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...If I've missed any groups here, please feel to add on to this message! Los Angeles http://www.meetup.com/LAarea-R-usergroup/ (79 members) May 7th Event: "Four case studies of using R" at 7pm, Boelter Hall, UCLA Presenters: J. Leeuw, R. Gould, & B. Brett-Esborn (UCLA), S. Pafka (Epoch) Organized by Szilard Pafka <spafka at gmail com> San Francisco / Bay Area http://www.meetup.com/R-Users (228 members) May 13th Event: Parallel Computing with R using ParallelR at Microsoft SF HQ Presenter: David M Smith (Revolutions Computing) Organized by Jim Porzak <...

...up.com for posting information related to the meetings. The website also facilitates information exchange between members (discussion board, mailing list etc.) Please sign up in order to receive updates and be able to RSVP for events: http://www.meetup.com/LAarea-R-usergroup/ All the best, Szilard Pafka ----------------------------------------------- Szilard Pafka, Chief Scientist, Epoch Jan de Leeuw, Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics Los Angeles R users group website: http://www.meetup.com/LAarea-R-usergroup/

...he goal of this first meeting is to bring together people of a wide range of interests related to R and to open a forum for discussions and further interaction. Agenda: - Introduction - Using R in research (Jan de Leeuw, UCLA) - Using R in applications related to credit card transactions (Szilard Pafka, Epoch) - Using R in teaching (Rob Gould, UCLA) - Using R in consulting (Brigid Brett-Esborn, UCLA) - Q&A, general discussions - Discussions/networking We plan 15 minutes for each speaker and for the general discussions. Then participants are encouraged to initiate discussions with each other...

...e information on the `useR!' conference is available at http://www.R-project.org/useR-2014 We hope to see you in Los Angeles! The organizing committee: Yunyun Dai, Phil Ender, Jan de Leeuw, David McArthur, Amelia McNamara, Sanjog Misra, Katharine Mullen, Jeroen Ooms, Szilard Pafka, Tim Triche, Joshua Wiley