UCLA Statistics is hosting three meetup groups that are either straight R (361 members) or R-related (GRASS, which interacts directly with R, and GPGPU, which will look at interfacing R with OpenMP, GCD, OpenCL, CUDA, ...) http://www.meetup.com/LAarea-R-usergroup http://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-Area-GRASS-Users-Group/ http://www.meetup.com/SoCal-GPGPU-and-Commodity-Parallel-Programming-Group/ If you are local SoCal, join, drop in. ==Jan de Leeuw; Distinguished Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; Director: UCLA Center for Environmental Statistics (CES); Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical Software; US mail: 8125 Math Sciences Bldg, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554 phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu .mac: jdeleeuw ++++++ aim: deleeuwjan ++++++ skype: j_deleeuw homepages: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu ++++++ http://www.cuddyvalley.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------