We are happy to inform you that the online abstract submission and registration for `useR! 2009' is now available online from http://www.R-project.org/useR-2009/ This meeting of the R user community will take place at Agrocampus, Rennes, France, July 8 to 10, 2000. The conference schedule comprises invited lectures and user-contributed sessions as well as half-day tutorials presented by R experts on July 7, 2009, prior to the conference. Invited speakers will include Adele Cutler, Peter Dalgaard, Jerome H. Friedman, Michael Greenacre, Trevor Hastie, John Storey, Martin Theus. The spectrum of user-contributed sessions will depend on your submissions. Hence, we invite you to submit abstracts for a talk or a poster on topics presenting innovations or exciting applications of R. The call for papers along with the link to the online abstract submission is available at http://www.R-project.org/useR-2009/#Call Before the start of the official program, half-day tutorials will be offered on Tuesday, July 7. A list of topics and speakers can be found at http://www.R-project.org/useR-2009/tutorials/ The deadline for early registration and to submit an abstract is February 27th 2009, so now is the perfect time to write and submit an abstract, register as a participant and plan your trip to Rennes (Rennes will be busy at the conference time because the cultural event `Festival Les tomb?es de la nuit' will take place at the same time, so we recommend to book as soon as possible). The conference web page http://www.agrocampus-ouest.fr/math/useR-2009/accomodation.html gives a list of hotels and some student rooms (200) are also available on the campus. We hope to meet you in Rennes! The conference committee, Julie Josse, Fran?ois Husson, David Causeur, Maela Kloareg, S?bastien L?, Aline Legrand, Eric Matzner-Lober & J?r?me Pag?s _______________________________________________ R-announce at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-announce