Announcing the ICPSR Summer Program Workshop "The R Statistical Computing Environment: The Basics and Beyond" View this announcement in your browser: http://eepurl.com/TEGH5 The R Statistical Computing Environment: The Basics and Beyond Dates: June 23-27, 2014 URL: http://bit.ly/1mXqVqU Location: Berkeley, CA Instructor: John Fox, McMaster University About this workshop: This five-day workshop will introduce R, a free, open-source implementation of the S language that is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix/Linux systems. The R statistical programming language and computing environment has become the de facto standard for writing statistical software among statisticians. In the past few years, it has also made substantial inroads in the social sciences. R makes routine data analysis easy and supports convenient programming. Users of R have taken advantage of its extensibility to contribute more than 5,000 freely available "packages" of documented R programs and data to CRAN (the Comprehensive R Archive Network) and many others to the Bioconductor package archive. R is also particularly capable in the area of statistical graphics. Each day of the workshop will combine four to five hours of lectures and demonstrations with two to three hours of hands-on labs. We will begin with an introduction to R, including statistical modeling in R -- in effect, using R as a statistical package. After that, the workshop will provide the background required to use R seriously for sophisticated data analysis, programming, and presentation. About the ICPSR Summer Program The ICPSR Summer Program is internationally recognized as the preeminent resource for basic and advanced training in social science research methodologies and technologies. We offer courses in research design, quantitative reasoning, statistical methods, and data processing. Our goal is to integrate methods of quantitative analysis within a broader context of substantive social research. More Information For more information, including a complete list of courses, registration information, and scholarships, please visit our website at icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog. You can also contact the Summer Program at (734) 763-7400 or sumprog at icpsr.umich.edu ------------------------------------------------------- John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com