R help - Mar 2011 - setting up a R working group

Dear R users,

we are currently trying to set up a R working group at Swansea University.
I would be very grateful to get some information and feedback from R 
users that have done something similar, in particular regarding:

- help with giving a general overview of what R is capable of
- help with what to present or teach (did you organise your own training 
programme or did you get someone from outside?)
- are there people out there who would like to present their work to us?

Any help will be highly appreciated!
Thanks Joanne

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Joanne Demmler Ph.D.
Research Assistant
College of Medicine
Swansea University
Singleton Park
Swansea SA2 8PP
UK
tel: 		+44 (0)1792 295674
fax: 		+44 (0)1792 513430
email: 		j.demmler at swansea.ac.uk
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On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Joanne Demmler <J.Demmler at
swansea.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear R users,
Hi
>
> we are currently trying to set up a R working group at Swansea University.
> I would be very grateful to get some information and feedback from R users
> that have done something similar, in particular regarding:
We started one,but it fell apart after I left the University - first
lesson: you need a critical mass and at least two people who are
prepared to drive it.
>
> - help with giving a general overview of what R is capable of
> - help with what to present or teach (did you organise your own training
> programme or did you get someone from outside?)
We managed with organising it internally, but there were topics, for
which external lecturers were very useful - it depends what expertise
your R userbase has. It is always better to do the training
internally, as then there is always the possibility to go back to the
person who taught the course.
> - are there people out there who would like to present their work to us?
I guess that depends if you are able / willing to at least are
prepared to provide travel expenses and what you expect?
>
> Any help will be highly appreciated!
Welcome - and please fel free to ask more detailed questions. By the
way - there is also a sig R-teach which might also be of help.

Cheers,

Rainer
> Thanks Joanne
>
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> Joanne Demmler Ph.D.
> Research Assistant
> College of Medicine
> Swansea University
> Singleton Park
> Swansea SA2 8PP
> UK
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> fax: ? ? ? ? ? ?+44 (0)1792 513430
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1.  There is a CRAN mirror at Bristol (roughly 100km from 
Swansea?).  They must have (or have had) some very active R users there.


       2.  Sundar Dorai-Raj and I developed a local R Archive Network 
and subversion repository internal to a company where we used to work.  
I believe that made it easier for us to collaborate and to share our 
results with others.  (See "Creating R Packages, Using CRAN, R-Forge, 
And Local R Archive Networks And Subversion (SVN) Repositories", 
available from CRAN -> Documentation:  Contributed.)  This is not the 
first thing you should do, but I believe it can help build local 
collaboration and awareness of R.


       Hope this helps.
       Spencer


On 3/17/2011 6:42 AM, Joanne Demmler wrote:
> Dear R users,
>
> we are currently trying to set up a R working group at Swansea 
> University.
> I would be very grateful to get some information and feedback from R 
> users that have done something similar, in particular regarding:
>
> - help with giving a general overview of what R is capable of
> - help with what to present or teach (did you organise your own 
> training programme or did you get someone from outside?)
> - are there people out there who would like to present their work to us?
>
> Any help will be highly appreciated!
> Thanks Joanne
>