updating -- good show), I'm in communication with him to try

Re: [R] R User Group listings

2009-08-01 Thread Prof. John C Nash
Why not! Looks like there were several conversations going on independently at UseR about this. I'll put up a page and then ask Martin to adjust the link. JN Friedrich Leisch wrote: On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:45:38 -0400, Prof John C Nash (PJCN) wrote: Further to my posting about R UG

Re: [R] R User Group listings

2009-08-01 Thread Prof. John C Nash
Better ideas should prevail. There is now a wiki page at http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=rugs:r_user_groups. It is not yet fully populated. (David Smith's blog at REvolution Computing mentions more groups.) JN __ R-help@r-project.org

Re: [R] R User Group listings

2009-07-31 Thread Prof. John C Nash
Further to my posting about R UG mailing lists etc., and David Smith's post about the list he is maintaining (I was aware of his blog, but not that he was updating -- good show), I'm in communication with him to try to ensure we get appropriate information out to useRs. Already there has

Re: [R] R User Group listings

2009-07-30 Thread Prof. John C Nash
There are now several R geographic user groups, and a few have mailing lists on the R mailing list system. Thanks to Martin M, there's also a pointer to a page I'm maintaining to list/describe the groups. The page is at http://macnash.telfer.uottawa.ca/RUG.html Contact me if you have a

Re: [R] R User Group listings

2009-07-30 Thread Armin Goralczyk
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Prof. John C Nashnas...@uottawa.ca wrote: There are now several R geographic user groups, and a few have mailing lists on the R mailing list system. Thanks to Martin M, there's also a pointer to a page I'm maintaining to list/describe the groups. The page is at

Re: [R] R User Group listings

2009-07-30 Thread David M Smith
I've also been maintaining a list at: http://blog.revolution-computing.com/local-r-groups.html The most recent addition is the user group in Japan. # David Smith On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Prof. John C Nash nas...@uottawa.ca wrote: There are now several R geographic user groups, and a