Apologies for cross-posting We would like to announce a 3 day course: "R programming for beginners". When: 10-12 January 2005 (Monday-Wednesday). Location: The Ythan hotel in Newburgh (UK). Newburgh is a small coastal village 10 miles north of Aberdeen airport. Host: Organised by Highland Statistics Ltd. Price: 500 Euro for 3 days, excluding 17.5% VAT. The course fee includes a copy of "Introductory Statistics with R" by P. Dalgaard. You will need to bring you own laptop. Accommodation is available at the Ythan hotel at a special rate of 30 UK pounds per night (including breakfast). Early booking is essential! In this course, we teach how to use and program in the software package R. It is also relevant for S-Plus users who wish to learn script programming. The book "Introductory Statistics with R" from Peter Dalgaard is used as course material. We discuss how to import data into R, define vectors and nominal variables, make exploratory graphs, and apply ANOVA and linear regression. We assume that course attendants are familiar with the basic aspects of regression and ANOVA. Course attendants are encouraged to bring their own data. There is only place for 10 people on this course. Registration: http://www.brodgar.com/statscourse.htm Kind regards, Alain Zuur Dr. Alain F. Zuur Highland Statistics Ltd. 6 Laverock road UK - AB41 6FN Newburgh Tel: 0044 1358 788177 Email: highstat at highstat.com URL: www.highstat.com URL: www.brodgar.com (Brodgar complies with R GNU license) Our 5-day statistics course: "Analysing Biological and Environmental Field data" Brodgar: Software for multivariate analysis and multivariate time series analysis Statistical consultancy, courses, data analysis and software