R help - Sep 2008 - Programming Workshops

Good morning
 
Does R (or R users) have a formal training workshop/facility?  Or do
open-source softwares generally put the onus on the user to learn
programming techniques?  
 
Are the workshops generally offered for the masses or is there one-on-one
training available?  
 
Does one "go to" R for programming training ... or do R workshops
travel
around the country?
 
Thanks for your time.  
 
Darin Brooks
Geomatics/GIS/Remote Sensing Coordinator
Kim Forest Management Ltd. Cranbrook Office
Cranbrook, BC
www.kfm.ca <http://www.kfm.ca/> 
 
 

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No but there are various groups/organizations/??? who from time to time offer
courses sometimes presented by R experts and R Core developers or package
developers .

A search of the R-help archives should bring up some of these. 
RSiteSearch("course") will bring up some examples that may h



--- On Tue, 9/30/08, Darin Brooks <kfmgis at telus.net> wrote:
> From: Darin Brooks <kfmgis at telus.net>
> Subject: [R] Programming Workshops
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Received: Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 1:02 PM
> Good morning
>  
> Does R (or R users) have a formal training
> workshop/facility?  Or do
> open-source softwares generally put the onus on the user to
> learn
> programming techniques?  
>  
> Are the workshops generally offered for the masses or is
> there one-on-one
> training available?  
>  
> Does one "go to" R for programming training ...
> or do R workshops travel
> around the country?
>  
> Thanks for your time.  
>  
> Darin Brooks
> Geomatics/GIS/Remote Sensing Coordinator
> Kim Forest Management Ltd. Cranbrook Office
> Cranbrook, BC
> www.kfm.ca <http://www.kfm.ca/> 
>  
>  
> 
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On 9/30/2008 1:02 PM, Darin Brooks wrote:
> Good morning
>  
> Does R (or R users) have a formal training workshop/facility?  Or do
> open-source softwares generally put the onus on the user to learn
> programming techniques?  
>  
> Are the workshops generally offered for the masses or is there one-on-one
> training available?  
>  
> Does one "go to" R for programming training ... or do R workshops
travel
> around the country?
The R Foundation doesn't offer any workshops, but there are lots of 
workshops and training sessions offered by various groups.  For example, 
useR meetings (which occur about once a year, this year's was in 
Dortmund in August) generally include a number of tutorials.  The 
Bioconductor project (www.bioconductor.org) offers a number of workshops 
each year.  And there are commercial offerings (e.g. by XL Solutions, 
http://www.xlsolutions-corp.com/).

Duncan Murdoch