Hi Pancho,
there are already a bunch of R User Groups around the world:
http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=rugs:r_user_groups
The Revolution Analytics guys has posted some tips on how to found one (
http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/news-events/r-user-group/how-to-start-r-user-group.php)
and they also offer some sponsorship.
What I did here was fairly simple: I wrote a few mails to some some of my
contacts who speak R, also posted some messages on mailing lists and forums
that we should come together. I already got some great feedback, so
hopefully there will be an active Hungarian RUG soon, where we can have
talks, workshops and tutorials on R related topics, or simply to get to
know some other useRs and their field of interest. So it does sounds
exciting indeed, and we will see about the results soon.
And yes: AFAIK R was announced exactly 20 years ago, so that's a great time
to found RUG(s) :)
Best,
Gergely
On 13 August 2013 13:29, Pancho Mulongeni <
p.mulongeni@namibia.pharmaccess.org> wrote:
> Hi Gergely!
> This sounds so exciting - so R is turning 20 years old? How did you set up
> your R users' group? What are the best practices in going about to set
one
> up?
> I would be keen on establishing one here in Windhoek, Namibia.
>
>
> Pancho Mulongeni
> Research Assistant
> PharmAccess Foundation
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